Best local bands in your area and what they're like?

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there's sites and soem MP3's I beleive. The best bands you never heard, even if you're from melbourne (the Big Smoke)

1. Bozilla- hosts of End Of The Month Club in Glasgow!!! Although you'll probably know them bretter as the people who did the TLC/Madness bootleg remix... (See also McSleazy...)
2. Pro Forma- analogue electronic burbling away in the background, one New Romantic on guitar, Glasgwegian Elvis on bass, and Jarvis Cocker's bad brother on vocals!!!! (NB Poor website, but great band!!!!)
3. The Magnificents- like a punk band, only with old wonky synths!!!!!
4. Bubblecraft- bit more standard guitary stuff, but really good!!!!
5. Diadem- their mp3.com stuff is more to the industrial end, whilst their live stuff is more Nirvana-esqe power trio!!!!

As for around OC? Papa Byrd! They live right across the street.

The Chalets - my new favourite band.

Female Hercules - they live to rock.

We don't talk enough about our local scenes and bands on ILM.
My small town has a surprisingly fertile local scene with loads of talented acts working within it. That said it can feel quite insular and microcosmic at times and many struggle to get much coverage outside of their immediate area. All the same, these are all talented people with their own followings, and some are considered as next-to-minor celebs in the area. I used to promote local gigs for a number of years and I still attend shows quite regularly. Despite the closure of a lot of venues due to noise restrictions and money problems, we seem to be undergoing a bit of a golden period at the moment, with a number of long-suffering bands finally getting outside interest, playing festival gigs, reviews in major publications and releasing stuff too.

I'd like to hear about your local music scene. Do you pay much attention to it? What is it like? What bands are worth checking out? Is local music still alive and kicking or is it a relic?

This is a 'lyric video' by Aghast! who are a local extreme metal band. The music is brutal and firmly in the death/black/extreme end of the spectrum, but what I like (and you can tell from the lyrics) is how little they try to keep up the facade of the 'serious metal band'. Really, they're secretly a party band and that's why they've always attracted a crossover crowd to their shows. When I've seen them play, there's loads of audience interaction, ridiculous on-stage get-ups and extreme versions of party games based on blind man's buff or musical chairs. They played to a large crowd at Bloodstock recently and now they're going on tour and self-releasing an album. Great to see from a band who started out playing together in 6th form over ten years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAHVunmzGc

I'm a big fan of local bands - go out almost every week to something, compared to touring bands which I almost never go to. There's music that I like live but hardly ever listen to anywhere else and I see a lot of it while also indulging my twin loves of booze and bars. My taste in recorded music (techno, jazz, soundtracks, chamber music etc) is completely different from my taste in live music which is more like garage rock, surf bands, old school punk, psych/noise rock, rockabilly/country, guitar pop - music for getting wasted to.

I live in a small city - Vancouver. There's a handful of bands I try to never miss because they are always good and always cheap. Best young bands I like are Thee Ahs, Pineapple, Cavegirl (all guitar pop/rock), Fake Tears, Synthcake (electronics), Half Chinese, Spriing, (little bit experimental psych-rock). There's tons more that are pretty good too - Ruffled Feathers, Ballantynes, I could go on. The most popular young bands in the local indie scene seem to be Bestie, Weed and Dead Soft. None of them do much for me - they remind of fringe grunge bands of old like Gumball. Nardwuar's band The Evaporators and The Tranzmitors are two garage punk bands from Vancouver's glory days that I continue to love (along with a handful of bands they are associated with). There's tons of punk bands, mostly LOL/bad but there's a street punk band called Bishop's Green that get it right. There's decent local metal and hip-hop scenes here but I don't know much about them.

There's one amazing band called Big Evil - fucking great. Two saxes, a technical drummer and a metal bass & guitar. They have no peers and don't fit any genre or scene though so they don't get much attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEzxEEQI0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xONJuIwg9P8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jekc905YPhc

There is a lot of heavy metal in Louisville.

These dudes are pretty epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVMedyP4bE

http://ohlm.bandcamp.com/

I'm ashamedly pretty out of touch with local music in the bay area now that isn't by people who've been doing it for years and years (like myself). but I do rep for John Murray, who is pretty big in Ireland and the UK. His album The Graceless Age was one of my favorites from the past few years.

Hobart, Tasmania 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZhWegJK0A
All The Weathers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64tgGO77Q8
mumble(speak)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-70jdfpq4Xo&list=PL6HEwswne7_DxZhj348Dcr2fmoBG0YBpC&index=1
The Native Cats

There's a LOT more. The local music scene is very active currently, and mostly great.

