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[Duchess Tapioca]

I went to a really great concert the other night, it was all local bands from Portland. So unless there's another thread, I think we should have one for people to mention bands from their city that might not be well known elsewhere.

Portland:
The Bella Fayes! (They even relates to the comic!)
Rob Hotchkiss
UHF
Rye Hollow
The Clontarf Ramblers
Geoff Byrd

[El Opium]

From the Quad Cities area and fairly good:
Holy Smokes
Meth,n,Goats
The Winter Blanket
The Marlboro Chorus
Driver of the year

[yipjumpmusic]

yeah there is another thread...I made it, and they say someone made one before me but they did not title it very well since I could not find it...but yeah...there is another one already

[rudeboy]

The Facialz is the only band from my town that isn't emo.
http://www.myspace.com/thefacialz
http://www.purevolume.com/thefacialz

[a pack of wolves]

I put this lot on last night:
Trees, Red Stars Parade, Spasticated Razor Masturbator, Amber Slips, We Are Corpses!!
Also good:
Polaris, Bilge Pump, Duck Stab, Reth, Executive Distraction Tasks, Humanfly, Birds of Prey, Birds of Delay, Whores Whores Whores, The Horror, The Sex Maniacs, Tigers!, Like A Kind of Matador, Agent of The Morai, Das Double Muslim Machine, ChickenHawk, Monster Killed By Laser (well, when they're having one of their good nights), Cowtown, Black Bats... to me, where I live has one of the best music scenes in the world.

[dreemcy]

Attic Daddy
Niagara Region (Ontario)... some live in St. Catharines, others in Port Colborne
Rockabilly/Pscyhobilly
described as "twangsome humour"
a google search surprisingly brings up some related stuff, such as Zombie Night in Canada.

[muffy]

We have meeeeeellions of good bands here (Brighton):

Miss Pain  (electro-porno-fashion)
The Uterus Women (odd-ness)
Teasing Lulu (all girl power pop)
British Sea Power (genius)
Brakes (even more genius)
The Tenderfoot (quaint but good indie-ness)
Pipettes (who are playing tonight but I have mumps and can't go or I'll make Brighton's entire gig-going population really ill...actually, that might be fun!)
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (quality, lack of musical talent is irrelevant here, besides, their tunes are awesome)
Brown Corduroy Express (indie schmindie from a band comprised of Brighton's biggest scenesters)
Dirty Social Disorder (another scenester friendly band)
Star Scream (brilliant electro/screamy/sexy brillance)
Clearlake (moody indie stuff)
Electralane  (electro genius)

We also have Norman Cook and Catskills an Tru Thoughts records based down here, who are ace.

That's all I can think of at the moment, but all those bands are pretty good, and they're all really friendly too...

[victor_smithe]

yeah there is another thread...I made it, and they say someone made one before me but they did not title it very well since I could not find it...but yeah...there is another one already

yeah, i made one of these threads like a year ago... im not sure it would still be findable...

[KharBevNor]

On the Isle of Wight we have a crapload of shite bands and:

ÐEÄTH MËTHØD ( Semi-supergroup. The self proclaimed 'Most evillest band ever')
Equity (Hard rocking Grunge/Riot Grrl kinda thing: way better since they got their new vocalist)
Four Man Riot (Quality streetpunk, but the band themselves are dicks)
Heterodox (Decent punky thrash)
Overlord (Drunken sludge metal bastards)
Screaming Phoenix (More hard thrashing goodness: Their prospective first album 'Shredding Shrapnel' is somewhat of a local legend, having been in production since some time in the mid nineties)
Sleeping Dogs (Darren is in too many sludge bands)
Syrafex (Equity/Overlord joint project. Dual Male/Female fronted sludge is a great thing!)

I am the singer of ÐEÄTH MËTHØD which I suppose gives me some bias towards us ^_^;. Other band members are in Equity, Syrafex, Sleeping Dogs, Overlord and several other local bands (some of which are kinda emo :O) I myself am in two other bands and have an electronica project, but none of them play live, so they don't really count.

[muffy]

FOUND IT!
But I like the new one better, it's a little more condensed.
But here it is, anyway:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4870&highlight=share+local+bandhttp://www.questionablecontent.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4870&highlight=share+local+band

[Kelamin]

Friend of mine's band:

Free by Five

[Kai]

The only real good local band I've found is the Three Businessmen. One of the guys runs a record store and it rocks your face.

[niatinari]

I don't know any local bands anymore since I've just moved to SC, but St. Louis sure had a lot of them.

I loved Orange Tree.  I'm so sad they're gone ;_;

Also, my friends' band Nigh Eve is quite good.  They're in Atlanta.

[SalsaShark]

The only local bands I know of are screamo thanks to the fact that I have a crush on a boy from my school so I go to his bands shows (Don't really enjoy the music, but he's so cuuuute, and it means I get to hang out with him somewhere that doesn't have beige cinderblocks and florecent lights). But there was this one band that I found that I liked.... "No Hollywood Ending", screamo again, but there was one song I liked "He Died Of..."

