^yup

fave bands of the now are as follows - ->-bleeped-<-ed Up, Government Issue, Hot Snakes, Slobberbone, Richard Buckner. but tbh they're all pretty well known on the independent/punk music scene

not bands but I'm really into glitch which is like a cross between drum n bass and dubstep with a little hip hop influence. some artists I like - edIT, boreta, dj ooah, kraddy, bassnectar, vibesquad, krafty kuts. also I like a lot of minimal techno like trentemoller, ellen allien, apparat, tipper. but then again most people I know aren't really into electronic music so that might be why I don't know anyone who's heard of them.

to the person who said lacuna coil - check out kidneythieves, I think they have a pretty similar sound and they're pretty dank. a lot of the bands mentioned here I haven't heard of though

The kidney snatchers

And Damaged Goods; you know a band is obscure when you can't find their lyrics online.

We've been playing a lot of The Lewd at work lately.  They are on Killed By Death Records.

lots of bands i like are either

a) unknown, or
b) disliked

by people with more "normal" or mainstream tastes. which is ok, because lotsa well-known or mainstream bands are quite unknown and/or disliked by me. people who buy and listen to music because someone else likes it, are insane!!!!!!!

-ell

no one i KNOW has heard of? hrmmm... that's a bit of an odd one, cos a lot of the bands i love are obscure, but most people i know have heard of them since they are local... whatever

you guys won't have heard of them

Orbis
Sedition
Metalurgy
The Kidney Thieves
The Dead
Alchemist
Sakkuth
1989


actually there's on that maybe fits the question better:
Die Krupps
I should really read some german history to get what their lyrics are about, i speak a moderate amout of german so i get a fair few of the actual words, but all i know about the history i know from Laibach (actually that's another good one for the list) and movies

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Quote from: Janah on June 29, 2009, 11:48:02 PM
Dragonforce
Freedom Call

Droagoforce aren't that obscure, at least not among metal-heads, can't say i like them much though. They seem to confuse souding impressive with sounding good, all they do is play stupidly fast, i think they need chipmunk vocals to match. No way i could play like that, but i don't think i'd want to.

But hey -if you like them good for you, you'd probably hate a fair bit of what i like.

Just recently, I started listening to Passion Pit and The Presets...I don't know anyone else that has heard of them.  Oh, and Hunter Revenge...although Hunter is the bassist for AFI, so their fans have heard of them.

Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles

I actually met Ms. Champagne after she gave a performance in a small record store in Burlingame, CA, in the early 90's.

Invertigo

They made like one album...

Iron Tit

Heather Alexander: Folk/ Filk

Heather Alexander - Fairy Queen

Alexander james Adams (Heather Alexander after transition.. yep.. he's a brother   )

ALEXANDER ADAMS IN CONCERT AT RAINFURREST2008 PT10

and Pentangle: a British folk/Jazz group from the 60's & 70's

Pentangle - Travelling Song

Well a local band that I like is Bobnoxious. Very cool stuff, especially the holiday songs 

But the one that I don't think many people have heard about yet, and I think should know about, is "Them Crooked Vultures". They haven't released anything yet but it's gonna be great when they do. The band consists of Josh Homme on vocals and guitar (Queens of the Stone Age), Dave Grohl on drums (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and John Paul Jones on Bass (Led Zeppelin!!)

This is all that we've seen from them aside from 14 second viral videos from small shows in Europe.

Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I (Studio)

"Get Well Soon" a German Band with solid if eclectic musical roots starting to make waves in Europe. No pun intended.


Get Well Soon - Listen! Those Lost At Sea Sing A Song On...

LL&R

Maebh.

PS I am not biased even if Paul, the drummer in the band and mechanic in the video, is my daughter's boyfriend.

Romeo Void

Debora Iyall is a goddess to me, I loved them, Never Say Never is one of my all time favorite songs, so creepy.  And if we're going to fish from that pond, how 'bout Pearl Harbor and the Explosions.

I might like you better if we slept together.

If time itself was his demeanor
There'd be no sunlight or a glimmer
Of sunlight landin on the street
Sunsuit girls must be discreet
Sunsuit girls must be discreet
Nursing their fathers locked inside
They masqueraded as his bride

I might like you better
If we slept together
But there's somethin
In your eyes that says
Maybe that's never
Never say never

The slump by the courthouse
With windburn skin
That man could give a <not allowed>
About the grin on your face
As you walk by, randy as a goat
He's sleepin on papers
When he'd be warm in your coat

I might like you better
If we slept together
But there's somethin
In your eyes that says
Maybe that's never
Never say never

There's no easy way to lose your sight
On the street, on the stairs
Who's on your flight
Old couple walks by, as ugly as sin
But he's got her and she's got him

Never say never

I'm not surprised you're a Debora Iyall/Romeo Void fan. But if this thread was called "Your favorite bands that Tekla has never heard of," there'd be very few posts indeed.

I loved a band around that time called Translator, they were out of LA, did a song called Everywhere That I'm Not.  Other good ones too.

And where you live has a lot to do with it, growing up and living in SF and the Bay Area you get a lot more exposure to that stuff, than you would in other places - or if you were in New York, you'd have a whole bunch of other bands that were good, but never really made it out of the region.

Tricky Pixie - out of Portland, OR                          Betsy,                              Sooj,     and Alec..

Tricky Pixie - Firebird's Child - Faerieworlds 2008

I've heard Split Enz and the Polecats, but it's been a while...