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We're all hipsters on the inside. What music do you listen to that nobody's heard of? I really like a rapper called Busdriver. I asked one of my friends if she had heard of him and she said "I don't ride the bus, sorry."  edit: I should really have posted a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ERE8HX2KE0 nerd plus rage has a new favorite as of 03:14 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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iamamiwhoami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamamiwhoami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnH3zs8wRo
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Nov 13, 2015 23:37
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Oh man, I have a buttload of these. I'll only share a couple right now though, first ones that come to mind. First is Eskimo, a band whose website my ex discovered a few years ago, preserved in its turn-of-the-millennium glory. They released a new(?) album last year, but my introduction to them was this record, The Further Adventures Of Der Shrimpkin. The best description I can muster is that they sound like the best parts of the background music in quirky 90s point-and-click adventure games crossed with a drunken jazz ensemble: https://eskimo.bandcamp.com/album/the-further-adventures-of-der-shrimpkin Next is The Shanners, a punk rock band from London who broke up back in 2009 with only a couple of EPs and an album produced, but what an album. Sarky and searing, my favourite song is probably Flex Plexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qqA-WfFYJM And on a totally different angle, a trip hop band called Second Person, also sadly not around any more. Earnest and sweet, with great vocals and drum work. I'm particularly fond of their Elements EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTolvLVzkfw Gertrude Perkins has a new favorite as of 00:35 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 16, 2015 23:02
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I want to say Nekrogoblikon or Red Fang, but a few million views on Youtube probably means more than a few people know about them (and I think that a Red Fang song was used in a Super Bowl commercial). Nekrogoblikon - No One Survives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMKOx6fumc Red Fang - Wires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQPfQvLIseA
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Nov 16, 2015 23:59
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Queens of The STone Age are an obscure rock band that makes really good music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHKOC64KnE Macklemore is kind of unknown but with his amazing flow and controversial topics it's no doubt that he'll be a star soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHKOC64KnE Not sure what I could say about The Lonely Island but they're really good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TICjEsvC8o
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Gertrude Perkins posted:And on a totally different angle, a trip hop band called [ur=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Person_%28band%29]Second Person[/url], also sadly not around any more. Earnest and sweet, with great vocals and drum work. I'm particularly fond of their Elements EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTolvLVzkfw you lured me in with trip-hop but why does her voice sound like an anime, gently caress you gently caress head ufck
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Nov 17, 2015 00:05
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New Wet Kojak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dyjSo9nAdc
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Nov 17, 2015 01:59
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The Essex Green. Nothing special, just really catchy, clever and fun 60s-inspired folky pop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00YFaQjQMs This is basically the loveliest song ever written about driving through poo poo towns along Route 30 in Pennsylvania.
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Nov 17, 2015 02:13
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Gonna have to go with Amoc here. He's a Finnish rapper who performs in his native language Inari Sami, which currently has less than 300 living speakers. Tends to collaborate with a lot of other Finns. http://youtu.be/S_Xkq_d85Ec It's just weird as hell, hearing nearly-dead languages used in such a contemporary setting.
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Nov 17, 2015 02:23
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Life at Sea. I don't even know know if they're around anymore; last new material AFAIK was released in 2012. But their best stuff was released in 2003. Kind of a Sunny Day Real Estate sort of vibe. Saw them in college on their way through Athens, GA; they gave a hell of a show for a dive bar crowd of a dozen and were friendly to everyone sticking around after the gig was over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVtvll-v-p8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40E_XX9BVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGRDFfZBWlY
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Nov 17, 2015 02:26
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Phone posting so I can't grab a video but I love Thank You Scientist, they're insanely tight prog rock with a ton of instruments and the lead singer kinda looks like Brian Posehn's evil twin
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Nov 18, 2015 15:57
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Weird experimental metal band Battle of Mice. A bit of an acquired taste, the vocals especially, but I love them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1CkdF7uoKk
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Nov 18, 2015 16:03
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Less than 500 Facebook likes = obscure, right? Anyway, here's SatanaKozel, a Russian folk metal band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpzT4vE0Yzo
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Nov 18, 2015 16:18
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ArtIsResistance posted:Queens of The STone Age are an obscure rock band that makes really good music. I don't know, I might be wrong, but if you record an album in 2001 with Dave Grohl and guest on SNL in 2005(queens of the Stone Age), win 4 Grammy awards(Macklemore), and have your own segments on SNL(the lonely island), I don't think you can be considered obscure anymore.
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Nov 19, 2015 07:41
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im quite fond of the double qotsa video. nice touch
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Nov 19, 2015 09:23
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American Football was my poo poo back in high school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9VhC0hiTg
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Nov 19, 2015 09:29
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kizudarake posted:I don't know, I might be wrong, but if you record an album in 2001 with Dave Grohl and guest on SNL in 2005(queens of the Stone Age), win 4 Grammy awards(Macklemore), and have your own segments on SNL(the lonely island), I don't think you can be considered obscure anymore. you are astoundingly bad at recognizing obvious trolls have you perhaps had a serious traumatic brain injury lately?
