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Any local bands in your area...

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Guest The Amazing Rando

Okay...

 

I'm a sucker for local/garage/indy bands...and always want to hear what could potentially be "the next big thing in music" before something happens to go mainstream...

 

And so I'm wondering if anybody has any local bands they are in or that they know of that have music for sale/download that I could possibly get ahold of...

 

It would rule my world.

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Guest razazteca

The only band that I can think of that had a CD for sell is My Funeral it was a Death Metal band, but I think they broke up a few years ago. A friend of mine found their CD in Austin of all places and I live about 5 hours away from University of Texas.

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Guest The Metal Maniac

The only local band that I really know anything about is Wintersleep, who have a damned good song in "Orca".

 

Good stuff, I sez.

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Guest stardust
The only band that I can think of that had a CD for sell is My Funeral it was a Death Metal band, but I think they broke up a few years ago. A friend of mine found their CD in Austin of all places and I live about 5 hours away from University of Texas.

Where do you live, just out of curiosity? I live about two hours away from Austin, and about two from Dallas (yeah, that should tell anyone who knows Texas geography where I'm from), but we get more Dallas music here than Austin music. Then again, my radio pics up more Dallas stations, and I also go to UNT, so...

 

But to answer Rando's question....not sure if you'd like any of there stuff, but Carb and Slow Roosevelt are two pretty popular Dallas bands. I think Carb just broke up (and they were fixin' to get a record deal, too, the dumbasses), and Slow Ro are in negotiations with a major record label. Some of their stuff can be downloaded off of MP3.com. I would also say download some stuff from MP3.com from a band named Locus, but then again, I've known some of the guys in the band since kindergarten. :D

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Guest gangsteruwa

There used to be some (insert word)core bands around here, but they all broke up.

 

Here is a list of the one's I can think of:

Hobnail

Facerake

Three Shades to Eve

 

We also got a band called Non Compos Mentis that used to come here a lot, I don't know where they are/were from though.

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Guest Agent of Oblivion

The local music scene around here is a festering crap pile of bar bands, and people trying to go all Staind on everyone and play shit about their fucking feelings. Fuck them. There aren't even any decent death bands around here anymore. Lividity will go through Indy now and again, but that's about it.

 

I've made a resolution to single-handedly ressurect the metal scene in this area. Even if it takes 5 bands, all of which are me and a drum machine.

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Guest Kinetic

I'd suggest looking up Piedmont Charisma and Dig Shovel Dig. The former is sort of new wave-y and their recordings always have way too much synth noise, but the songs are pretty decent. Dig Shovel Dig is really bizarre and angular, like an updated version of Pere Ubu. It's just two guys with the frontman singing, playing bass, and playing keyboards with his toes. They're awesome. And I believe that the best band in town, Congratulations, is recording right now so I'd definitely keep an eye out for that in the near future. They're just a really wonderful band live and I have every reason to believe that it'll transfer well to record because they're all a bunch of music department nerds. My good friend Candace is the lead singer and she sounds almost exactly like Geddy Lee.

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Guest razazteca

A small town called Del Rio population about 30,000 the big news is drug bust at the boarder and death of a kid by a dealer gone bad. Some more math 8 hour drive from UNT taking the route through Fort Worth, 150 miles of SA.

 

UNT at Denton? Is Dollybraid still around? What was the name of that band Porn something?

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Guest Agent of Oblivion

Their name is Congratulations, and they've got a female singer who sounds like Geddy Lee? That's fucking glorious.

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Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa

www.liemusic.com

L.I.E. is a local band with a sound similar to Alice In Chains. They have an EP out, and a few songs to download on the website.

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Guest Zero_Cool

Slow Roosevelt is one of those bands, yeah. I live north between Dallas and Fort Worth, and about twenty south of UNT. I guess you could also put a band called A Faith Called Chaos in there too..and there's another called Designated Johnny..and also a good one from DFW could be Better Than Nothing.

 

There was a band called Fall (The Season), but they broke up..but they owned.

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Guest The Amazing Rando

stardust...

 

 

Locus seems to have a lot of potential...even if they do only give small samples of MP3.com...

 

try to get them on local radio or something...

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Guest Mik at Cornell

www.electriccandyshop.com

 

Rando, it will be worth your time. This I can promise.

