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The Local Thread
Post bands or whatever from your area that have a big local following but aren't really known outside it.
I'll start.  D Double E (Newham, East London) Known mostly as part of the slightly more well known Newham Generals, his solo stuff is far better though. This clip is a couple of years old, but my fave anyway. There's also this stupidly good instrumental for his track Anger Management. Not really D Double cos there's no actual mcing on it. Either way, it's still probably about 15 x better than anything else you've listened to today. |
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there are no good local bands in los angeles, the scene is dead, long live the scene!
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the closest thing to a local band from round where i live is Deep Purple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Djwv...eature=related also i think the rebel & country teasers are from relatively nearby |
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http://www.victimoftime.com/articles...de-west-coast/ http://ongakubaka.blogspot.com/2008/...ot-com-lp.html Matt K. Shrugg http://www.myspace.com/mattkshrugg Ganglians http://www.myspace.com/ganglian Public Nuisance http://www.publicnuisance.net/index.html Twinkeyz http://electrictometurn.blogspot.com.../twinkeyz.html |
The only really interesting musician in my particular neck of the woods (and I do live in the woods) is Jiro Shoda of the New Jazz Syndicate. He's played with Kaoru Abe and quite a few other free jazz legends, but is pretty much unknown in his own right. Crazy motherfucker, that one. He runs a jazz cafe near my house.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55SwWv23XAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqwAB...eature=related |
Um, my band is the best local band that is unknown outside.
the sundresses & the lions rampant are two other really kickass local bands We have a few local bands that ARE known outside though, c spencer and heartless bastards for sure. just got back from seeing spencer tonight at a warehouse show. it was solid |
You know, there are or have been at least 50 pretty cool bands and probably 10-15 amazing bands to come out of my town of 50,000 people in the past 5 years. They're all friends of mine on www.myspace.com/adamcooley if you're curious. Everything from psych rock to residents-style stuff to captain beefheart-style stuff to surf rock to electronic pop to musical styles that have never been invented. Some truely amazing music has been created in my area.
Or check the links in my sig for stuff I've worked on that isn't as amazing. |
Well, I technicallu have two home towns. Both scenes are kinda drab right now. Boston has some great musicians, but they always go to New York. Tucson's scene is mainly dominated by 19th rate metalcore bands, which is a tragedy considering how inspring a place the desert can be. I'm constantly on the search for cool Desert Rock shit, after all, this state birthed the Meat Puppets and Sun City Girls. Pheonix has a better scene, I'll post some bands later. Sadly the best local band I've seen in Tucson this year was a Grateful Dead cover band who just played dead songs with lots of reverb and distortion and delay, I was stoned real good and it was fun as hell.
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i think the most popular israeli bands that were more alternative and were actually good were the witches, that i mentioned in another thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2OOq...eature=related (really cheesy video from some late night show or something) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wkc...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nqlw...eature=related the top hat carriers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfdEE...909C6&index=44 the somewhat famous minimal compact http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Rtd...eature=related and the klick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDhM42tnTI and more recent bands are tv budhas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfH2xpRJws ashkara meitim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx51L...eature=related plishat hotfei hagufot (invasion of the body snatchers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8sDB...eature=related they are a really great hardcore band. and they're like 18 years old. they have a new drummer who looks 14 but is excellent. we are playing with them in a couple of weeks yeah and there's dellilah |
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