I thought it would be cool to have a thread where people post websites of local bands they know or bands that are good but not well known.
I want you to hear this band from outside my town. They are called Caffiene and they are awesome. Except they like Avril. Anyway, here is their site and here are three of their mp3s that fucking rule. You must listen to them.

Your turn...

i gots a band!

http://www.thehentais.cjb.net

we's be the shit!

The Hentais are pretty fucking good.

I belonged to The The's.

I used to play the Triangle. Then we all overdosed on heroin. It was a fun two hours.

when's your vh1 special gonna be?

It already happened.

http://www.stripcreator.com/forums/showthread.php?postnum=118175&forum=7

5 Across the Face

http://www.5atf.com

The lead singer sounds chinese, but he's not. The bass guitarist grew up with me.

I just clicked the link and it doesn't work. Sorry about that. I'll check with Jeff and see if they have a new website or just gave up.

I don't know if these guys are any good, but they're from mah town n stuff.

here's a little-known band from CA. don't know if anyone's heard of 'em or not. :D

seriously, though, a great band I've been listening to alot lately is Tito & Tarantula, you'd have to be a fan of From Dusk Til' Dawn & Desperado to know them.

My friends in Philly:

Noosphere

They're sponsored by Jaegermeister, and hopefully blowing up soon.

Love Santa or Brain on Drugs. They are the best band ever but they can't decide on a name. It's either love santa or brain on drugs though. they totally kick ass. they don't have a website though.

I have a band called Skatology. We're a death-metal/skat band. It's like:

DUM DUDDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUD DUM

and then our singer Mark goes:
Skiddly bop doo bop bop day-um day! Ooodoo!

we rock. we have a song called "Androgony of the President's Daughter" and "The N Word is Nordstroms" and "Cocks."

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Read. I'm sending some for the cd swap.

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Love Santa or Brain on Drugs. They are the best band ever but they can't decide on a name. It's either love santa or brain on drugs though. they totally kick ass. they don't have a website though.

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The Disco Biscuits (preferrably a live album) are an up-and-coming "jam" band (though "jam" doesn't mean much anymore) that is influencing the way electronic music and rock are merging in a concert setting. I'd also recommend Keller Williams, a great 10-string guitarist that plays with loop machines and can just play a mean, percussive, fast, kottke-esque guitar while singing pretty country/bluegrass-ish melodies with some good hooks.

And of course: Medeski, Martin, and Wood. They're pretty famous in the jazz world, but I think they appeal to anyone who likes a good groove.

The Disco Biscuits

Keller Williams

MMW

Just the first three pretty unknown-yet-amazing bands/mans that came into my head.

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lets all brag about what band were in!!! YA KNOW!

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lets all brag about what kind of band were in!!! YA KNOW! (the other one i said wrong)

Part Chimp!

They're on Rock Action records...I downloaded the album...the only mp3 you can get of thiers from thier site is Iron Pond...

anyway, they're like a garage rock band like Hot Snakes.

Real good.

You probably haven't heard of the grand majority of these bands, and most of 'em are pretty damn good (see especially Groovy Little Numbers, Bob, Dentists, Razorcuts, and Talulah Gosh). Unfortunate thing is: Most of 'em broke up at least 10 years ago.

Also good are Accrington Stanley (not the footy club) and most of the bands on Matinee Records (especially The Pines, Harper Lee, and Sportique).

I love hunting down incredibly obscure bands in that constant search for that incredible rush a great pop song can bring.

I'm including some tracks from some of the local Omaha bands on my swap CD.

A lot of bands that are making it big are coming out of Omaha NE. It would be kind of cool if one of the relatively unknown bands I see from time to time in the bar I go to after work were on MTV one day.

A friend of mine is in a band Called Mexican Elvis.

They call their music "retard rock". I guess only retards like me can like it. :)

Here's some great bands that aren't me. (yes, they exist.)

The Locust is the best band ever.

And now a few local bands:

Gojeera
Existing Away
Unlimited Refills
Dimensional Care Unit
Bomerman Awesome

And of course....

Tobor. Rest in peace, Tobor. :(

visit MTpunk.com for more examples of great montana bands. we hicks can rock out too!

Cousin Joey

Still unsigned, still sounding like the bastard sons of Sum 41 and Blink 182, and some slappers from Maldon, Essex.

I also heart heart HEART the Mendoza Line. They have a couple of mp3s here.

If the Mekons were American and less political, they'd be the Mendozas.

I like Rene Heartfelt. Go Richmond!

A pretty good band called: Story of the Year is a band no one has really heard of ..... maybe.

