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Daniel Lavoie... any other takers?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 7 January 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Alain Renaud.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

got loads but the toppermost at the moment : scaramanga six and soulsavers

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Now We've Got Members

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the Pinefox, solo acoustic. Some other people know about it. The two concept albums are actually most characteristic.

― youn, Friday, 7 January 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(and some other-other people have played some pinefoxery even on the radio, i kno :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, "unknown" is a difficult term. Is Thea Gilmore unknown? If so, she's at the top of the list. If not her, then Rebecca Hollweg...she's gotta be termed "unknown". Check out her album, June Babies.

― roryks, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Jamison Harrison of Santa Rosa, CA.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Fonda 500 - Hull band - top stuff

― Simon Green (fatmancunian), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Kahoots

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

sanchez - ex-member of rosa mota's bedroom recording project.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiger Saw.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 7 January 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

def not unknown, but don't see much mention around, save for the occasional mention in a Sarah/Field Mice thread:

Blueboy

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

sans trauma

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hungry Ghosts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Off the Sky/Color By Numbers

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Right this moment, Butterscott

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

MANHUNTER!

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike Doughty.

Candiria.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Bucky

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ANTI. Solo bass and vocals. The Jandek of heavy metal. Unbelievably awesome. And completely deadpan. And absolutely irony-free. He puts out all his CDs himself. I still need to get a copy of his vocal-free all electric bass CD entitled Instrametal.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, guys. www.manhunterworldwide.com - these guys get better and better every day.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dalida - a French female Tom Waits

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry Norman.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i was listening to Larry Norman the other day.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bruce Springsteen.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 7 January 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Kentucky Gag Order - mpls band....released an album in 2003 called Old Fashioned Sass for the Peacock & the Voyeur....promtply broke up...

i think it might be my favorite rock record of the 90s...a wierd mix of the Fall, Jesus Lizard, but insanely catchy and with a big swampy southern rock feel....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

favorite rock record of the 00s! god i am getting old.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Iran Contras.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The Molestics. Play an off-the-wall style of jazz kinda like Slim Guillard. Brilliant guitarist and a real genius of a frontman who is up there with the likes of Vivian Stanshall as a 4-real super-literate absurdist with a self destructive streak. They made two really fabulous albums "Tropic of Hokum" and "Manufacturing Hokum" in the late 90's, toured a lot on the east and west coast of Canada and America, kinda broke up but still get together and play at least a few times a year but no more recordings. The Golden Wedding Band formed from their ashes but don't really have the same spark.

― nuclearshithat, Friday, 7 January 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Eloe Omoe(Boston)

Heathen Shame (Boston)

Vampire Belt (Northampton, MA)

The Belivers (Northampton, MA)

Defneg (Northampton, MA)

Fat Worm of Error (Northampton, MA)

That's a sweet scene dude.

― Egg, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

people know about vampire belt and fat worm!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Bucky are great!

― Jason J, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Eloe Omoe - wasn't he a Sun Ra, guy?

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean - "a Sun Ra guy?" - no comma.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that unknown, but...

Wolf Parade
Levy
Holmes
Reno's Men
Like Moving Insects

― cdwill, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Please disregard listed items you have heard of. Oh and I forgot, Bug Out Society: Yo Baby 'Sup?

― Egg, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot 8 Brass Band. They've recorded two albums that they're not going to put out now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Maxi Geil & Playcolt

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

from the mid 90's Revelation Records days: Iceburn

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Faux Paws (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, as if i could spell:

FOX PAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

No one including me?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate saying nobody, but:

Resurrector

― Geoffrey Mark Maddock (cutups), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

-Tentacle Lizardo (Detroit) -- okay, they haven't released anything yet; you have to catch them live
-Lee Marvin Computer Arm (Detroit)
-Susanne Brokesch*
-NTX + Electric*

*Not completely unknown, but not exactly superstars, either.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Bellafea (Chapel Hill)
Des_Ark (Durham, NC)
The Aluchatistas (Asheville, NC)
Jett Rink (Durham, NC)
Masturbating In Public (Southern Pines, NC)
Sing! Sing! Prison (Harrisonburg, VA)
Haunted House (???)

― rob mackey (mackey), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Toulouse (from Chicago and Boston in the Nineties, not the Montreal group) probably will be if I can ever find their debut.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, the Pinefox makes records? What his musical, er, philosophy?

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

plot to blow up the eiffel tower
maps and atlases

― Holly (an appletross), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and The Pin Group (who probably would be permanently resigned to obscurity weren't Roy Montgomery so amazing)...they were excellent despite the production on their records (which I find actually endearing, particularly on the excellent "Coat" single).

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Abigail Lapell! She is canadian guitar-frailness lady, but good good good.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

are they working on new material with george Michael ?

― whamwoman, Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone said The Trip? Atlantide is a killer album.

― psychedelic eric, Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Headcount!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the pin group are not unheard of! their siltbreeze cd was distro'ed by matador.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that Matador distro (or being ON Matador) ensures a lack of obscurity (cf. Circle X, HP Zinker) (NOTE: one of these groups I love love love; the other's never been in my kitchen).