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Nov 19, 2015 15:56
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Ribboncandy. My favorite band. They were apparently a local band in the mid 90s and put out a couple tapes on tiny labels. Accidentally saw them play a reunion show while driving around western Massachusetts a couple years back and got their "complete recordings" CD. Can't find anything about them online really. They were opening for Bunnygrunt who are also a great pop group who could probably qualify as "obscure". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KObm6Qm-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMjyd4Bbsek
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Nov 19, 2015 17:13
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Verse and the Vapors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMGBImv16s Lizard Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PNZa5vQ6w and one that's more known just to round out the styles John Moreland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWrJ8qy5lY All from Tulsa
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Busdriver is pretty well-known within his niche, OP. I'm in Ireland and most people I've met who are into non-mainstream hiphop have heard of him. Plus he turns up on a so many collaborations. By no means disparaging him or anything, he's probably been my overall most-played artist over the past year. I nominate Ten Kens. Ethereal but also very visceral gloomy alt-rock(?) I guess. Kind of psychedelic and noise-rocky as well. One of the best bands of all time imho.
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Nov 19, 2015 22:35
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I love largely forgotten 80s bands with awkward lead singers, so I love Felt, Orange Juice, and Stockholm Monsters Felt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6L8rHyzQj0 Orange Juice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdp6iBgDUpM Stockholm Monsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvmMi9y0Ko Crow Jane posted:The Essex Green. Seconded, that whole album is pretty gorgeous.
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Nov 19, 2015 22:43
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I suppose Foxy Shazam could be considered obscure : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4CPaKzSUU They were a sick rear end loving awesome local band that blew up for a good two years. They disbanded and now Eric Nally, the lead, appeared in some god awful poo poo loving music thing called Mackelmore or some other stupid poo poo and people are starting to like him more. I know this because I started getting tons of emails from youtube that a bunch of teenagers started commenting on an old video of mine talking about how all the losers are just now discovering Eric Nally... Music fans can be stupid as gently caress (if you want to see check these comments out : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0_YKiFtn9s ) They did get some national recognition I believe, but I'd say they still count as obscure.
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I'm not sure if this is cheating, because I'm friends with them, but I swear I would be super into Bent Knee even if I weren't, seeing as I love weird, experimental progressive rock. They're Boston-based, but they tour quite a bit. They're one hell of a live band, if you happen to get the chance to see them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCU_lScCpAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8aTTQN47Y They're starting to get a lot more national press lately, which is awesome, but they're definitely obscure.
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Tusmørke. A Norwegian band that plays a sort of psychedelic prog/folk-rock. Have been an ongoing thing since 1994 but only started getting stuff released in 2012 (the core members have been active in various other bands alongside this one). Take a peek at this thing, which has Norwegian lyrics about the primal bits of our brains and cleverly uses video footage from an old documentary about an American snake-handler church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qgOFgkaYU
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RizieN posted:I suppose Foxy Shazam could be considered obscure : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4CPaKzSUU Foxy Shazam are absolutely not obscure anymore but good luck finding people who know them and have also listened to The Flamingo Trigger.
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In the shuffling madness / Of the locomotive breath / Runs the all, time loser / Headlong to his death
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Here's a really obscure one. The Canadian Cultural Worker's Committee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDX7Ul9Kx7A
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Henchman of Santa posted:Foxy Shazam are absolutely not obscure anymore but good luck finding people who know them and have also listened to The Flamingo Trigger. That's good to hear... well it would be if they were still making music  These guys are definitely an obscure Cincinnati band though : https://theharlequins.bandcamp.com/ (psychedelic/grunge rock)
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Nov 20, 2015 22:14
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Here's an awesome indie folk track. Reminds me of Arcade Fire.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7JGMdlrzIo
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china bot posted:I love largely forgotten 80s bands with awkward lead singers, so I love Felt, Orange Juice, and Stockholm Monsters Sadly Lawrence from Felt is now a basically insane ghoul living in public housing, he comes into my friend's record store from time to time and always looks like death
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china bot posted:I love largely forgotten 80s bands with awkward lead singers, so I love Felt, Orange Juice, and Stockholm Monsters Lawrence rules. How about Denim? They're pretty obscure in that their last album was never even actually released, but contains one of the most magical pop tunes of the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQvXDONtnY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?embed?EP-FrafCPq4 I lived in Calgary when Reverie Sound Revue released their first EP. I saw them live every chance I had and still love the EP to this day. Cool to see while researching this post that the lead singer has a solo record coming out in January!
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Legit new up and comer  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWjygxbQbQY Crazy beatbox dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4MFE9bfDYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSguR2UstU And my favourite group ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnyETI-Ox2U
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Ummm I've heard of some of the bands and/or they're not terrible so those ones clearly don't fit this thread. For the rest of you keep up the good work.
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DBUK
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I like The Frogs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lzL14S9GU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt5RqyqdZFQ Because they sing songs like this. BrigadierSensible has a new favorite as of 05:00 on Nov 21, 2015 |
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Nov 21, 2015 04:58
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The singer for Sunny Day Real Estate was in this other band for a quick minute, they were pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVM5DPe20N0
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Nov 21, 2015 05:18
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Gay Paris, hipster cunts trying to be metal from Sydney Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCdYKYbmao8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYs_gAqALz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnrPifNdDg8
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Bip Roberts posted:Ummm I've heard of some of the bands and/or they're not terrible so those ones clearly don't fit this thread. For the rest of you keep up the good work. The name of the thread is "obscure", not "unknown".
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Bumblefuck! posted:I'm not sure if this is cheating, because I'm friends with them, but I swear I would be super into Bent Knee even if I weren't, seeing as I love weird, experimental progressive rock. They're Boston-based, but they tour quite a bit. They're one hell of a live band, if you happen to get the chance to see them. pretty much immediately bought their album on bandcamp right after hearing these, tell your friends they're v.good thanks 4 posting
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