Where's the Nuggets for current local and regional music?

What I appreciate about the Nuggets compilation is that it put together stuff that wasn't even nationally known (some exceptions, obv). Given the glut of regional recorded music, much of which is sorely in need of sifting through, I think it only makes sense to have a Nuggets-like compilation come out every few months of excellent regional and local music that does not have a national following. In 20 years, we might lose track of all the great music that's being made now, and which only exists on Bandcamp, Reverbnation, and isolated CDRs lying on people's dressers.

Is something like this out there? What are the existing options for exploring music that should be on this compilation?

to be clear, I'm looking for stuff that someone or some group of people is somehow curating. Preferably people with good taste.

A lot of college stations put these out from time to time. eg: this is a recent one from Vancouver which is pretty good:
http://www.mintrecs.com/releases/vancouver-pop-alliance-compilation-volume-3

But is there anyone that is compiling especially good songs from local bands across the country?

Nuggets wasn't released until 1984 and no one really listened to it until it was reissued by Rhino so we should just be getting around to compiling the rarities of the late 90s early 2000s right now.

^ i'd be into this

1984? The original album was released in 1972.

The original 2LP Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 was released in 1972. In 1984, Rhino issued a multivolume Nuggets series (Pop, Punk, The Hits).

i've been thinking about this too but wrt the early 90s -- where are the mini-slints? surely there were tons of them and some of them were good! for every grifters there had to have been 5 other bands that never made more than one recording, or maybe they just have home recordings and nothing else. i'd like to hear some of those. i guess?

i remember hearing a story about how Nuggets was THE de facto party record and that's why I learned a bunch of Nuggets songs this year -- so I could be ready in case a party erupts and needs my services.

i bet you could make a whole record just from ohio bands who never made it

Oh sorry, shallow reading on Wikipedia.

tbf, the 1984 reissues seemed to majorly rekindle interest in the whole Nuggets idea/phenomenon.

More second wave at that point -- the original album is one of those things often referred to by TONS of punk-era bands and just after.

yeah, the cbgb people all heard the nuggets comp early on (at least partly because lenny kaye was in that scene). the early television stuff is heavily indebted to Nuggets.
didn't gerard cosloy do a regional comp of texas bands recently?

perhaps these? http://explodinginsound.bandcamp.com/music
the more recent ones are pretty great.

This compilation of Canadian heavy psych rock bands is pretty great:

http://shootingguns.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-burners-compilation

yeah punk&hardcore still makes a decent fist of this. this one of NYC weirdo HC bands from last year is good http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/various-artists-ground-zero-lp.html

Geez, that would be astonishingly difficult if you have no access to old zines or a decent 7" collection. Some people from the punk / new wave period onward produced one or two great 7" and no LP's. You can find a lot on YouTube - I found loads of power pop and new wave singles. With time I suppose more people will upload stuff.

I'm thrilled I can hear garage and new wave stuff that was impossible before.