Also, if there's any chance more of you folks could actually post some info (or offer links) re: these groups, that'd be swell. (SCOTT SEWARD TO ANTI COURTESY PHONE.) Unless you expect me to go around & do "Vampire Belt" this & "Hungry Ghosts" that for another 80 posts.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

dude Circle X invented no wave, they should be way less obscure.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I know they SHOULD, but when the only info I can remember ever finding about Circle X (online) consists a Matador bio w/ broken pic links (now fixed!), some Dexter's Cigar blurb, & an essay about a Circle X show (from lexiconoclast.com) that's now offline (the essay, not the site) - well, that sucks.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crap - I had no idea Circle X recorded as much as they did!

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have the essay saved? I'd love to read it.

http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=circle_x
Louisville Kentucky Invented No Wave
http://www.pataphysics-lab.com/other/archives/2004_07.html

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, I think I know who runs lexiconoclast.com, I could email her as well.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 8 January 2005 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Freddy K

― babyalive (babyalive), Saturday, 8 January 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the pin group are not unheard of!

Perhaps, but have more than a hundred people actually bought the retrospective?

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 9 January 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Spare Snare
(2-string guitar Scotpop)

― Guayaquil, Sunday, 9 January 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Like Moving Insects"

I second that, but I am biased. Not only are they my friends, but one of our guitarists is their bass player.

That said, I'd still name them.

Also, Mike Wexler out of Brooklyn. The fool doesn't have a website right now though.

Also, Dixie Dirt, but folks in the Knoxville area know who they are.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Aha. Wexler has a couple of (slow loading)songs on www.beekiller.net

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

pin group released the first record on flying nun, they'll always have some sort of reknown just for that.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

these aren't really THAT obscure but:

Jucifer
Nic Endo

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Buried Beds, but I think they're starting to get known.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel sort of stupid for not recognizing any of these guys. well, except bruce springsteen... and the pinefox.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, that's the idea, isn't it?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yes yes but still

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

SUPERCAR. In spite of several fantastic albums and consistently great live performances, nobody outside of Japan has ever heard of them. They're not even very famous within the Empire itself.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

pin group released the first record on flying nun, they'll always have some sort of reknown just for that.

-- keith m (keythkeyt...), January 10th, 2005.

well the renderer's have a heavy connection to flying nun, xpressway and stiltbreeze.. yet they find it hard selling more than 200 copies of their albums..

oh and on that line: bible black (brian crook's side-band)
scorched earth policy (the early 80s nz version)
the weeds
wreck small speakers on expensive stereos (well.. i guess they're fairly heralded, but most people haven't actually heard their material, particularly the non-'River Falling Love' stuff)
Naked Spots Dance
Golden Axe
Disasteradio!
Leper Ballet
Hi-Tone Destroyers
Stefan Van Sooest Hit-Machine
barnard's star
hawaii five-0
the dialtones
the axle-grinders
beautiful losers
vacuum blue ladder (early stapleton/cogle/bill direen)
die! die! die!

all are kiwi, btw

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Tinklepotty is pretty neat (out of Hawaii)

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

> Bucky are great!
> -- Jason J (moronicadisc...), January 7th, 2005.

Yes! More people should know about Bucky! They are one of my favourite bands!!

They're a hyperactive two piece - drums and guitar (and doing it way before the White Stripes). They're a bit like Jonathan Richman and The Sonics and they write songs about horses, ponies, and public libraries.

I think their website has some songs up there and some great video footage...

http://www.buckytheband.com/

― Louie_Strychnine, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

SUPERCAR are great. Exposed to them via SXSW, love the cd. It was fun to watch them pass out flyers in their racecar suits.

― patita (patita), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

jose gonzalez
great lake swimmers

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

OOPS, MISREAD THE QUESTION.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

jose gonzalez
i heart

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Marissa Marchant! Oh wait.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Belacqua, Barbez (NYC).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Moto from Poland

― todd (todd), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Supercar are a lot faster than Super Bike.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

-- chris andrews (fraew@thebi), January 11th, 2005.

Barnard's Star are pretty good. I just got turned on to the Tigers; their Christmas Album is marvelous.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

the jealous girlfriends
paper airplane pilots

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

chalk another one up for Bucky. why they aren't massive yet i'll never know. one of the most entertaining shows ever!

― mark h (mark h), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Azeem

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Azeem was pretty mediocre.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Rebecca Saunders ... known a bit in the classical world but in my opinion she's the new Messaien, sneaking into my ears on a donkey . . . she dices great chunks of silence into thrashes of sound. No one else I know likes Saunders (quite the opposite), and so I am forced to share this here.

― all bunged up (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Leslie Sutter.

― Nayt S., Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

wmlynch -

I'd take that as a deeply personal insult, but this is the wrong thread.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

got loads but the toppermost at the moment : scaramanga six and soulsavers
mark e (mark e) on Friday, 7 January 2005 11:05 (2 years ago)

weird, 2 years ago i posted the above, and today in the pile i have both of these bands latest albums.
the soulsavers new one is easily going to be amongst my top 10 this year, and with the appearance of Mark Lanegan on vocals, i would like to think a lot more are going to get to hear this.

― mark e, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

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