25 Top Picks from my iTunes that you’ve probably never heard (outside of my Facebook stream). Mind you, this is for the "general public" (I.E. Not for those like me who constantly devour music magazines). A lot of these groups are featured frequently in magazines or are viral in the underground music world (here or elsewhere). Enjoy!
P.S. DO NOT ILLEGALY DOWNLOAD THIS STUFF IF YOU LIKE IT! If you do, don't complain when there's only shit music on the radio.
P.S.S. Don't support We Are the Fallen. They are American Idol trash that is just trying way too hard to recreate Evanescence. Ben Moody, get over it. Amy Lee was a bitch, your days in the band ended. Please, stop. Rocky, you're still awesome. Find another band. Evanescence is just garbage anyways.
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25 Top Picks from my iTunes that you’ve probably never heard (outside of my Facebook stream
Smoke Fairies – Living With Ghosts
Heavy on the Blues influence, Smoke Fairies belch out a folk-pop hymn in all its glory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ey8UQ21_jk
WetDog – Perfect Crime
A fast paced, commercial worthy indie tune and that it is. Just listen already!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctwZp82MeLw&feature=related
Russian Circles – Station
Purely instrumentals, this is nearly 9 minutes of relentless hard rock. Feel the intensity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyZ4z662v5w
Pulled Apart By Horses – Back to Fuck Yeah
Full on screaming made tolerable with a melodic and sometimes poppy undertone. Too much? Try for the more mainstream Brand New.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzDz5wVs8uw
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
Music fans should be promised more songs like this. Scottish, sullen, and surprisingly tasteful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZhBAylbN4
The Cliffs – Ordinary Eyes
The bastard child of Grunge and modern indie studio rock, this is what Nirvana would have sounded like if they had been more polished and refined and… foreign.
http://www.purevolume.com/thecliffs
Birds of Tokyo – The Saddest Thing I Know (AMERICANS don’t know them. What a shame…)
Australian group Birds of Tokyo drives their new single home with a brackish Ragtime-Alternative-Hard Rock number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBY97wkDmcI&playnext_from=TL&videos=t453R4GWsxI
Chase Long Beach – We’ve Got Pockets Like Nobody’s Business
Chase Long Beach boasts having another flame-haired beauty with a hearty voice in the music business. It may not be Hayley Williams, but its second best. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Big D and the Kid’s Table, and every female fronted punk-pop band converges on one plot in “We’ve Got Pockets Like Nobody’s Business” to make a stellar tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3vvgrnoWY&playnext_from=TL&videos=NwPEAnwRjT0
Deals Gone Bad – Movin’ On
Soul, punk, The Verve, Spose, music to make babies to, this song’s got it all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qWzqzEYAc&playnext_from=TL&videos=oneYuUrTjkQ
Isles and Glaciers – Hills Like White Elephants
As one of the “higher end” songs on the list, Isles and Glaciers creates the emo genre while adding a little Michael Jackson caliber vocals without making you cringe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJI4FXuadrM&playnext_from=TL&videos=aBmaEYfl9KQ
Autopilot Off – Make A Sound
A slot on Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution demo CD is probably the most success this band has ever seen. Now defunct, Autopilot Off is probably one of, if not the best, early millennium punk-pop band to have emerged from the craze. This is a band that knew they weren’t going to be big, but made the best of it. With great vocal melodies and a charging beat to complement, “Make A Sound” (also the title track) is a song that seems to end faster than it should.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxEl041AiJ8
MUCC – Libra
For the record, the average American does not speak Japanese. But that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying this song. This is what Octane would sound like if it were a Japanese oriented station. Awkward lyrics in a creeping circus breakdown into thick instrumentals, creating a new face for nu-metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vKExq2Lx4&playnext_from=TL&videos=lf143iZmdz8
Butterfingers – Bomb the Bass
Smooth. P.S. This is Australian mainstream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8lcGoS9Yc&playnext_from=TL&videos=dpwJGtsrnDg
Far – Water & Solutions
http://www.myspace.com/far
Totimoshi- The Dance of Snakes
http://www.myspace.com/totimoshi
Yelawolf – Pop the Trunk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOhPY3Y5yU
The Cliks – Back in Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIdvlCuTQj0
Closure – Look Out Below (If you’ve seen Darkness Falls, you know this song.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV0Eujk3UK4
Dead Letter Circus – Tremors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0DAmir4tEo
Fit for Rivals – Girl in a Coma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2m2MeXS9_4
Girl in a Coma – Clumsy Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gJ5iiEBp0
Jets to Brazil – Sea Anemone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2jU5jcGGzc
Marina and the Diamonds – Oh No!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1t77mkzVko
Scarling – City Noise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hocz1febG5A
Closure in Moscow – Sweet#hart
That Jesus frock is real. He really does sign like a God on this Warped Tour ready, Asian tinged punk trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi08y-A39S0
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