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Best Bands Nobody Has Ever Heard of

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generaladm;1408566; said:
Great thread! I had been meaning to start a local music thread for awhile.

There are quite a few good bands in the Cinci area. The two which seem to be on the cusp of hitting it big are Buffalo Killers, and Heartless Bastards.

Buffalo Killers were formed after the breakup of Thee Shams, and are a bluesy three piece rock and roll band. They have toured extensively opening for The Black Keys, and have gotten write ups in Rolling Stone and other national mags.

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Heartless Bastards are propelled by the powerful voice of singer and guitarist Erika Wenerstrom, and play straight ahead rock. They have made a big splash at SXSW, and appeared on Letterman last week.

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Yea, Cincinnati! I've seen both bands in their native setting, at The Southgate House.

My favorite Cincy band I've heard recently is The Bad Veins. Distorted vocals--sort of in the same vein as Death Cab for Cutie, I guess. Nothing earth-shattering, but I like them just fine.

Another Cincy-linked favorite is anything involving Greg Dulli, former front man for the Afghan Whigs (who were fucking awesome). The Twilight Singers is his mainstay, not so much a "band" as a rotating group of musicians de jure, with Dulli constantly at the helm. More recently, he's been doing stuff with Mark Lanagan under the name The Gutter Twins. Some of the stuff is pretty good, but I was disappointed by Saturnalia, their first full-length release, given that other stuff they'd done together in the past was just so damn good.
 
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Muck;1409982; said:
The Beat Farmers
80s-early 90's San Diego
There will never be a band that is more fun to go see live.
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Pitchfork was another great San Diego band from about that time.

Other obscure bands:

Warlock Pinchers - described by their own label (Boner Records) as "truly strange and truly retarded Satanic kung-fu hip hop noise...."

Steel Pole Bathtub - Another band from the Boner stable; Soul Cannon is one of the best songs ever.

Gaunt from Columbus was pretty good back in the day.

Anti-Nowhere League - British post-punk angst; great first album.

Halo of Flies - the kings of the AmRep noise movement that also spawned bands like Helmet and Surgery.

Pop-o-Pies - They play Truckin' a lot....

TVTV$ - Two really great songs - Television Religion and U.S.ing Us

Geza X - early punk scenester goes techno and rants about Nuclear Power and Hungarians....

Lots of punk bands from the 70's and 80's, but I don't know how "unheard of" they are - Germs, Adolescents, TSOL, Angry Samoans, 45 Grave, Redd Kross, Cramps, Gun Club, Bad Religion, Vandals, etc. I would hope that every true music fan has a working knowledge of those bands and others of their ilk, but you never know with kids these days....

Some great songs (not necessarily great bands):

Twinkeyz - Aliens in Our Midst

Masonics - Earl of Hell

Cash Pussies - 99% is Shit

Saccharine Trust - A Human Certainty

Iron Prostrate - Bring Me the Head of Jerry Garcia

Sisters of Morrisey - Travolta

Brainbombs - Burning Hell

I could go on all night, but it's getting late....
 
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FrancisSawyer;1409969; said:
Hipster: Dandy Warhols
Progressive: Blackfield
Metal: Nasum, Acid Bath, Buzzov*en

There's plenty more but I could go on forever.
I love music threads!
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Blackfield is really good.

Seiges Even, Wastefall, 3, OSI, Pure Reason Revolution are a lot of the more obscure bands I enjoy.
 
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The Feelies

The Album "The Good Earth" is fantastic. A lot of the elements of REM and Son Volt/Wilco 20 years before they did it.

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FrancisSawyer;1409969; said:
Hipster: Dandy Warhols
Progressive: Blackfield
Metal: Nasum, Acid Bath, Buzzov*en

There's plenty more but I could go on forever.
I love music threads!
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I don't think the Dandy Warhols are unheard of - though I kinda wish they were after their last couple albums.
 
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Don't know how I forgot these....

The Elecric Eels - Cleveland's finest ... the genesis of the whole North Coast underground scene.

Crime - San Francisco's first and only rock and roll band.
 
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