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
Born of black wind, fire, and steel
Sawbones
Kwang
Me
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
What are we going to do with all these monkeys?
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
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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.
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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
Sepsis (lol my old band of course)
Catalyst A
Cwn Annwn (and there still kicking too with a female now)
WITH.
Boo laka laka laka boo laka laka laka - Sly and the family stone.
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:
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.
“It's called a hangover sweetie, and it's an unavoidable fact of life” - Homer Simpson
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?
Number Johnny 5
Zebulon Pike
Self Evident
Redoverlunar
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