The "Bands you have just discovered" thread

Started by DGMacphee, Sat 08/04/2006 17:57:09

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DGMacphee

Found a band or singer you never knew existed until recently? Doesn't matter if they're an up-and-coming newbie band or an old rocker from ages ago, post your discovery here -- tell us what you found and what you think of them.

For example... Just recently, I discovered Sigur Ros with their latest album Takk. Apparently it's a very popular album with a few tracks legally released online and being swapped around blogs. However, musically, I've been living under a rock for the last few months, so it's a new band for me. And it's very pretty album.

I also recently saw Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah perform on Letterman. Thought the singer was a little "screechy" but then spent a few seconds listening to the actual song and thought, "Hey that's pretty good." Haven't listened to the full album yet, cause at the moment I'm still listening to Takk.

Prior to these, last album I bought was Elbow's Leaders of the Free World back around November. They're one of my favourite bands, so not really a new discovery. But a bloody good album, their best release IMO.

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nihilyst

I once bought the album "In Absentia" from Porcupine Tree, because I liked the cover. I hadn't heard anything of them, and now I'm collecting their other albums. They really have a unique style, that I like.

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Adamski

Sigur Ros are starting to get a lot of attention recently, I've heard them on daytime radio a few times now (which hopefully wont become a habit, good music doesn't deserve the dishonour of being played to death every hour for six months on commercial radio).

If you like them you'll want to check out Jaga Jazzist - What We Must, which is sort of a departure from their previous work and sounds a bit like a hybrid between Sigur Ros and Radiohead. Oh, and then listen to Jaga Jazzist's previous albums too!

Tuomas

Thanks for this goes to Haddas, as he linked me to a video a while ago. The band is called Hinoi Team, it's a Japanese eurobeat band...(don't ask)... and at the very moment me and my friends have formed an unofficial Finnish fan club to this band and I'm trying to create a website for our fanclub aside of the blog in my signature. Some of the peope here can tell you how annoying this is, but it's grerat fun, And these videos I found in the internet, I'veseen them all like 20 times in 6 days!

MrColossal

Peelander-Z and Gelatine

http://www.peelander-z.com/

http://www.gelatine5.com/

saw them both in concert on the same night and while Peelander-Z may not be impressive when you're just listening to an MP3 they are quite awesome live. They had about 10 people from the audience up on stage during the first song and they all were given pots and pans to bang and then they had more than that on stage during the last song and gave their instruments and parts of their costumes out to other people so they could go human bowling in the audience...

Gelatine was just awesome.
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ManicMatt

Sorry, I could never get into a band named after an animal based ingredient.

I never got into Seafood, either.

Evil

Don't mean to pimp a local band, but they'll be up and comming soon enough.

The Metrolites:
http://www.metrolites.com/

"The Metrolites now explore that sound with hints of surf, spy, crime jazz, spaghetti western, rockabilly, sci-fi, noir, and lounge music."

Only one track available online, but the CD is definatly worth the buy if you like spy/lounge music.

Gord10

I have just discovered Lacuna Coil, thanks to Vampire:Bloodlines. I wish I had known it before...
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HillBilly

#9
This is the bands I've been getting into the last few months:

Anal Cunt - Screaming equals music? I think not. I give this band 0.8/26.3 kittens.

Bars - Very cool. Good clean heavy rock. Or perhaps more in the metal genre? The world may never know.

The Berzerker: Most of their songs start out pretty good, but ruins itself by going completely incoherant. Oh death metal, will you ever change?

Dying Fetus: Death metal alá Cannibal Corpse, I would say. And like any other death metal band, the lyrics are useless, since you can't hear what the vocalist is screaming at the top of his lungs.

Lamb of God: Very nice metal. I'll be buying a CD with these guys soon.

Mindless Self Indulgence - I don't know what to think of this band. Can be awesome, but alot of songs is not at all my taste. I guess I'll try a CD soon.

Misfits: Most of what I've illegally downloaded from the internet, was either other bands or very bad recordings. Not impressed this far.

