What Bands Do You Believe Need A Little Recognition?

Some of the Bands that I have been listening to recently that arent "Big Time"

Arcade Fire - If you ever have the chance to see them live, you should. Funeral is a great album.
Spoon
The Wrens
Bloc Party
Blonde Redhead
Les Savy Fav
Comets on Fire
McLusky
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Sleater Kinney

The most underrated group still performing that deserves to get more love:
Built to Spill
 
[quote name='Mr Unoriginal']Brassy
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I need to add Brassy to my list as well. Hell, the Jon Spencer BLues Explosion needs to be there too.
 
I see several votes for the Toadies here...they no longer exist.

Same for Soul Coughing, a band I sadly lament and had the chance to see many times. Fantastic. Although M Doughty (frontman) is releasing a new solo lp this week called Haughty Melodic. I've seen him do all these tracks live acoustic many many times, and you just can't describe his unique brand of shuffling white boy folk rock beat poetry "small rock" .

I also see Slowdive mentioned - another defunct band...try some My Bloody Valentine on for size. Or maybe check out Adorable's Against Perfection - a fantastic creation era shoegaze band that was terribly overlooked. Rachel Goswel and Neil Halstead went on to form Mojave 3. Another fantastic band that is very much so less shoegazey and very much more Nick Drake / Gram Parsons.

A few others I agree with or would like to add to the list...

M83 - Explosions in the Sky with bit-tones is a pretty good description

Black Moth Super Rainbow - indescribable loopy weirdness based around vintage synth and moog tones. think early 70's sci fi shoved into the next millenium...

The Appleseed Cast - My current fave and I champion these guys every chance I get. The early catalog is shades of Sunny Day Real Estate...but somewhere along their career, something wonderful happened and they became this fantastic ambient trippy dreamy guitar band. Waves of washed out delay bring to mind thoughts of shoegaze, but the intertwining melodies shove this out ahead of the pack. Mid career they released a 2 cd set of a single body of work. Low Level Owl Vol. 1 and Vol 2. You can buy these seperately, but I highly recommend purchasing both and listening to it as a whole. Beautiful and shimmering guitar based ambience.

I could write about this all day, but my boss would probably kick my ass. More later.
 
[quote name='MrBadExample']Just because a band doesn't exist anymore doesn't mean that they don't deserve more recognition.[/QUOTE]

Point well taken. Admittedly I was merely trying to suggest that if you love this, you might also love "this" - although in retrospect it does come across rather harsh.
 
[quote name='daikaiju']Point well taken. Admittedly I was merely trying to suggest that if you love this, you might also love "this" - although in retrospect it does come across rather harsh.[/QUOTE]

I didn't take it harshly, and I appreciate the recommendations.
 
inkubus sukkubus

lacuna coil

rachael sage

sugarcubes (well, bjork is huge but her old group should have been bigger)

siouxse and the banshees (I think they're still around as "the creatures', but I haven't bought any of their new cd's)

Ani Difranco (depends on where, some places she's big others she's ignored)

sopor aeternus (if you ever wanted reasons to kill yourself, this would be a good place to
start)

Liz Stahler

Immortal Technique

Mephisto Walz

Diva Destruction


edit: I would just like to point out I have my first ignore ever, projecteightysix.
 
[quote name='WeaponX2099']The Roots, Common, Nas, Talib Kweli, Postal Service [/QUOTE]

Aw come on, you're not even trying anymore!

He's my favorite musician ever, but fuck man, Talib Kweli has even been mentioned in Jay-Z's Moment of Clarity.
And Nas? He was as mainstream as it gets back when Stillmatic hit.
 
Man, I don't understand how some of you are getting these responses.

Go buy XM radio. My music collection has expanded so damn much because of it.
 
[quote name='thatstoobad']rocket from the crypt.

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HOLY SHIT IM NOT THE ONLY FAN OF NN2S, MITCH CLEM IS A GOD!
 
[quote name='Scorch']You seriously didn't know he was dead?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/22/obit.elliott.smith.ap/

Why are people naming mainstream bands.. stuff that gets solid radioplay like Snow Patrol, Cake (you can't be serious if you think they're new), Kings of Leon, Postal Service.. they're all getting radio play.

Dream Theatre's pretty cool.[/QUOTE]

Umm I never suggested that Cake was a new band, but frankly most people I know have not heard of them. Most kids at my school do not know of postal service, kings of leon, snow patrol, or any of the others I named. They may get airplay on alternative stations but none of them are getting MTV recognition, at least not yet.
 
[quote name='Rich']Man, I don't understand how some of you are getting these responses.

Go buy XM radio. My music collection has expanded so damn much because of it.[/QUOTE]


But if most people don't know the band, or they have just heard of them but never really listened, then that's all that counts. Whether you can get it on xm or not, they could still use more exposure.
 
There's an awesome Metalcore band called
It Dies Today
Anyone who likes really good metalcore with choruses should check em out. I saw em open for Bleeding Through about 4 months ago and have been hooked ever since. I've turned numerous people into fans already. Buy or download The Caitiff Choir, it's one of my favorite albums now.