[rookyoftheyear]

Louisville:
Black Cross, Lords, Coliseum, Brether Resist, Ganthet, Brothers of Conquest, Equal and Ultra.

[LightThievesAll]

Lets see...

Amherst, MA:
Deathamphetamine (sick death/grind, www.myspace.com/deathamphetamine)
Read Yellow (you've probably heard them)
Wasteland (hardcore)
Northern Aggression (bluegrass)
The Prowl (hardcore)

Boston (there are tons, here are some I like a lot):
Tommy and the Terrors (oi/hardcore)
For the Worse (hardcore)
Cut the Shit (wow, more hardcore)
Scissorfight (stoner metal)
Darkbuster (possibly the greatest punk band ever)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed (insane grind)
Toxic Narcotic (crust punk/hardcore/hateful as fuck)
Crash and Burn (punk 'n' roll)
Suicide File (great hardcore)
Slapshot (greater hardcore)
Blue Bloods (punk rock)
The Losing Kind (fucking great punk rock)
so many others...

Rhode Island/southeastern MA:
All Those Opposed (crusty hardcore, www.myspace.com/allthoseopposed)
Dropdead (crust)
Lightning Bolt (you know them)
Doosh Bags (punk, think the Mentors or the Meatmen)
XFilesX (tongue in cheek straight edge hardcore)
Police Beat (thrashy hardcore)
Amazing Royal Crowns (now defunct, the greatest punkabilly band in history)
...

I go to school in Amherst and I'm originally from a small town halfway between Boston and Providence, RI, so I figure I have a right to list bands from many places.

[Jamoky]

I don't go to many local band shows but four of my friends are starting up a pretty rockin' band:
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSkZViyamw

thats actually just one member of the band and his trusty computer, but thats one of the songs their going to play.

Another friends of a friends band I like is "Go on Red," a ska band that broke up: http://www.goonred.com/home.html (check out 'cause of commotion,' under music)

I'm in the SF bay area, by the way.

[liamdeschain]

i'm hailing from syracuse, new york. here's some good ones, you can find pretty much all of them on purevolume.com:

Long Since Forgotten (reeeaaally good make out music)

I AM IDAHO (wicked weird, intense indie drone)

Ghost of the Salt Water Machines (ex. Found Dead Hanging, Word As A Virus)

Engineer (sounds like getting hit in the face with a dumptruck)

Ed Gein (super tech amazing rock your face off)

Belarus (new indie rock pop and roll)


check them all out, it sort of glorifies the different aspects of syracuse! we're not all hardcore (just most of us)

xoxo

[SalsaShark]

Ed Gein (super tech amazing rock your face off)

I'm a little wary of a band that names themselves after that particular serial killer... or is he technically a serial killer? Did they ever prove he murdered more than two people? I know he clamed that some of the bones and skin he used came from him robbing graves...

And wow, I know too much about this stuff.

[Signum_Tenebrae]

Averse Sefira (www.aversesefira.com)

Insane chaotic black metal with QBLH occult lyrical topics!  Heavily influenced by Immortal and Deicide.

[oddball318]

being in Gainesville, there is a fair amount of local music because of the college, but I'm not really up to date on the scene.

Loyal Frisby disbanded over a year ago, which is too bad because they were pretty good indie, and I havent seen the lead guy, a friend of mine, in months.

There is a group named...well, it's Select Start for short, and you gamers should be able to fill in the rest.  They play video game music with strings, a flute, keyboard, and guitar.

And a few weeks ago I ran into a guy who used to be in the same program as me, who basically told me he dropped outta school to start a rock band (him as lead vocals).  I saw them perform and it was pretty good - they're called The Most.

[reva]

warren, pa....

i don't think we have any bands anymore :\  Except maybe a few groups of high schoolers.

The Peabodys used to be our local pop-punk legends, but they've since broke up and and diluted themselves around the country.

[Katili]

There's a band at my college (possibly) called RhythmicCoughing - http://www.rhythmiccoughing.org.uk/ and another who used to be at my college called Idiosyncrasy.

[trill]

The best local band (and some will dispute this, but that's because they're in a 'hardcore' 'band'/morons) is Nik Flagstar and the Panhandle Pair. (www.geocities.com/nikflagstar) They're rockabilly, and the only band that I've never, ever seen play a bad show.

Elyse Therose, when they're having a good night, are really good. Girl fronted indie.
N2O plays pop rock, and they're good but repetative.
Most of the high school bands are boring, boring, boring. "I like the Mars Volta/Underoath/Creed, but I don't feel like I'm ripping them off..." bands.

Aside From Nik and Elyse, though, all the good bands have broken up or moved to Atlanta.

[Simulacra]

i have to "represent"  my own fave local band "Third Grade Scuffle"  I work with the drummer and it's a pretty sweet ska-punk band.  i don't usually go for ska-punk, which means they must be pretty good.