Mudvayne: When at heavy, grand stuff. Can be a bit wimpery at times. "Nothing to Gein" was a pleasant suprise, since I know who this song is all about.

Stormtroopers of Death: Speed Metal, very nice. Too bad it's hard to get any of their CD's.

TISM[This Is Serious Mum]: Takes a bit to get used to their style. First I found it a bit too alternative, but after a few listens I like it.

LGM

You. Me. Denny's.

Paper Carnival

Essence of Sorrow: http://www.myspace.com/essenceofsorrow I found out about this a couple of days ago. It's a nice metal band, not sure what style (somehow power metal)

Firefight: www.purevolume.com/fireflight I found out about this yesterday, it's a "meh" rock band with female vocals.

ManicMatt

Quote from: Gord10 on Sat 08/04/2006 20:32:42
I have just discovered Lacuna Coil, thanks to Vampire:Bloodlines. I wish I had known it before...

They've gotten so popular now that I saw their new album in the asda supermarket charts! I only really like a couple of tracks off their comalies album.

Tiki

Quote from: Adamski on Sat 08/04/2006 18:41:09
If you like them you'll want to check out Jaga Jazzist - What We Must, which is sort of a departure from their previous work and sounds a bit like a hybrid between Sigur Ros and Radiohead. Oh, and then listen to Jaga Jazzist's previous albums too!
Absolutely, positively seconded.

(Also, it should be noted that it has no lead vocals.  Don't be expecting Thom Yorkeish wailing ;))

[Cameron]

Arctic Monkeys, Icarus Line, Squarepusher and Prince. All great. LISTEN NOW!

auhsor

Marillion

They have been around for 20 years now, but I've only just heard of them, and they have quickly become one of my favourite bands. They had a (cheesy 80's love song) hit called Kayleigh in the late 80's, but a few years later after a change of singer they moved out of the public spotlight. In the last 10 years or so, they pioneered a concept of letting fans preorder the new album before it was recorded to raise the needed money to record the album.

They play progressive kind of music, that has changed a bit over the years. I havn't heard all their stuff (they have about 14 studio albums), but the first album I heard (and the latest one), Marbles, is simply amazing. every song on it is great, and I find it hard to name any weaknesses to the album. It's got variety from a couple of more poppy sounding songs to an 18 minute masterpiece. In fact 3 of the songs on the (double version of the) album clock in at over 10 minutes. Do what I did and download the album to give it a go... I ended up buying $200 of their music/dvd's after hearing the album and being so impressed by it.

Tuomas

Aushor, I also have Marbles, and I must say having heard the early ones with Fish still singing, I wasn't really that impressed. From the times of Kayleigh etc Marillion was one of the best prog bands there was. If you liked Marbles, I suggest you to immediately go and buy them or at least give them a listen. My personal favorite is Misplaced Childhood, which also has Kayleigh in it....

Or you could listen to an awesome compilation here http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=233

I'm just selling out one of my favorite bands here ;D

auhsor

Hehe well I have had a bit of a listen to some of the Fish stuff. I did listen to Misplaced Childhood, but wasn't overly impressed. I'll have to listen to it again, because I'll probably get into it then, but I still maintain that Marbles is a great album.

Rincewind

I have recently started getting into a lot of obscure as well as not-so-obscure late 70's/early 80's post-punk and similar stuff, so I've been getting into a lot of The Comsat Angels, ("Sleep no more", 1982 - Brilliant album) The Sound, Tuxedomoon, Teardrop Explodes, Chrome, etc... A lot of good stuff.
Also started listening to quite a lot of the old jazz-classics - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus... I had a world of good music I'd missed out on there. :)

Helm

Tuxedo Moon were good, yeah.

Listen to Gorguts - Obscura and The Ocean - Here where Nothing Grows and Mare - Mare ep and Nomeansno - Wrong and anything by J. Hellborg.
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DGMacphee

Adam,

I checked out that Jaga Jazzist album. Like them a lot but you mentioned What We Must was a departure to their prior stuff. How so? What's their old stuff like?

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MrColossal

I just went to see the Dresden Dolls in concert and the 2 opening acts were pretty cool.