They're performing on Ozzfest second stage this year so they'll probably be pretty big after that touring, but do yourself a favor and check em out!
 
[quote name='bil4l']There's an awesome Metalcore band called
It Dies Today
Anyone who likes really good metalcore with choruses should check em out. I saw em open for Bleeding Through about 4 months ago and have been hooked ever since. I've turned numerous people into fans already. Buy or download The Caitiff Choir, it's one of my favorite albums now.

They're performing on Ozzfest second stage this year so they'll probably be pretty big after that touring, but do yourself a favor and check em out![/QUOTE]

It Dies Today is awesome. I don't have muhc of their songs, but what I do have is really good.
 
Mahjongg
Deerhoof
Mouse on Mars
Mum
Mice Parade
Stereolab(well, they could always use a little more)
Lightning Bolt
Themselves
Any anticon
All natural
the Boredoms
OOIOO
Savath and Savalas
Sunburned hand of the man

as if any of them will ever get it...
 
[quote name='Scorch']You seriously didn't know he was dead?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/22/obit.elliott.smith.ap/

Why are people naming mainstream bands.. stuff that gets solid radioplay like Snow Patrol, Cake (you can't be serious if you think they're new), Kings of Leon, Postal Service.. they're all getting radio play.

Dream Theatre's pretty cool.[/QUOTE]

Actually most of the ones you've listed Scorch do not recieve any airplay at all where I live. Not one bit, so i would agree that they should be more widely known. I'd rather hear Cake playin' on the radio than Ashley Simpson 3 times in the same hour (this was when I actually listened to the radio here). Same goes for Snow Patrol, Postal Service, and Kings of Leon. The radio stations in my area didn't even want to play the Killers, a home town band, until they suddenly got big and had a lot more exposure. I was digging them for at least 7 months before they had their first video.

Again I must say that 95% of the people at my schools probably don't know who these are.

Edit: Updated the front list with random stuff that people said.
 
Cake
Toad the Wet Sprocket(kinda had some success but not enough IMO)
Seven Mary Three
A Tribe Called Quest
They Might Be Giants
Ben Folds Five
Nickel Creek
 
Disturbed, SOAD(I know I know, but just a little bit more), [Rap Sux], Cake definately, [Rap Sux], and...ummmm I can't really think of anything else...
 
[quote name='Rich']Mars Volta and Jedi Mind Tricks have a shitload of recognition, and the Arcade Fire has been on the rise as of late.

As for me, I'd go with The Foreign Exchange[/QUOTE]

Yeah... most of the bands people have listed have had some sort of recognition. But jesus, the arcade fire? There goddamn music video is on MTV plus everyone knows about them. Yes they are good, but don'tdeserve more recognition.

I can't think of any bands besides Animal Collective that deserve recognition. Even they are fairly well known.

Also cLOUDDEAD and espcially Doseone deserve more recognition. Amazing experimental rap and shiz... 200 page album.

edit; foreign exchange does... i thought i read madvillian for some reasone. :)
 
Defiance, Ohio
Ghost Mice
The Lillingtons
Atom and his Package
Blacktop Cadence
Rumbleseat
I Farm
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb
 
[quote name='arsenalgear']Atom and his Package
[/QUOTE]

Poor Atom retired I think. I used to see him all the time before he blew up (lame saying I know, but he is from near me).
 
is I Farm still around? i remember seeing them at my first basement show like...7 or 8 years ago!

anyways, you suckers better recognize decibully.
 
any band with warren haynes, he works his ass of for a good four of em:
The Dead
Allman Brothers
Govt Mule
Warren Haynes Band
 
[quote name='Mr. Anderson']Your gonna have a hard time gettin' yer hands on this one, but Atmosphere is the best fucking rapper on earth.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah Atmosphere is from Minneapolis so there well known around here, I think it's fairly easy to get their stuff here.
 
I don't know what I think about this question. I think I'd love for all my favorite bands to get big, but at the same time I don't, because then I have to deal with stupid people listening to them and championing them. Its sickening sometimes. Anyways, I suppose I have a few:

Bear vs Shark
Mates of State
The Fall of Troy
Minus the Bear.
 
Heard of a new one today, In-Decline (not sure if this is how you spell it).

Also another band that needs to have more recognition is Mag-ni-fi (I believe this is how you spell it).

There both awesome.
 
[quote name='Rich']Aw come on, you're not even trying anymore!

He's my favorite musician ever, but fuck man, Talib Kweli has even been mentioned in Jay-Z's Moment of Clarity.
And Nas? He was as mainstream as it gets back when Stillmatic hit.[/QUOTE]

I'm in Chicago, I don't hear Kweli (except Get By) on the Radio period. Today was the first time I heard Postal Service on Regular Radio (meaning not on the station that play everything you can thing of). Nas is mainstream (Not saying that) but here he get less play than Chingy and Cassidy. It 's like now all rap stations here decide that will play nothing but Southern Rap and G-Unit.
 
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