These are Sons of Guns, a noisy electro-rock couple from Hitchin, Herts - not a million miles away from stuff like Crystal Castles although they seem to top themselves each time I hear a new track by them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzqF8XET7o&autoplay=1&app=desktop

Rosie from the band also plays in Traitors, who are kind of a local supergroup devoted to reviving a sort of pre-emo style of pop punk. Not my usual cuppa cha, but for what they're doing, they're doing it really fucking well. All the members have been in various outfits over time and now they're doing something they're all into. Love the hooks and the three-part harmonies especially. Must have seen them 3-4 times in the last year now and I find myself remembering the words and kind of singing along already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBwINFkCOUc

Thee Ahs

saw these guys at a sort of pre-World Cup final party which was incongruous I daresay but they were fun

Bishop's Green

there was an interview with them in a recent Maximumrocknroll, they sounded legit, meant to check em out in fact

Vancouver is surely not a 'small city' in the scheme of things...?

coincidentally I was reading a thread about new-ish Oi bands on another board yesterday and Bishops Green came up a lot as being a great new band. wasn't too sure whether to check them out since quite a lot of the bands mentioned on the thread are dodgy as fuck but if MRR are covering them that seems unlikely in this case.

actually thinking back I watched the final with most of Thee Ahs as well, they seemed like some cheerful fuckers

great local action at my store tomorrow night. 4 solo peeps. 6-8 pm. byob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHmPSDjbYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHYWfQM7es

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ9B3Ac-WrU

https://soundcloud.com/hiddentemple/mwchins-the-best-cut-plug

^^^ this.

(or rather, these)

actually thinking back I watched the final with most of Thee Ahs as well, they seemed like some cheerful fuckers

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Best post I've seen on ILM for a while.

Bishop's Green - they are by no means youngsters but that's another pleasure of local gigs - the more mature types that have honed and perfected the tropes of their genre over ten years or more and can rip through their repertoire cool as fuck. I'm a bit surprised that anyone has heard of them outside of Canada actually but now I see they've been touring in Germany and so on. Same thing for Thee Ahs (real youngsters) - it's amazing that they have an audience in Europe when they've toiled in dives & house shows for years here. But both bands are operating in very niche genres with dedicated, long-standing networks (which kinda ignorant of) so I guess it works for them. And tbh the audienceds here mostly suck, so good for them.

One of my favourite Toronto/Kitchener bands, recording perfect song after perfect song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_4oYiQ-l4w

we had a really good time at the store the other night...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqkyfo_6_E&list=UUwdtlUz1rxjQS60MUrmXEGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BUJwQXgsY&list=UUwdtlUz1rxjQS60MUrmXEGA

Druid Lord are a really good o-town doom band

Dallas/Fort Worth is blessed with an abundance of good bands right now. From my perennial favorites Pinkish Black and Power Trip, to noisy doom weirdos like Terminator 2 and Bludded Head, to straight up death metal like Cleric and Baring Teeth, to free jazz groups like Unconscious Collective, to synth pop art rockers Nervous Curtains, to dub band Sub Oslo and a vibrant hip-hop scene I've barely dipped my toes in besides A.Dd+ and Sam Lao.

I wish the local scene had better support from the community, but it's building. We're starting to see more fully local bills, and there's a promotor now who is booking local only showcases.

I'll throw some links up later when I'm not on my phone.

I've had Hank - Act It Out stuck in my head so far all morning.

I saw these two last weekend:

The Visit: http://thevisit1.bandcamp.com/
vocals + cello: organic, free-flowing compositions with influences from Middle Eastern and Persian music as much as contemporary tonal chamber music (not on the particularly difficult side). Guy is also a big metal fan.

Musk Ox: http://muskoxofficial.bandcamp.com/album/woodfall
Includes the same cellist, as well as classical guitar and violin. Really pretty intricate folk-influenced chamber pieces that they play really well. They did the interludes on the last Agalloch album, apparently. Young guys: the cellist just graduated uni last year.

Every time I load this page that Sons of Guns video starts playing by itself. WTF?

yeah, same here......

dl when I get a connection I'll private link at you some stuff. They're amazing

Cool. Please do. Cheers

Xx post that's weird. Isn't happening to me but apologies all the same.

It's been a very good year for our locals: well received albums from Ronika and Sleaford Mods, a terrific second album from Gallery 47, Indiana's debut due out soon, with Grey Hairs to follow (on Gringo), and Kickstarter funding just secured for Scorzayzee's album. Have also enjoyed the EPs from Youthoracle (grime) and Ryan Thomas (blues), Kagoule are bringing out a single on Earache, and I hope they get wider recognition.

Parashi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruha3h-XhIY

Rambutan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7ETz8lGPY

Fossils From The Sun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5vIHqd2L8

Burnt Hills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ittbE9JnVJU

This is another Louisville metal band that I like. Both of the guitarists are really good.

https://www.reverbnation.com/stonecuttersky?utm_campaign=FacebookSharing_v3&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=thumbnail&utm_content=artist_1075657

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