Let's talk about local music, y'all.

I originally intended this to be a thread about Tyagaraja, a local musician that specializes in eastern-tinged ballads. Instead, I thought it might be a good idea to share everyone's favorite local and unheard of bands that for whatever reason are very talented but can't seem to garner national attention.

Here's what I originally posted when this thread was called simply "Tyagaraja," to kick things off:

I really hope this guy makes it. He's a staple here in Houston and gets most of his exposure in traditional ways; in-store performances, guest spots on local radio, flyers, that sort of thing. Cosmic Jelly, for sure, but I think his sincerity is quite refreshing. He wears his influences all the way down his sleeve, but he just sings it so well.





http://tyagaraja.com/

I feel like I might have played a role in inspiring this thread.

I'm very much hoping that a gem from The Infatuations makes its way into this thread before page three.

dr dog and hall & oates. who wants some?

Local to you, sure. But they are far from unheard of.

i wanna talk about lenny's city's musicians

no shit, everyone loves both of them. you want people never heard of? there's a jazz band that plays in rittenhouse square, i'll go film them, they are awesome.

That sounds like just the thing this thread needs. By all means, share!

I read an article in Spin magazine about the rap game in Huntsville. I plan on one day being a significant contributor to it's success.

dont forget the hooters and benie seigel

Minneapolis for the win.

We have cities in Australia too you know

The Jezabels would be the best recent band out of my city. Been following them for a couple of years now, after 3 very satisfying EPs they released their debut album last year which recently beat Goyte to win the prestigious Australian Music Prize.

Don't think they've been to the US yet, but they're starting to build a bit of following in the UK/Europe.

Unique sound with intelligent lyrics, if I were to sum them up I'd say Kate Bush meets Arcade Fire meets PJ Harvey. Check em out:

Spoiler: show

Folly, nonsense, state inevitable
Tamperproof package of yoghurt
Hunger, poverty, misunderstanding,
Brazil is Bullshit Champion

When I repeated the 5th grade E,
I would take an E, D, occasionally a C
More than ten minutes passed up
Cê, cê, cê, cê cê Cererê

The police is the justice of a dog world
August always has vaccination
In the political future of a country
Shut up and take your finger off the nose

When I repeated the 5th grade E,
I would take an E, D, occasionally a C
Over ten thousand years have passed
Cê, cê, cê, cê cê Cererê

When I repeated the 5th grade E,
Over ten thousand years have passed

Mamonananas, mamonananas, mamonananas,
Mamonananas, mamonananas, mamonananas
Assasinananas

When I repeated the 5th grade E,
He took E, D, occasionally a C
Over ten thousand years have passed
Cê, cê, cê, cê cê Cererê.

Spoiler: show

Meet you all bleary and all fuck'd up
Delivered to drink at a bar
I cut the hair of the armpits and toenails
called you sweetheart
I taught all auto-reverse life
and translational movement that makes the earth spin
I told you that the important thing is to compete
but will kill you if you do not slam win

You were now the most important thing
that ever happened to me right now,
in my whole life
A paradox of the imperfect,
complex with the theory of relativity
In a crucial moment a wise learned to know
the whistling thrush knew
And who amafagafar the mafagafinhos
a good amafagafigador will be.

Told that the pediatrician is the doctor
responsible for the health of the foot
The zoista cares for Zoio and optician
God forbid I will never touch my
For you, you are a mythological beast
with kinky hair similar to Medusa
I said this rhyme prac
with the sum of the square of the legs
equals the fucking hypotenuse

You were now the most important thing
that ever happened to me right now,
in my whole life
A paradox of the imperfect,
complex with the theory of relativity
In a crucial moment a wise learned to know
the whistling thrush knew
And who amafagafar the mafagafinhos
a good amafagafigador will be.

I founded the International Association
Protection of the Butterflies of Afghanistan
I tasted a B plus C that Apple of one's eye
Have no period.
Give a dish of wheat and practical two tigers
see the animals fighting is cool as fuck
For the "strip and put" lets get life
'll always be your slave-to-Job

Just when you were almost understand
What the hell I'm talking about.
the song is ending and
there's Creuzebek lowering the volume
and you do not understand anything anyway
why when you are in your home right now
music will be shorty
and you will not understand anything not even know what I'm talking about this pile of crap
now it's all ... fuck, let's stop this talk boring!
C'mon, I'm not holding more
my throat hurts
I have to do there gargle with vinegar
let a fart in here (holly fuck!)
Stinky is the environment my fingers are numb
For God's sake, stop this shit!

Mamonas Assassinas (Translated as a Brazilian satirical phrase of ambiguity between "Boobs" and "Castor Oil Plant" known in some parts of Brazil such as "Mamona") was a satirical Brazilian rock band. Their lyrics, music and live performances were as famous as their tragical end: on March 2, 1996, the plane in which they were flying, crashed into the Cantareira mountain range, near São Paulo, killing all band members.
The band's name carries a double-entendre as, in Portuguese mamonas can be either the name of the Castor oil plant, which contains the highly toxic comount ricin (their logo incorporated a castor bean) or the augmentative for mamas, meaning breasts (which were prominently pictured on the album cover). The band even translated the name into English as "Killer Big Breasts".

Mamonas Assassinas members employed a humorous mixture between a wide range of styles. They often borrowed elements from other music, among which were the main riff of the Portuguese Vira ("Vira-Vira"), Northeastern Brazilian rhythms like forró ("Jumento Celestino"), Mexican music ("Pelados em Santos"), heavy metal ("Débil Metal"), sertanejo ("Bois Don't Cry"), and even pagode ("Lá Vem o Alemão"). This combination can be easily checked at their videos, where various references to many cultures were found.

Members

All of them were born in Guarulhos, except Dinho, who was born in Irecê, a town from Bahia state.
Alecsander Alves (known as Dinho) - vocals
Alberto Hinoto (Bento Hinoto) - guitar
Samuel Reis de Oliveira (Samuel Reoli; "Reoli" is a contraction of the last names Reis and Oliveira) - bass guitar
Júlio César Barbosa (Júlio Rasec; Rasec is "César" spelled backwards) - keyboards, backing vocals
Sérgio Reis de Oliveira (Sérgio Reoli; Samuel's older brother) - drums

Seriously, One of the best Brazilian bands, and they were from my town... Some parents of mine even got to know this guys.
Funny as hell to.
HB got to agree with me.

some kid killin it w/ a violin


jamican on 1/2 a drum set w/ some idiot dancing


this wasnt who i was talkin about, but the dude on the banjo plays at that park all the time.

Are you from one of those "non-traditional" families?

Ahem...

The following bands and musicians call or called Portland their home:

The Kingsmen
The Wipers
Dead Moon
Crackerbash
Pond
Sleater-Kinney
The Shins
The Decemberists
The Thermals
Quasi
Wild Flag
Corin Tucker Band
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper
Menomena
Stephen Malkmus
M. Ward
Elliott Smith
Johnny Marr (The Smiths)
Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse)
Britt Daniel (Spoon)
Steve Turner (Mudhoney)

For this thread's purposes, your city's signed bands aren't as interesting as your city's unheralded/unheard little engines.

mostly college kids with no life experience trying to sound like poor southerners from the 60s and 70s.

some good stuff that i will post later though.