radtz
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Does Honeymoon Suite count? New Girl Now and Wave Babies
Favorite Small Bands?
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Midgetje94
Friend of Leo's
oh no I mean sound wise. Right at home with the Texas boys
radtz
Tele-Holic
I never realized how many Canadian bands I'm into. Coney Hatch is another one.
Midgetje94
Friend of Leo's
there’s one I thought was pretty great. Carl Hayes maybe? Give me a few I’ll dig it up lol
edit: I was close lol Hayes Carll. But apparently he’s another Texas guy lol. I could have sworn he was Canadian. It’s bugging me now. Who was I thinking of? Very similar to him.
Both may get flagged here. But too good not to share
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I loved The Producers “back in the day,” and I still do. If you saw them in Wisconsin in the ‘80s, it is very likely that I booked or promoted the show. And when the band reunited in 2000 I was their booking agent for several years. A great band then, and a great band today. They are still out there playing occasionally. I suspect that there is a good chance they’ll be in Wisconsin in 2022.
radtz
Tele-Holic
I never saw them live, but I wouldn't pass up the chance this time around.
IMMusicRulz
Tele-Meister
I love Damone. They were a pop punk and power pop band from Boston, MA in the 2000s. One of my favorite rock bands as a teenager. I mostly found out about them because their song Frustrated Unnoticed was on the soundtrack to Rugrats Go Wild. Their lead singer and guitarist Noelle Leblanc is super attractive and a very good songwriter, but for the longest time I always thought she was a boy.
I just started listening to their music again. They really have that Jimmy Eat World, Michelle Branch/Avril Lavigne sound to their music.
I just started listening to their music again. They really have that Jimmy Eat World, Michelle Branch/Avril Lavigne sound to their music.
Midgetje94
Friend of Leo's
actually very familiar with their stuff. But 10-15 years ago or however long. That’s the stuff we were playing. That whole pop punk/emo wave
one of my favorite female fronted groups from back then
Dallas based band. Miss them a lot actually. Pasted the wrong link. Haha these were the local group I meant to paste
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The song came to Smithereens’ frontman Pat DiNizio quickly. His band were playing in Boston, sharing a bill with a group called The Bristols, whose bassist Kim Ernst immediately caught DiNizio’s attention. We don’t need to imagine what he saw in her because it’s all there in the first verse of the song.
“She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton, back in 1965
She had legs that never ended
I was halfway paralyzed
She was tall and cool and pretty
And she dressed as black as coal
If she’d ask me to, I’d murder
I would gladly lose my soul”
Nursing a hangover on a People Express plane back from Boston, DiNizio wrote down the words on a cocktail napkin. The melody came at the same time: “I’m singing the thing to myself for the whole flight, like a mantra, so I don’t forget it. Then I get stuck in traffic for two hours and I’m nearly losing my mind, because I knew I had a good song.”
I met Kim a couple of times, she was friends with a friend's band. Absolute smokeshow in the day, and she could play. He picked a good muse
Redd Kross is amazing, one of a kind. I grew up in Georgia, but became good friends many years back with a guy from Redondo Beach who introduced me to a few west coast acts, Redd Kross being one of them. This was right before Phaseshifter came out. I went out to see them the following summer at UCLA arena (basketball?) and they blew the roof off. Their guitar dude at the time, Eddie Kurdziel, was exceptionally good. One my most memorable shows. I saw them again when they were on tour for their Researching the Blues record at the Black Cat in DC—downstairs—and they were just as amazing.
They’re a unique band to a fault. The corporate label jaggoffs didn’t know what to think.
homesick345
Poster Extraordinaire
Sean Costello sings & plays/played proper guitar, in my book. Way better than the "big names" infesting the blues
Whatizitman
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That band was Catherine Wheel. The most important band most people have never heard of.
gimmeatele
Friend of Leo's
runstendt
Tele-Meister
My personal definition of a “small” band would be a band that had regional or even some national success, but only a single hit or so. Using this definition, my two favorites would have to be Fountains of Wayne and Drive by Truckers. If you can get past “Stacy’s Mom”, FOW has some seriously well written and well crafted recordings, almost like a more modern version of the Kinks. DBT has some incredible story songs, and generally produces a good groove behind them.
Centro-Matic
Skyhook
Tele-Afflicted
From around these parts of the universe I'd go with Lowely Worm, Sezuan Swap Meet and Generators.
Honorable mention to my own music project as one of my main guidelines for style is "music I want to hear at this moment in time".
Honorable mention to my own music project as one of my main guidelines for style is "music I want to hear at this moment in time".
bottlenecker
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Now to me his guitar style, voice, and poetry are all pure appalachia, but it might just be in my head because I know where he's from. I almost feel like I'm in the smokies when I hear him.
