Let your inner hipster out! What's your favourite (relatively) unknown band?
For me it's likely Unexpect out of Montreal with their album In a Flesh Aquarium
Found this band the other day, a really cool emo/mathrock band called The Brave Little Abacus. Check out their album on youtube if you've got 49 minutes and 28 seconds to spare.
The Brave Little Abacus rule! This one's my fav album
Well I've built up a small list of bands while being here
Te' a japanese postrock and mathrock band
フレデリック (Frederic) a japanese indie rock band (love this music video)
The Kiddie a japanese visual kei pop rock band.
Make My Day japanese Metalcore Band
KANA-BOON japanese indie rock (just kidding they're famous as fuck)
和楽器バンド / 千本桜 (this is also very famous but very awesome)
I'm a huge Harvey Danger fan, but pretty much they're only known for their one single. They are so much better than that. They had multiple other CDs all amazing.
I am also a huge fan of Make the Girl Dance's first album, but their new one is not very good. If you listen to this song and then LMFAO's Sorry for Party Rocking there is an obvious influence.
Then finally for the bands that I like but are not remembered properly: Elastica. Many people have heard their single Connection, but the rest of that album is some of the best pop-punk ever. This song is about when she was dating Damon Albarn from Blur.
Yes definitely check them out, Of Montreal is an awesome band. I love them so much.
My favorite albums are Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer and Satanic Panic In The Attic. Satanic Panic In The Attic isn't as weird as much of Of Montreal's later stuff, so you might want to begin with that. If you do, you won't regret it.
I'm a big fan of Jason Molina's projects, such as Songs Ohia and the Magnolia Electric Co., who I guess aren't so well known.
There's an old Shoegaze band called "Catherine" whose "Hot Saki" album I really like
Putting the days to bed by The Long Winters is an album I quite often listen to in the car (they're very middle-of-the-road)
Maybe they're not that obscure, but I certainly hadn't heard of them until about a year or two ago:
Jellyfish. A fantastic 90's band that I can only describe as.... if Weezer and Ween had a baby, and E.L.O. and Queen had a baby, and their babies had a baby it'd come close to Jellyfish. Classic 70's epic rock with a definite 90's sound to it.
Even though I've only recently heard of them, it's quite possible that their ]2nd album 'Spilt Milk'](
The real problem here is that I glorp all my music from other people, so. The things I find on my own occupy a level a few layers more known than "hipster". I'm going to make a few guesses.
Assassin, Capleton, and Super Cat:
And one that I'm more hopeful for:
The Feelers is a band pretty well-known within NZ, but not in the rest of the world. Always thought they deserved to make it big. Here's my one of my favourite Feelers tunes, "Venus" -
One of my favorite bands that isn't too well-known is Old Gray, a screamo from NH
I also love Knocked Loose, a beatdown group from Kentucky
And finally, no one I know seems to know Christine & the Queens a French synthpop group!
I have a bunch more since I self-identify as a cough hipster, but I'll just stick w three :D
Coming out of the Miles Davis quintet, guitarist and legend Jon McLaughlin started The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and created the jazz-rock fusion genre. I wouldn't say they're unknown but they're definitely lost to the times by now. The song lengths, the instrumentation, even the simple persistence of the drums are pretty much imitated and mirrored by the entire psychedelic rock genre at this point– see Tame Impala, Pond, and my other unknown suggestion: the epic Causa Sui.
Yes I have! You recommended it last time Mahavishnu came up, haha:D
I agree it's amazing, but like I told tng I think Abraxas was Santana's best-- it was raw carlos imo.
- Santana used to be awesome long, long ago, before he did collaborations with Rob Thomas and women's shoe designers
When he hit the scene he was a phenom. A teenager playing the same stages as the biggest acts in San Fran in the late 60's. He's mentioned a good deal in Bill Graham Presents, a must read for any fan of rock and roll.
I read his biography in like 6th grade. It gave me a much better image of him as, like you said, a young phenom. The passion coming out of Abraxas was awesome, dude was a prodigy. I think he's just old now. Eh.