Who are your top ten local bands?

 Mine are as follows:

10. Black Days Down www.myspace.com/blackdaysdown

9. Far From Falling www.myspace.com/farfromfallingmusic

8. A Verse Unsung www.myspace.com/averseunsung

7. Attention www.myspace.com/attention

6. Between Two Skies www.myspace.com/betweentwoskies

5. Throw The Fight www.myspace.com/throwthefight

4. Johnnyrook www.myspace.com/johnnyrook

3. Absent I www.myspace.com/absenti

2. Fragile www.myspace.com/fragile

1. Drift Effect www.myspace.com/drifteffect

Those are my top ten. Who are yours? I want to know.

Thoughts on mine?

In no particular order:

Pretty Boy Thorson and the Falling Angels - http://www.myspace.com/prettyboythorson

The Grande Machine - http://www.myspace.com/grandemachine

Action Versus Action - http://www.myspace.com/actionvsaction

God's Favorite Band - http://www.myspace.com/godsfavoriteband

Animal Gods - http://www.myspace.com/animalgods

Luther the Devil - http://www.myspace.com/davethejeweler

20 Dollar Love - http://www.myspace.com/20dollarlove

The Skullcranes - http://www.myspace.com/skullcranes

Corpse Show Creeps - http://www.myspace.com/corpseshowcreeps

The Hard Left - http://www.myspace.com/thehardleft

I'm not big on the local scene but here goes.

1. Happy Apple

2.Fat Kid Wensdays.

3. Dosh

4. Knife World

5. Mongoo Music

6. Stained Glass Rabbit

7. Between Two Skies

8. Pharmacy Repomen

9.We Are All the Machine.

10.Absent I

My top 10 of currently active bands in no particular order:

STNNNG

Casanatra

In The Morning

Vampire Hands

Falcon Crest

Singlespeed

Middlepicker

Signal to Trust

20 Dollar Love

Dallas Orbiter

 Currently Active:

10: Far Forbidden

9: We are Legion

8: After the Burial

7: Tepetricy

6: Listed Red

5: Gallows Burden

4: For Blood

3: Buried By Hope

2: Rivkit

1: Epicurean (i know, they're signed now but whatever)

I'm sure I forgot someone and will change my list within a week, ha

1. Absent I

2. Weaver at the Loom

3. Casanatra

4. Breanne Duren   (check this girl out. shes incredible)

5. Down and Above

6. After the Burial

7. Houston    (I dont care if they are done and over.. I will always love this band)

8. Destrophy   (I know they are from Iowa.. But relatively local)

9. Dahn Knight

10. Niobium (I think they are doing some very interesting stuff)

I am also really digging on Johnnyrook, Saving One, Bastard Saint, and Singlespeeds stuff lately.

For Blood

The Body Beneath

Impaler

Six Six Crush

Blue Ox

Yes im Cocky

 houston

quazar (and anything else guanzon has his hands in)

blue ox

buried by hope

dead hands rising

heiruspecs

less than nothing

Atmosphere

iced ink

ACTIVE BANDS? OR EVER?

as far as active:

autumn

cwn annwn

risingfall

molly dean

demonicon

human a.d.

aesma daeva

epicurean

i honestly can't come up with 2 more bands bands i even would listen to on my own time here.

 Here's 3 -- Dander, the Blue Mollies and Little Man.  I loved Jehovah's Shitlist!  It's too bad they're done, that was a f--ng fun band to watch.

I know that there's some uncertainty as to whether or not Dander is still active, but when isn't there a bunch of uncertainty around them.  Pete Rex, care to clear this up?  At any rate, Shane is a great writer.

 I think they are on deep, deep hiatus. I don't think the idea of Dander will ever die, so long as Shane is around, but it's just been hard for them to get a stable line-up. And now Jen is out for medical reasons for a while.

--pete

One word... (for those of you that weren't at Art-A-Whirl)

ARCWELDER

There... I can't continue (sorry).

After the Burial

Belles of Skin City

Sunset Black

Claire de Lune

Sue Generis

B!

Esuna

Manic Euphoria

Bloodwilltell

Islero

Here is an OLD List:

i use to LOVE these fuckers back in the day (remember topher)

SLIGHTED

Hook Echo

SubNormal

Casanatra (and there still around)

LINGO

B!

Sepsis (lol my old band of course)

Catalyst A

Cwn Annwn (and there still kicking too with a female now)

WITH.

There are a bunch of really good local bands.  I dig...

Stereoscope

Charlz Newman

Motion Pilots

Barfly

Kangaroo

Sunshine Behavior

Oceans (biased as I may be, they're great musicians).

And not because there's some sort of "bandwagon" on here (as some like to say), but I've really dug some of the recordings by:

Casanatra

All The Way Rider

Owen Sartori (really love the production and songwriting of his latest effort).

And those are merely ones I've come into contact with as of late.  There are a lot of "good" bands that attract negative attention, such as

Drift Effect.  They really did do a good job when we played with them.  I personally don't consider their music "outdated", because EVERYBODY'S doing EVERYTHING right now.  It's pretty much a free for all, and music just ends up being a mixture of what the bandmates are into anyways.  Ultimately, the public shall decide the victors.  They took a dig at my band for laying out some covers at a benefit show - but the establishment wanted that from us (along with originals we played), so it was unprofessional of them to do so.  They should keep their arrogance in check.  But time will teach them...and it's not like there are any hard feelings.  It's just that they should be careful in situations like that.  Could come back to bite 'em in the arse.

Theatre Of The Epilordean Hymenfall

Lorenzo--What benefit show was that?  Are you sure it was someone in the band?  It just seems weird that any of us would talk shit, especially about covers..at a benefit nonetheless... who cares break em out.   I guess it doesn't matter--if it was someone in the band or someone associated with us it is still the same and we apologize profusely.

 Yes, it was the lead singer, at the B.A.C.A. event - right before playing "Alive", by Pearl Jam...which was executed quite well, I might add.  Anyways, I wouldn't call it "shit-talking" per se...but it did seem directed at us.  It was something along the lines of "...guess we'll play a cover", and it had a certain guess we'll stoop down to the last band's level tone. And the thing is, we would've only played one or two covers at that show - but they asked us (mid-performance) to put on an extended set.  I think I might even have the napkin that the promoters wrote it on.  :)

Anyways, I appreciate your response - I can see that it wasn't directed at us (if you're the lead singer), and all is definitely well.

Why do you keep old napkins?

 Zebulon Pike

Self Evident

Redoverlunar

After the Burial

We Are Legion

Blue (R)Ox

Autonomy

Casanatrain

*Gabriel and Thee Apocalypse

*In The Fields

High Hopes

Vocal Shrapnel

 *(biased is witheld as I am not performing with the groups at the moment

Tebangoslicho

GOOTS:

Why do you keep old napkins?

 It was stuck underneath a pedal on my pedalboard.

Lorenzo-

It was not a snide remark directed at you at all.  Amber (put benefit together) asked if we could play longer to cover time.  We hadn't planned on playing that song that night as we were going to give it a rest (we had played it quite a bit in the preceeding months).  Anyway, not directed at you a