I PMed you :)

Special Disaster Team- local band, I graduated wiht the members, it's a punk ska group, and they're pretty good... Just got back from their first tour... Still trying to get a deal with a major label, still producing records in their mother's garage.

Falcon 5-O- these guys opened for the Big Red Rally this year, they rocked hardcore... Check out their single, "Dirty Hot Girl"

Anyone reading this should check out Teitur!! it's really mellow..kinda makes me think of James Taylor...

You anti-mainstream weirdos need to listen to songs that play on the radio more often.

-Rudey

I am not ani-mainstream at all.
I just also enjoy all music..and it isn't always mainstream...this thread is to inform others about good music that they probably haven't heard because it isn't mainstream.

Yeah...I believe you.

-Rudey
--Now go burn a Starbucks hippy girl.

Yeah let's all blare some Justin Timberlake for Rudey!!!

Say it loud, "I"m anti-mainstream and I'm proud"

The radio honks.

I'm going through my mp3 collection.


Wolfie! They're a little strange and some people don't find them accessible but I love "You're Lucky I'm Skinny" and "Yeah Yeah You" and "Hello Saturday."

I forget if Allister was mentioned yet but if so, those of you who like cheesy generic pop-punk (like me) will get a kick out of them. My favorites are "The One That Got Away" and "Pictures."

Basement Jaxx makes really dance-able music although they have been getting bigger lately so you might have heard of them (they had a song in the Bend It Like Beckham soundtrack).

More Wisconsin love: the Benjamins are fantastic. Apparently there is a Welsh band by the same name but I imagine they aren't as good. They've got kind of a classic Weezer sound. Try "Gave It Away," "Wonderful" and "Sophia on the Stereo."

The Candyskins are the only Brit pop that I ever really liked. A little bit like Blur or Oasis but catchier.

The Weakerthans: a little bit emo/indie, but good emo.

Student Rick: Old school pop-rock -- a little Weezerish.

Sloan: I'm not sure how I'd classify these guys -- maybe in the Dismemberment Plan/Imperial Teens category, although they are catchier.

Reggie and the Full Effect: Really catchy pop-rock with a little punk thrown in for good measure. My favorites are "Your Boyfriend Hates Me" and "Everything's Okay."

Pat McCurdy: As far as I know, this guy's hit that epitomizes the college lifestyle, "Sex and Beer," has not left Wisconsin and Minnesota. It should. We always listened to it last year when we were drinking the dorms.

OK Go: These guys have gotten a little bigger lately so you might have heard of them too, but they make the catchiest good pop music that I have ever heard since Fountains of Wayne. I don't know anybody who hasn't become an immediate fan after hearing "You're So Damn Hot."

Motion City Soundtrack: I saw these guys last year opening for the Starting Line and they're great. They're starting to get really big within the pop/punk/rock circuit so if you start listening to them now you might beat the bandwagon. ;)

Fall Out Boy: These guys are incredibly; they're my new favorite band. They come from the same pop-punk-with-a-touch-of-emo school that Starting Line and MCS do.

Mason Jennings: He's like all the boy singer-songwriter-guitarists that have cropped up lately but he's smarter. He's written some of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, starting with "California" and "California #2" and "Darkness Between the Fireflies."

Okay Basement Jaxx were pretty big dance wise about 2 years ago up here with the song "Were's Your Head At?".... cool album cover too (it's the one with the albino ape).

Sloan is very common up here, and has been for about five years, played on radio, bars, tv. To classify them I'd compare them to Weezer (one of the more common comparisons), but they describe themselves as "geek rock" or "nerd rock".

However I will have to check-out some of the bands you mentioned.... they may be good but haven't broke out of their region yet.

:) I'm dancing right now thinking about it :)

-Rudey
--He's my hero

I wouldn't compare Sloan to Weezer simply because I think they are "darker," which puts them more into the Imperial Teens category for me -- but I suppose they are more like Weezer in the fact that they are less "jammy" than IT and their songs tend to be faster and lyrics tend to be catchier.

It's funny how music can be so different in different countries -- some of the stuff that is huge in Britain and Australia and even Canada never even makes it onto the radio here.

I think Basement Jaxx is starting to blow up even here though; my ex-boyfriend showed me the "Romeo" video last winter and every since then I've heard "Do Your Thing" everywhere -- I think that was the song that was on the Bend It Like Beckham soundtrack, and it's also on the SSX3 soundtrack which I played religiously this fall while avoiding studying for midterms.

Also for dance music I LOVE Madison Avenue's "Don't Call Me Baby" but I heard the rest of their music is not so good so I'm not holding my breath.

I don't know if anyone's mentioned The Darkness. I saw them on the MTV Europe Awrads. They have a cool sound, kinda like Queen.

Exit Broadway. Cute boy with a girlfriend who needs to break up with her for me is in it.