Bands and artists no one seems to be talking about but are awesome and you wanna go one record trumpeting them first here on ILM

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Terror At The Opera (ex Slumber Party - on No Sides)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

fucking This Ascension. "August Rain" = one of my favorite songs, evah.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 March 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

can they be old bands too?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

err, that's 'on' record btw

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah strongo - anyone. It would probably fall under more of a 'slept on bands' thread tho, but go crazy - this is just as much for my edification as anything else.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers
Slobberbone
Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons
The Badlees

― Mark M, Friday, 26 March 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Cranebuilders

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Cranebuilders are terrific. "You're Song" and "Morning Cup" are totally class.

― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Lanterna s/t, specifically the song "Down by the Seine", which makes me want to cry every time I hear it, making it second only to "Walk Away Renee" for sheer wallowing

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There's no way I'm the first one trumpeting them, but do people talk about Siouxsie & The Banshees here? If so, then not enough.

― otto, Friday, 26 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Otto...seek ye the search function.

― Alex in NYC...more tired than he's ever felt in his entire life (vassifer), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Faun Fables
Six Organs of Admittance
Future Pilot AKA
Futurians
Double Leopards
Hala Strana
Mr. Airplane Man

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Jucifer!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

the best songs on the lanterna s/t album are the untitled ones! well, i guess they have titles on the ryko version.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Mazing Vids, the NYC 2 piece that approximates a sort of Slugfuckers/Primitive Calculators/Cabaret Voltaire aesthethic.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the autumn rhythm. they're soooooooo not that good but they're setting off all my tweegaze guilty-pleasure triggers, speaking directly to the part of me that always wanted the cranberries to be good so i could like them.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

stockholm - the autumn rhythm are great people - they're very good when they play with a third member (on drums) - doesn't the dude remind you a little of Tweedy? :)

Evan - maybe Double Leopards were a secret five years ago when they were almost as good as they are now (but better since Mike and Mya joined!) but they're pretty big news now, as are Six Organs and Faun Fables (anything on Drag City really doesn't count as under the radar)

i'd also like to throw in Confuse / Gai and other Japanoise punxx, who, tho obscure, don't get enuff love on this board

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

LA DRUGS

― Adm Mhel (adam michel), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

...Well they're all right. For a while.

― Adm Mhel (adam michel), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

twisted village right? or is it Load? anyway yeah i have that record. it's ok

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Christian Vogel.

― hstencil, Friday, 26 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Curt1s OTM and very brave in bringing up This Ascension--I often take shit for my love of goth silliness. I work through it by reminding myself that the shit-givers are often Bright Eyes fans and thus just plain wrong.

Outlaw Order have put out their first 7" on Southern Lord and it's fucking great but I haven't seen any discussion on ILM. Come on people! It's Eyehategod! But FASTER! Kind of!

Also any number of New Orleans MCs who put out a couple things and then disappear: specifically ERC whose record circa 2002, Incoming is very very good.

― adam (adam), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

adam - i got really jazzed about Outlaw Order but was a bit underwhelmed by the single. I'll check out the album tho for sure

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

22 Pistepirkko from Finland. Also Sylvie Courvoisier, although a: I've trumpeted her before in this forum and b: someone else probably has as well.

Roger Doyle! June Tabor! Merita Halili!

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

dmbq
curtains

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment
Halo Perfecto
HALE ZUKAS (are they from near you Gygax? They're Californians, for sure...)
Prurient (getting more well known lately.)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Supercar. Japan's best kept secret.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Desoto Reds, SF's twee-est power-poppists!
Robi Draco Rosa, dude who wrote "Livin' la Vida Loca" for former Menudo-mate Enrique Martin; 2004's Mad Love is latin pop and hair metal and drone-rock, all filtered through Miles Davis worship and what sounds like Mansun, with string arrangements by Van Dyke Parks!
Pepito, the best electro-emo pan-latin ("Havana! Tijuana!") duo of all time!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 March 2004 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Caramel Jack
Marlowe

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Kid Carpet

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sasha.

& she's even had two singles all over the radio.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I concur about Faun Fables. Absolutely jaw-dropping amazing.

Also: Dirty Projectors.

― Charming Tedious, Friday, 26 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Relationship and the Briefcases

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to have to investigate Faun Fables - heard one track off the new one, sounded great. Which is the best CD to get first?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

LEGENDARY PINK DOTS!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

SOUTHALL RIOT!!!!!

this band should be MASSIVE!! why Of Arrowe Hill (also good but not quite as good) are labelmates with the Darkness and SR are still forgotten is BAFFLING to me

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Roger Doyle!

