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Your Local Music Makers
WicketW.Warrick
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So this is a thread where dudes can post some bands that is local to them and (hopefully) good music. I'm from Iceland so I'll post some Icelandic bands.
Let's get rid of all the obvious crap. Sigur Rós are great and Björk too sometimes.
Brain Police - They are a pretty good stoner rock band.
Trabant - Are great if you're looking for electronic sexymusic that is only about making love.
Quarashi - Maybe some have heard of them, they were in some video game and some movie trailers or something a few years back, they were (band split up) a rap, some rock, band. Pretty good.
Retro Stefson - It's a rising band in Iceland, they sound like some sort of Indie, Soul, Latin something. I am watching these guys closely.
Now you guys share!
Let's get rid of all the obvious crap. Sigur Rós are great and Björk too sometimes.
Brain Police - They are a pretty good stoner rock band.
Trabant - Are great if you're looking for electronic sexymusic that is only about making love.
Quarashi - Maybe some have heard of them, they were in some video game and some movie trailers or something a few years back, they were (band split up) a rap, some rock, band. Pretty good.
Retro Stefson - It's a rising band in Iceland, they sound like some sort of Indie, Soul, Latin something. I am watching these guys closely.
Now you guys share!
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Gravity Kills
Jars of Clay
Modern Day Zero
St. Lunatics
Stir
Story of the Year
Wilco
The Urge
O, and
Chuck Berry
Miles Davis
Scott Joplin
Leonard Slatkin
Tina Turner
St. Louis has a pretty damn good music scene.
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http://www.myspace.com/oxidizerband
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_High_School_(St._Louis)
chuck barry and tina turner went to the same damn high school
black high school musical all up ins
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Oh, and Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional) was born here.
http://myspace.com/4point0ny
This is the friends' ska band
http://theactionband.com/
This is another band they played with this summer
The Action is pretty good, and my opinion on 4point0 is obviously biased
There's Fashion Bomb who are pretty fucking terrible in general. They're opening for TKK this weekend though, so they popped into my mind.
Project .44
Those are a few of the smaller industrial acts from around here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Connecticut_musicians
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I loves me some John Mayer
So is the use of horns the only thing that make them a "ska" band? The only song that actually shows any influence of true ska music is Sweet Tomorrow on that page and even then as soon as they get into the chorus all that goes out the window. Jesus Christ I fucking hate what modern music has done to ska.
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Just throw on some Euro Ska and take a deep breath.... They're the real deal over there.
That's true. Actually the ska band I recently found that I've been listening to the most lately is Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. Not only are they awesome ska, but their broken English makes everything so hilarious.
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Is this supposed to be a knockoff of Metro Station?
If it is I love that name.
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As for recent stuff? There's this guy, I lived about ten minutes from him for a while. Eric Church
This little jukebox thingy has a couple of his songs on it, I particularly like Sinners Like Me. It's the third one. Songs you won't like. Oh, I should mention that it's country before you guys waste time clicking those links.
Also, Cap, how do you feel about The Specials?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iW0zL2LI0
Great Big Sea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsXi0zBzoc
Hey Rosetta!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voimb846cSU
I mean I don't mind if Americans do it, but man..
How do I feel about the Specials?! Basically I feel like, after original ska spawned reggae and rocksteady, it was pushed to the back of the bus until the Specials came along, revolutionized the sound and started what is known in Ska History as The Two-Tone Revolution, giving to us many many awesome ska bands like The Toasters, Bim Skala Bim, The Slackers, etc. etc. Basically, I love the Specials.
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I got to meet them once back in..uhh I don't actually remember, but they were awesome dudes.
With this I go rummaging through hundreds of old CDs for the goodies you just reminded me of.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9dWMhSJq0c&feature=related
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http://www.agreymedium.com
http://www.myspace.com/agreymedium
One was The Jazzabelles. They were kind of a soft-rock/alternative group. I actually met them once. They were very nice ladies. They only made two albums. I feel stupid for not remembering the name of the first one. I think it was called Café All Day, and the second one was called Skyway. Eventually, one got married, and music became sparser, and then the other one got married, and they dropped the band altogether.
There was also Kilbrannan. They made two CDs as well. One was called Bedlam Boys and the other was Live at O'Lacy's. Sailor songs, folk songs, drinking songs. Acoustic and rock-ish. The band split several years ago into the following two:
Stone Row. It's folk music, only with a friggin' electric guitar. I've only heard a little bit of their music, but it's pretty rad.
And my most favoritest band of all from Buffalo: Penny Whiskey. Sailor songs, folk songs, drinking songs. All acoustic, except for the electric bass. Have you ever heard an Irish jig played at top speed on an electric bass? No? Well that makes you stupid. If you want to hear an Irish jig played at top speed on and electric bass, go buy Size Doesn't Matter. While you're at it, buy Half Corked.
Edit: Beavo, Great Big Sea is one of the best bands out there.<3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW6PUZptnHE
As far as local music goes for me, a few bands have come from my town. Some names of bands are Death Cab For Cutie, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Marcy Playground. I don't know, you may have heard of them.
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I can't argue with that
Sirens Sister
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I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness is not only the best band name ever, but has a very nice um, ever so slightly goth rock sound.
The Toadies are from Dallas, and so is Course of Empire(who are no longer together), but both have some awesome music.
Dude Aaron's voice is incredible. Admittedly it didn't sound the greatest on their earlier albums, but he sounds fucking awesome on the latest one. I love that band to death and I'm seeing them again in Portland on the 18th. I can't wait. Last time I saw them, he reached into the crowd and held my hand on 5 different occasions and I could have just died.
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Big Trouble in Little China
He's a pretty cool guy. Eh, once made a guitar in the shape of the Krull blade and doesn't afraid of anything.
Warbringer - Combat Shock
www.myspace.com/warbringer
sick-ass retro thrash band from my town, signed to century media. total old-school thrash worship. i've seen them live and met most of the band, they put on a hell of a show. When they started playing Total War I just went fuckin' nuts and didn't stop until the show ended three hours later.
Their covers are a lot closer to actual ska
I don't know
I enjoy the hell out of it anyway
So, so sorry
8-)
Oh fuck one doesn't even exist.