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Guest kingkamala

The local music scene is ehh.....one or two OK bands but no really good ones. There is Motor Booty Affair who had a video played on MTV once or twice late late at night six or seven years back. They used to be somewhat big around here but now they're playing bars and clubs and doing a lot of local commercial jingles. I guess you can't go far if you're white guys playing 70's funk wearing Afro wigs.

 

 

There's also Jeremiah Freed which despite everyone around here LOVING them to death, are really no more than a Creed/Nickelback rip off. They've opened up for Lynard Skynard and the aforementioned Nickelback.

 

 

Finally there is Rocktupus, probably the best band in the area. Rocktapus formed after another big local band Rustic Overtones broke up(the Keyboardist of Rustic Overtones is the lead singer of Rocktupus). Rocktupus is good, solid Top 40 pop-rock, I wouldn't no how to catergorize them but they're pretty good and one of the only good local bands.

 

So out of all of those I suggest downloading Rocktupus and maybe Motor Booty Affair if you like that kind of stuff.

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Guest The Amazing Rando

Mik... that band was pretty cool

 

A nice blend of pop-rock

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I'm going to shill for my younger brother's band, Inept. They're a pretty good band out of Joliet, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. You can go to their website at http://www.ineptband.com, where one can DL several songs. If you're in Chicago next weekend, check them out at Mob Fest. My only beef with the band is their vocalist, but Lucas, my bro, is a pretty decent guitarist who writes a good riff.

 

There. I'm done shilling.

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Guest CoreyLazarus416

In MA, our scene is decent. The local metal scene is just having a resurgence after 15 years of punk being the order of the day. Trauma Concept, Lesions, Letdown, and Inheritance are some damn good unsigned Mass Metal bands. Of course, I pimp Inheritance because I'm friends with the members, and Letdown's guitarist, Dan, is the teacher of a few of my friends...but hey. Still good stuff.

 

Letdown's about to get decently big. They won the WAAF Bay State Rock-sponsored Battle Of The Bands, and opened for Cocksmack. From what I heard, Letdown actually stole the show.

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Guest redbaron51

Far From Faithful is like an Emo band

 

The Late Apology is a hardcore band

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Guest mesepher
Letdown's about to get decently big. They won the WAAF Bay State Rock-sponsored Battle Of The Bands, and opened for Cocksmack. From what I heard, Letdown actually stole the show.

someone farting through a microphone could steal the show from cocksmack though

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Guest Spaceman Spiff
There's also Jeremiah Freed which despite everyone around here LOVING them to death, are really no more than a Creed/Nickelback rip off

I can't even imagine how much they must suck.

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Guest CoreyLazarus416
Letdown's about to get decently big. They won the WAAF Bay State Rock-sponsored Battle Of The Bands, and opened for Cocksmack. From what I heard, Letdown actually stole the show.

someone farting through a microphone could steal the show from cocksmack though

True enough, but we're talking Boston, Cocksmack's hometown. Unless a band is Limp Bizkit bad (which, I'll admit, Cocksmack isn't), they'll get cheered in their hometown.

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Guest INXS

Does Fred Durst even know where his home town is? Godsmack never gets any love. Their too rock for the metal fans and too metal for the rock fans.

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Guest CoreyLazarus416

And they also have recorded the same two songs for three albums straight, Sully's a huge schmuck, and the guitarist refuses to try anything new that might require actual talent.

 

Godsmack is a one-trick pony. Time we sent the ol' horse out to the glue factory.

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Guest stardust

Razazteca...Dollybraid actually broke up (unfortunately) about a year ago. There's been some talk of them getting back together, though.

 

And Rando...yeah, Locus did have LOTS of potential. I guess they still do, but they now have a new lead singer, and while his vocals are really good, they're just not the same as Dan's vocals. And they do get played on local radio every now and then, which is cool. (just some background...Dan was the lead singer of Locus and was killed two years ago this Nov. 10, and they now have another guy doing lead vocals, who used to be the lead singer of another local band who Locus was really good friends with...so, yeah...) As far as I know, they're still writing new stuff, and still performing here around town and going down to Austin and up to Dallas (they've played in Deep Ellum a couple of times that I've known of).

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