Miss Mauger rools!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Family Album by Faun Fables Nick.Sorry about the unknown test but here in Dallas Tx. nobody has heard of anything Roger!

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Christian Vogel

...has just done a brilliant remix for one of our bands...yay!

Also, Melody Club are the new Pulp. Or the new Aerosmith. I can't quite decide, but my are they a mess of fun!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Frankenixon. Go see 'em live for pounding intensity, then listen to the records for weird piano pop-ness. And their new album drops Tuesday on BiFi.

― briania, Friday, 26 March 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Frankenixon. Go see 'em live for pounding intensity, then listen to the records for weird piano pop-ness. And their new album drops next week on BiFi.

― briania, Friday, 26 March 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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― briania, Friday, 26 March 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Melody Club makes me wanna smoke crack.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

second that Caramel Jack .. tis indeed one off the wall album, my othetr top tip for offkilter pop songs is the new Sancho album due out on superglider.com, tis the new project from Brothers in Sound honcho Paul, and has been making my commute to work sooo beautiful .. other stuff of note bronze age fox. once we get past the Collector Scum singles and they compile them together with last years ep will make one excellent Nu Pop with laptop beats (tis a pop group spinoff from Minotaur Shock Dave Edwards)

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Petty Booka

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

My Favorite. They deserve to be huge among all the Smiths/New Order fans all around....yet they can barely sell a thousand copies of their EPs, even after a couple of years.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ari Hoenig (NYC drummer, he's the one), Hot 8 Brass Band, Lil' Stooges Brass Band, Youngblood Brass Band, Vox (bunch of friends' post-rock band that'll hopefully get their record on a label when it's done), Trombone Shorty (New Orleans trumpet player)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Mense Reents

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Pantha Du Prince - Diamond Daze: Brilliant album of moody tech-house. From Cologne, no less.
AM/PM - The Ends: Pop Ambient-style grace.
Hong Kong - Rock the Faces: New wave-Blondie-garage-fuzz-fun!

Pepito seconded! New album soon.

New bands I'd like to hear more by/hear more about: Fuck-Off Machete, New Black.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ghostwriter
twinkiebots
the bloodiest night of my life
the royal bangs

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Melody Club makes me wanna smoke crack

tell you what though, they're a welcome blast of FUN in a UK still fixated with luckless beige epic Keanerock innit.

Also, can't believe I haven't mentioned CocoRosie, who have probably made my album of 2004 thus far (ok, it's only March, but still), up there with cLOUDDEAD.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oxford Collapse anyone? I think their full length is coming out soon.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the occasion are just awesome
also the double, gang gang dance, and jane/queens

― duke public, Friday, 26 March 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

true on the double.

patrick wolf as well.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Roger, I think Gretchen is still playing with Slumber Party as well as Terror At The Opera, or has she left the band? At any rate, nice pick.

I'd add Chicago House dude Gemini, NY avant jazz dude Seth Misterka, Billy Bang, Sabir Mateen, and Faruq Z. Bey.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! Oxford Collapse are so good.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw them recently and i was pleasantly surprised. pop punk disco dub?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Viva L'American Death Ray - really catchy glammy Memphis garage rock from Nick Ray, ex-'68 Comeback member. Pick up Smash Radio Hits posthaste!

Ed's Redeeming Qualities - a fun band that was around in the early '90s, Carrie Bradley's old outfit. They wrote the tune "Drivin' on 9" which is miscredited to the Breeders. I saw them play at a band shell in Rockford IL in 1994 for about 20 people. Really friendly too.

Mr. Airplane Man - I'm trying to figure out why they get less hype than the far more boring Black Keys (another garage-blue duo), but no answers are arriving.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

B O S S O F S A U C E !

They're a crazy Pennsylvania blues noise (in equal part) duo or trio that makes King Brothers sound like The Eagles!

― Bole Weevil, Friday, 26 March 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Conducent

― otto, Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ponys!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

As in those dudes from Maine? Yeah, they're a good band.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Fat Worm Of Error

Magic Markers

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Alboth!

― jjj, Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Chevron.