[Trollstormur]

the Horror-movie themed Rap troupe Zombie WHORED! feat. DJ I'll FUCKING KILL YOU.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

we don't have a scene...at all... I can think of two bands I've heard about on my College; Stahlbürgers(it's as far from metal as it gets) and iEnter, both party bands, plays ghostbusters and such - basically just shout-along music for when you are really drunk..
I wanna live somewhere else, this is ridiculous

[Katili]

I'm just going to throw two non-local bands in now.. they play about 300 miles away from me usually, but my friend Trev is the drummer in them

Sacred Silence, and Awkward (www.awkwardrock.co.uk) - I know Awkward generally do covers of KsE and such, not sure about Sacred Silence's stuff, in fact, I think he may even have quit.


Also, a fairly local, once signed, but ditched band - Kinesis.  Theirb fans put up posters and stickers about them around places saying "You are being lied to." about this time last year.

[muffy]

I remember when Kinesis played down here a couple of years back - they spray painted their logo on all the surrounding park benches, walls, houses etc within a half mile radius of the venue they played at...
I went, but felt really bad as they made me feel old. I hate seeing bands who are younger than me.

[bainidhe_dub]

here's a VERY local band, as in they play at the school talent show and their friends' parties, but they've just started recording and are looking into some bigger gigs:
Hydroplayne
cool kids, neat music (none online to listen to yet, but check the newsblurty), check 'em out

[Johnny C]

Sylvie is the only good band in Regina right now.

[asterisk.]

five minute plan
i suppose i'm a little biased since this is my boyfriends band, but seriously, they kick ass. they are likea  progressive punk rockesque band for the guitar lovers (solos!), though, it's really hard to pin them down to a genre. they pretty much do their own thing. i hesitate to say punk rock, because it's not really like punk rock, but ... well, just check them out. here's their purevolume profile.

[zekterellium]

embrace, the music, send more paramedics, john holmes, lucida console, tsar. awesome.

[a pack of wolves]

The Music and John Holmes in the same list? Now that's an unusual mix.

[uberjon]

Ottawa, there are no good local bands. Everyband seems to be 16 year old kids screaming on stage and using a total of 9 chords a show (if you're lucky) and I'm too old for that shit. Although there is this sonic youthish band from here (I can't remember the name), but we also gave you avril lavigne so we're still down a few points. fuck it i'm moving to montreal.

[pistachio]

well.. before they got all label sign-y and everything, Idiot Pilot... went to a lot of their local coffee-shop gigs and what-not... different, but good, they were just on MTV news today too... I was like, thats not right but what are you gonna do?

[mookers]

Elktones, (upside-down !)El Toro!

[La Creme]

Anyone outside of LA who likes delicious indy, I pine for you. The Sugarplastic are a pretty much solely LA band and they rock immensely (immensly?). They're like this ca-razy combination of The Beatles, The Pixies, a lil' bit of Eelsy / Wilco-ey softer rock, The Talking Heads, and (just a wee-tiny smidgeon) Elvis Costello. The singer is anyways.

I highly recomend getting any CDs of theirs you possibly can, as they are one of the best bands i know of. I've never had the oppurtunity to see them live (they pretty much just play the Derby and Spaceland which I think are both 21+).

Also, if you're into ska, i highly recommend seeing The Shennanigans. Although I've heard from the trombonist (who is the man) that they have moved away from their orignal fun, peppy ska and now play noise-rock-ska-fusion crap. And he's the most reliable guy in the band. So poo.

[BrittanyMarie]

I consider any band from North Dakota local, and also some Minnesota ones. Only the gooduns though

This one, Snakehandler, is from Lisbon, ND. Lisbon has a streetlight so it's considered a big town! Their myspace is located right here.

Shirts Vs Skins is a guy with some friends who play with him. He had three other songs up earlier that were tons better, but I think that these are neat as well.

Cut and Run is also pretty good too, I think. They're touring, and you should see them!

Last, but not least(!) June Panic is kind of famous. Did you know that his debut was Secretly Canadian Records first ever release[/u]? Well it was! Another interesting fact is that he is married to the lead singer of Snakehandler's sister (she sings backup on the first Snakehandler song on their myspace, as well!)

[Revenge_Therapist]

These guys are from Chicago but close enough
http://www.fourthrotor.com
http://www.fourthrotor.com/music/mp3s/Seize/The_Anti_Building.mp3
DOWNLOAD THIS SONG!

[_grace_]

i felt the need to post, purely to assert that Perth, Australia, has some damn fine local stuff happening!

Little Birdy are GREAT live. they really are.

Eskimo Joe have recently made it relatively big in Australia- FINALLY!

Jebediah are also brilliant live. although i hate their song with bagpipes. i just hate bagpipes

The Flairz rock unbelievably. three 11 year olds who rock out!

seen these guys live, and i was shocked at how great they were! good ol' perth!

[MilkmanDan]

Oh God, nothing. Well Radiohead, bu they don't really count, as they're a bit, you know, famous. I'm not a great local scene supporter, as my local scene involves singing, and guitars and crap like that. Actually, Nervous Testpilot might be local. He's alright.

[Keith Decent]

I live in NYC... too many bands to even start thinking about favs, but if I had to choose:

No One and the Somebodies
The Vibration
General Miggs

[mizaktik]

Dub Congress

and all the other ones broke up a couple years ago, but anyways:
Sneaky Creekans
Slow Gherkin