Reverend Glasseye was the first http://www.reverendglasseye.com/ and they were neat.

But then Golem came on http://www.golemrocks.com/ and they pretty much musically made love to me and left a twenty on the dresser.
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LGM

#26
Ever heard of The Kabalas, Eric?

The lead vocalist from the band Evil mentioned, The Metrolites, was the lead for The Kabalas back in the 90's. Evil and I are actually collaborating with him to design and shoot the cover for their next album, "For the People."

You can listen to their first album on CD Baby

If you visit their homepage linked to the side, you can see some of my photography down the page a bit.
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ManicMatt

Oh yes Dresden dolls release their new album soon in America! Me buy import yesiree! I hope it's got more faster songs on it this time. Too many slow songs kinda get to me after a while. Still, think I'll put that on my mp3 player for 2mrw at work!

auhsor

I had a listen to The Metrolites lgm, and they sounded really cool. I'm considering buying their album now.

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magintz

I recently stumbled upon an artist on VH1 I think called Orson. No idea if anyone has heard of them or how old / popular they are, I'm guessing as it's VH1 it was probably a few years ago and not all to popular.

Anyway the singer has a pretty good voice and it's a nice steady easy listening kind of music, not usually what i go for... quite catchy though; I recommend it.
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FruitTree

yesterday I went to see 'archie bronson outfit'
a friend of mine called me up and said I had to see this band, that it's exactly my cup of tea.
so I went and I must say I was blown away! this band mixes modern rock & roll and stoner rock with psychadelic 70s rock! it was awesome!
and they all have beards wich is also awesome!

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[Cameron]

I just got into some Autechre stuff. Really ace, heard them on a Tool programmed RAGE.

Timosity

#35
Just got back from seeing The Living End http://thelivingend.com/

I've seen them many many times over the last decade, first saw em in the front bar of a pub for free in 1995, now you pay much more and have thousands in the crowd at bigger venues, I'm not sure which I prefer, usually the less crowded, but this gig they played for 1hr 45 mins and I wanted it to go on longer even though I was busting for a piss most of the gig.

They play all over the world so if you ever get the chance, I would recommend going, awesome live show, easily one of the best live bands in the world. (They're on the Warped tour in July/August for any one in the USA)


probably a bit off topic anyway, but the new Chili Peppers double album is awesome, took me a while to get into it, seeing as finding the time to listen to over 2hrs of music many times over takes quite a while, but it really grows on you. They are an incredible band.

One of the best bands ever that no one has heard of, or probably ever will again as they split up about 10 years ago, is The Fireballs, who were a Heavy Psychobily band from Melbourne. (no, not the old rock 'n' roll swing band)

The best thing about them was the fact having a Double Bass in a Heavy band makes them heavier than any band Ever, none of this loosen the bass strings shit, you really have to hear a double bass in a metal band to appreciate how good it can sound, deeper and darker than bliss, especially with the click of a slapping a double bass.

The guys also had pretty big Quiffs (extremely exaggerated Elvis hair) much like the Leningrad Cowboys who I've noticed someone has an avatar with possibly one of the members

MashPotato

A thread bump to proclaim the greatness that is DeVotchKa ^_^.  Their music has been described as mariachi-folk-punk-gypsy, which sounds odd, but is also a pretty good description.  Take a listen to a few of their songs from their new CD: http://www.myspace.com/devotchkamusic

veryweirdguy

It's funny that this thread's been bumped as I just found a new band I quite like myself:

www.myspace.com/theroyalhighness

Kind of QOTSAish, if you're into that sort of thing. Four songs available there, and a few more available on their website!

GarageGothic

#38
Gogol Bordello was probably the best act I saw at the Roskilde Festival. It's gypsy punk and in fact not too far from the klezmer music of Golem, that MrColossal linked to or DeVotchKa, which MashPotato posted about. They're currently touring Europe so keep an eye out for them. I'm going to see them again in Bologna next month.

My other favorite band from Roskilde was the indie rock band The Editors who aren't quite as good on cd as they were live.

Helm

A band you can do worse than checking out is also Gojira.
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