Artists to Watch?

[stressed]

Who wants to share their thoughts on acts that are still a bit below the radar but deserve our attention? Who should we be keeping an ear on?

I'm gonna say Tapes n' Tapes and The Art of Shooting.

And no, I'm not in either band, nor are they my friends. Just stuff I've discovered recently that I think is worth mentioning.

Who can you suggest?

[johansen smith]

Thanksgiving
Puerto Muerto

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Brass Castle (http://www.brasscastle.com)
Dirty Projectors (http://www.westernvinyl.com/dirty_projectors.htm)
The Findells (http://www.findells.com)
The Malarkies (http://themalarkies.com)

[tinobeat]

Times New Viking (http://myspace.com/timesnewviking)
Night Rally (http://nightrally.com) (friends of mine)

[TheSadDebaser]

I really liked this band the Bon Bombs but they don't appear to have an internet presence.

I really like the Dirty Projectors' song "My Off-White Flag"! I second that rec.

there's a great band from California called the Sores, but I can't find their website.

I love [url=http://www.myspace.com/sosomanywhitewhitetigers]So So Many White White Tigers.

I really loved the record by The Planet The on 5RC, but I don't see many people talk about them.

I really like the songs I've heard by Colin Clary.

[miss understood]

Band of Horses

[earl grey]

Night Rally (http://nightrally.com) (friends of mine)

a friend of mine really digs these guys, actually ... talks up their shows a bunch.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Alice Texas (http://www.alicetexas.org)
The Martha Dumptruck Massacre (http://themarthadumptruckmassacre.com)
The Nectarine No. 9 (http://www.andyw.com/nectarine9/)
Solbakken (http://www.solbakken.nl)

[soot]

Grizzly Bear
Bound Stems
Tangiers

[Joel]

times new viking is playing here tomorrow night with endless boogie, that's gonna be a scorcher. i think set times are after matmos/so percussion at joe's pub, too. gonna rule.

[tinobeat]

yeah, I'd seriously contemplated making the drive to see the TNB/EB show. but alas.

let me know how that shit is. If its anywhere near as raw and awesome as their album, then goddamn.

[tinobeat]

a friend of mine really digs these guys, actually ... talks up their shows a bunch.

oh awesome. Yeah, they put on a hell of a show, real good stuff. I think they've been going down to NYC more and more often, so hopefully you can catch 'em play.

[bitterfruit]

Times New Viking (http://myspace.com/timesnewviking)


It's hard not to think of early GBV when hearing these guys.

[tinobeat]

yeah, especially with the Mike "Rep" connection (he "lovingly fucked with" both Propeller and this band's record).

I think Siltbreeze's press statement about these guys is sort of ridiculous:
"TNV successfully skirt the current homogenization of the rock press pigeonhole. Neither are they new-weird-America, nor are they newnoise-underground. I suspect Times New Viking are at the forefront of a new, yet-to-be defined movement."

I understand that they're trying to push TNV to the "weird" crowd, but shit, this "yet-to-be defined" movement sounds a whole lot like a movement I remember called "indie rock." That said, this band has restored hope in the re-meeting of scrappy noise and great fucking songs.

[johansen smith]

Band of Horses
I'm with you but I think most people here will hate this.

[miss understood]

Is it the similarity to The Shins? For some reason Band of Horses does everything for me that The Shins never did (and continue not to do). Right up there with Destroyer's Rubies as my favorites of '06 so far.

[johansen smith]

I would say they sound more like a tighter My Morning Jacket really. I don't really hear a Shins-type sound but then again, like you, I can't really get into the Shins at all. I really like the BOH album a lot (tho their demos sounded good enough), but I'm just predicting based on what artists usually get thrashed here, that it won't go over well.

[miss understood]

I hear ya, and agree on the MMJ bit, especially the echo-y vocals. It's the lead singer's voice that most reminded me of whatever the guy's name is from the Shins. Took me a while to place it, but.

Back on topic, I'll add Voxtrot to the list.

[bitterfruit]

I'm with you but I think most people here will hate this.


I love Band Of Horses. South Cackalack in the house byutch!

[Salman]

Perhaps Young and Sexy will be moderately successful outside of Canada this year. I've heard bits and pieces of their new album and I am really enjoying.

[Lukas]

ya we had a thread like this a while back and I mentioned a band called Spiral Beach. They are out of Toronto and make some really sick music.

[Paul]

Perhaps Young and Sexy will be moderately successful outside of Canada this year. I've heard bits and pieces of their new album and I am really enjoying.I like their first two records, so hopefully the new one will fall right in line with those (or be completely different and simultaneously awesome).

[pizzagratis]

not to push my fandom further into streetteamhood, but Troy Gregory and the Stepsisters just put up a song from their forthcoming album and I uhh really really like it

"down the stairs
in the dark
I hit my head
on the top of the world
(garbled)
oh exercise,
yeah, completely"

Its on their myspace page. Suppose my not leaving the address for that might keep this not being spam.

[stressed]

Awesome, glad this thread took off.

Also, websites for the bands I mentioned:

Tapes 'n Tapes: http://www.tapesntapes.com (experimental indie pop)

The Art of Shooting: http://www.theartofshooting.com (art rock/post-punk)

[Susan Kirk]

One of the members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has been photographed wearing a shirt that says TAKKA TAKKA. I finally found their website, and they sound nothing like the Clap, which means they sound pretty damn good. Lovin' the first two songs they have up on their site.

www.miserynews.com

[9000]

and they sound nothing like the Clap, which means they sound pretty damn good.

weren't you really big on "the clap"? i remember you being one of the early rah-rah people.

[george]

Back on topic, I'll add Voxtrot to the list.

hey! i know those guys. some of them work in my office.