Your fave "I found this band"

[BVS]

Most of us have that one band that "you found" that you share with everyone and try and convert them to fans.

So who's your "I found this band" band?

 

[indra]

I don't think I really need to name them, since I manage to get them in damned near every thread anyway. . You all should listen to them. You know you should. And buy all their albums, yeah. And tickets to their live shows. And various and sundry merch stuff also. Buy, buy, buy. Get going now!


...but for newer bands that even fewer people have heard of I have two. Art of Fighting and Gersey.

 

[IWasBored]

just one?

must resist trying to make a list of posters here and what i perceive to be their "i found this band" band


i guess mine is probably the ducky boys. but i try to convert everyone to like every band i'm ever psyched about. that's why i do college radio.

 

[BVS]

that's why i do college radio.

Does that mean you listen to college radio, or do you dj?

I djed for my college radio station when I was in college and loved every minute.

 

[impy13]

Coldplay

but that was a long, long time ago

 

[IWasBored]

Does that mean you listen to college radio, or do you dj?

I djed for my college radio station when I was in college and loved every minute.

dj. i've been doing a show since the spring semester of 2003, and it's the most fun thing ever.

i really should listen to the station regularly, but i almost never do. i hate listening to the radio even when they're playing good music, because i need to know at all times what i'm hearing. if i sit and listen when i'm at the computer, constantly refreshing the internet playlists (if the dj is updating it regularly, i know sometimes i slack off during my show with updating mine) i'll know, but that's like work.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I started the first Franz Ferdinand thread here a year or so ago.

No one posted in it.

 

[gareth brown]

Polysics.

my friend and I have tried spreading the word for nearly two years now about how great they are and they have a pretty big fanbase in Bath thanks to us, I dare say...

and now i expect they'll be pretty big next year because they're supporting Kaiser Chiefs on a UK tour, meaning a ton of hip scenesters who dress in hats and ties because it's ironic will all suddenly go on about how they've discovered this great band when they ignored us all that time ago...

 

[HelloAngel]

The Kills

 

[If you shout...]

The Secret Machines.

Autolux is up there, too...as well as a host of other bands.

 

[1stepcloser]

The Rakes

 

[beau2ifulday]

Brazilian Girls

 

[LMP]

The Strokes/Ringside

 

[alia612]

The Weather Machines

 

[pepokiss]

I've never found a band

 

[lazarus]

Phoenix (from France).

Just trying to help international relations...

 

[elevation2u]

not a band but hardly no one knows who Willy Mason is

 

[Tarvark]

Fiction Plane

Speaking of which they might merit a thread here!

 

[gareth brown]

Phoenix (from France).

Just trying to help international relations...

haha

 

[bayernfc]

Tangiers and Bedouin Soundclash

To my severely musically-challenged friends, Manic Street Preachers and the Mescaleros

 

[Jack In The Box]

65daysofstatic and God Is An Astronaut

 

[U2IrishOne]

David Gray - way before the babylon days.

 

[IWasBored]

Tangiers and Bedouin Soundclash

To my severely musically-challenged friends, Manic Street Preachers and the Mescaleros

i don't know tangiers. tell me something about them/it.

 

[clifedge]

Jason Harrod- I'm still in the process of letting people know about him.

 

[LMP]

Phoenix (from France).

Just trying to help international relations...

Phoenix rules

 

[RA-D]

Manic Street Preachers


or, if anyone is discounting bands that have at some point been popular,

Morning Runner or Pollen

 

[the rockin edge]

Bruce Cockburn

 

[bayernfc]

i don't know tangiers. tell me something about them/it.

It was their brilliant energetic live show that did it for me. They're Toronto based, one of the better garage/new wave revival bands, but I hate categories so I don't know if that description fits.

3 albums so far:

Hot New Spirits-2003
Never Bring You Pleasure-2004
The Family Myth-2005


I can send you a few of their tracks if you'd like.

 

[Zoomerang96]

broken social scene and arcade fire

 

[Harry Vest]

The Gunshy
The Handsome Family
Aereogramme