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this first one has quite a following, so you've probably already heard of it:

http://www.neutralmilkhotel.net/

this second one, however, belongs to a couple friends of mine, but their website is so new it's essentially empty:

http://www.category-5.net/

oh yeah, here's one you probably haven't heard of that's kind of like modest mouse meets pink floyd:

http://www.mogwai.co.uk/

A band I like (graykane, if you like the Elephant 6 sound, check these guys out):
The Decemberists

My old band mates new band (if you like the Cramps mixed with Brainiac):
CockFight

Beautiful Nerd Rock Theatre:
Capturedbyrobots.com

Graykane....i LOVE neutral milk hotel. omg.

Also...there's a freaking awesome band called Thin Lizard Dawn. They sound kinda beach rock-ish. Love em to death.

Here's a list of some of my favorite bands:

-Pretty Girls Make Graves
-Appleseed Cast
-The French Kicks
-HorrorPops
-The Faint

Hooray for good music!

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http://www.mogwai.co.uk/

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The Sadies are awsome. See them live if you can. Their live performance is unbelieveable.

http://www.thesadies.net/

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Pff! A girl I went out with for a bit plays cello for Mogwai when they play live (or at least she did when I knew her).

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Earlimart

Story of the Year is pretty famous anyway.

Have you ever heard of Skinny Puppy? I've not found a link to any of their stuff yet but they are awesome. Their music makes you feel drugged.

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Have you ever heard of Skinny Puppy? I've not found a link to any of their stuff yet but they are awesome. Their music makes you feel drugged.

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Just wanted to let everybody know that I'm going to concert tommorrow!!! A Static Lullaby, Beloved, Taken, and one more band is playing! Hehe... =D

Haha.

I find humour in how you recommended mogwai to us.

Go find an old music thread that has something along the lines of "The 10 songs you listened to most this summer".

More than half of us have at least 1 mogwai song listed.

Here's an alphabetical list of bands you should all listen to but really don't get any exposure at all(ones with asterisks are post-rock[like mogwai]:

Against me!
American analog set*
And you will know us by the trail of dead
Appleseed Cast*
Arab Strap*
Archers of Loaf
As Friends Rust
Avail
Azure Ray*
Bardo Pond*
Boards of Canada*
Botch
Brian Eno*
Bright Calm Blue
Calla*
Death From Above
Diagonah*
Divit
Do Make Say Think*
Drive Like Jehu
Explosions in the Sky*
Fugazi
Godspeed you! Black emperor*
Her Space Holiday*
Hot Snakes
Hot Water Music
I killed the prom queen
Indian Summer
Kaki King
Looper
Minus The Bear*
Nation of Ulysses
Nevertheless
No Knife
Orchid
Part Chimp
Rocket From The Crypt
Ron Hawkins
Saetia
Sharks Keep Moving*
Sigur Ros*
Small Brown Bike
Snapcase
Sorry About Dresden
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
The Album Leaf*
The Casket Lottery
The Fucking Champs*
The Good Life
The Mercury Program*
The Rosenbergs
These Arms are Snakes
Turning Point

Oh god, someone pointed me to this site the other day, and I've been eternally grateful:

Etree's audio archive

It's a database of live shows from various bands. There are too many awesome ones on there to mention, but you'll need SHN and/or FLAC codecs for Winamp to listen to the songs, and some kind of program to convert the files to .wav if you want to burn them to a disc. Necessary codecs and programs can be found by searching around on that site, or going here and looking around.

The files are huge (up to 1.6-7 gigs for 1 show), but they're lossless recording, and you can just burn the shows to discs, then delete the source files from your computer. Lots of different musical styles on there, but there is a focus on bands that like to jam... because those are the bands that want people to hear their live show for free. Most shows are recorded by tapers who trade shows, usually through a microphone setup (but be on the lookout for soundboard shows; they're great sounding) and give the feel of a concert pretty well. Bands trip thinks you should give a listen on there:
Disco Biscuits, Keller Williams, String Cheese Incident, DJ Logic (awesome awesome awesome live show), Sound Tribe Sector 9, Yonder Mountain String Band, Rusted Root (not great jammers, though), Addison Groove Project, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Derek Trucks Band (Duane Allman's successor-- probably a better guitar player, too).

Ok, there is a lot of stuff on there that is worth listening to.

Thanks for reminding me of that site, Trip--I haven't been there in a while.

Here's what I'm downloading from that site even as I type this:

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (with impromptu Greyboy Allstars reunion!) recorded at the venue I always see them at!

fIREHOSE!

Soul Coughing!

Mike Doughty!

Ben Kweller!