― cws (cws), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Heath Yoanaites
Ultra Milkmaids
Tim Catlin
Greg Headley

Stence, is Christian Vogel any relation to the widely acknowledged as awesome (in these and most other parts), now signed to well-above-the-radar dance giant Novamute, fer pete's sake, Cristian?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yonaites. damnit.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

tenderhooks

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, hell. three more:

Kazumasa Hashimoto
Davide Balula
Ethereal Planes Indian

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

shit man i keep hearing about The Ponys - only Time Lag record I haven't heard, and everyone was talking them up after sxsw. what do they sound like?

― roger adultery, Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Amps For Christ
ST 37
Adrian Shaw
Armpit
Muons

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hope of the States- I'm all over that shit

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 27 March 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ST 37

I will join in the praise by saying I've been chatting off and on with Scott Telles over time and should be updating the AMG reviews of his stuff soon -- I hope!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 March 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, I think he probably meant the Ponys from Chicago.There are like four current indie rock bands caled "The Ponys"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 28 March 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

They should all team up and tour.

Headliners: The Ponys
Opening acts: The Ponys, The Ponys, The Ponys

Name of tour: The 4X4 Ride Across America.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Essra Mohawk (amazingly couldn't find any mention of her on ILM Search, surely that can't be?)

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

good joke Ned

― Jole, Sunday, 28 March 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Desoto Reds, SF's twee-est power-poppists!

didn't they break up? regardless one of the guys started Rogue Wave, who I like well enough, and who, when they sent me their CD last year, I assumed would be HUGE. They finally signed to SubPop and probably will be.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 28 March 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Kelley Stoltz (SF psych-singer-songwriter in a twisted early 70's Bowie/Bolan/Barret vein)who I already started a thread on.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 28 March 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh, yer all screwing up. Human Switchboard's "Who's Landing in My Hangar?" is a clear leader as an outstanding forgotten and shamefully not reissued rock 'n' punk album.

― Dock Miles (Dock Miles), Sunday, 28 March 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i meant the ponys from chicago... they sound like the modern lovers + joy division + beer

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

life partners

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 29 March 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

desert fathers

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Silversun Pickups
The Wedding's Off
The Mae Shi

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ben, did you catch the coachwhips show at the smell?

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

search:

becky stark
mystical unionists
the magistrates

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the winks

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Weevil - where did you hear about Boss of Sauce?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 29 March 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Squirrels

― don, Monday, 29 March 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Dean! - I didn't make it to that Coachwhips show. I was looking up the bands you named -- I want to hunt down their stuff (although Magistrates proved too frustrating to Google). I think I saw that Becky Stark play an instore at Sea Level Records one time. And she plays in the Mystical Unionists, too, right? I think there's a pretty good scene in L.A. right now. Or at least a nice batch of bands.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

coba - sounds like a japanese version of plaid if they went on holiday to the south of france.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Paula Campbell and Comp and a bunch of other Baltimore people.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

jim-jams

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wrangler Brutes. Whose tape I got after fulsome praise on here, so they are somewhere on the radar - BUT NOT ENOUGH

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Kelley Stoltz seconded.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Wrangler Brutes have a tape? As in cassette? Is that the only format it's on?

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes x3, www.wranglerbrutes.com will tell you all you need to know...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

WAKE UP!

The Double
The Occasion
Excepter
Gang Gand Dance

― christ, Friday, 16 April 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Vulgar Boatmen

― jds, Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

vulgar boatmen used to get all kinds of good press which was a shame since they were awful, not as bad as the gunbunnies though.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

John Chantler Monoke
The first single on Hand on the Plow
The Sightings (best thing on load)
Puka Puka Brains
Seigen Ono (especially dragonfish ensemble)
and can Arthur Russell get some press for those re-issues?
seems like he will be.
ARK

Also
pretty much anything I promote too =)
(i.e. Flashbulb, Machine Drum, Traject, etc.)

Peace,
A

― andrew jones (andrew jones), Saturday, 17 April 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah the new Andreas Tilliander
for meteo sound is just incredible.
best dub-house in a long time. not
micro-house, this is full on 4/4
dub shit that just rocks. Anyone who
saw him in the u.s. a few weeks back
knows.

-
A

― andrew jones (andrew jones), Saturday, 17 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is getting press, but Cedric Brooks and Light of Saba on Honest Johns I like a lot, and that new I-Sound/ Wasteland thing where he's doing electro is good too. manayst on touching bass is pretty good electro too. Claro Intellecto's new one for A.I. is worth a mention.

― andrew jones (andrew jones), Saturday, 17 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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