You listen to different bands?

[revil]

You have any music you listen to that they don't normally put on the radio?

I like to listen to some techno-ish music which I haven't ever heard on the radio such as Antiloop, Aphex Twin, Bomfunk MC's, Astral Projection, Cynic Project, Daft Punk, etc. Punk / Ska is another genre i like so i listen to groups like bad religion (i love those guys), lagwagon, mighty mighty bosstones, less than jake, etc. Another good group is nada surf.

I also like japanese music like Glay, Ayumi Hamisaki, Utada Hikaru (i hear she's working on an english album), Do as Infinity, Southern all stars, L'Arc en Ciel, etc. I have no clue why I like it, I just do.

What about you guys?

[baggio248]

I have a ton of different music. I like everything from Country, to punk, to classical. It depends what type of mood i'm in. Currently i'm in a Texas song-writer & punk/emo mood. Texas song writer are guys liek Pat Green, Bleu Edmondson, Django Walker wtc... and the punk is Alkaline Trio, Saves The Day, Jealous Sound, The Juliana Theory, Dashboard.

[ray]

I occasionally listen to KCRW here in SoCal, which is a NPR station. They play a lot of independent artists and up-and-coming artists. Great way to get introduced to a wider variety of music.

[DaFunkyUnit]

by listening to KCRW, I found out about a great band called Royksopp. Apparently, they're Swedish. But if you like Daft Punk, then you'll like Royksopp.

Their remix of Clocks by Coldplay is awesome!:thumbup:

The French group Air is pretty good too.

Don't forget to use internet radio. The latest version of classic winamp comes with a library feature that lets you browse different internet radio stations. Pretty nifty.

[Freelance Superhero]

yeah KCRW (love that station, and you can listen to a simulcast online too) introduced me to this australian band called Jet. i'm waiting for their album to drop so i can get a better listen to it.

i'm not as knowledgeable about indie rock music in general, altho i do like a few bands off the mainstream radio radar, like Open Hand, Starflyer 59, Ozma, The Get Up Kids, and up until recently, Thrice (since they had a radio hit not too long ago).

but if we're including hip hop and such, i think Outkast is the only group i'm into that gets heavy airplay. it's not so much that i go out of my way to listen to "underground" stuff, it's just that most of mainstream hip hop is what i like to call "club rap" and i just can't stand it. anyway, most of my stuff isn't even that obscure: Black Star, Common, The Roots, Del and Hiero, Company Flow, Blackalicious, Dj Shadow and Quannum, J5, Dead Prez, Big L, and of course my beloved Esthero and Portishead.

but i like whatever sounds good to me, so of course there is some mainstream music i like too. well, maybe not any mainstream hip hop because it's all been all garbage for the past 6-8 years. ;)

[Jeffbx]

For some reason, a majority of the music I listen to never gets heavy radio play... maybe that's why I like it? St. Etienne, Massive Attack, Portishead, Faithless, Stereolab - all excellent bands with much more musical depth than the top 40 swill that plays on the radio every day.

I really don't like the idea of music that's produced to sound like what the recording industry thinks I must like (does that make sense?)


(BTW - I think Royksopp are from Norway, not Sweden)

[Cantacuzene]

Pretty much everything I listen to doesn't get radio play. I've been listening to NOFX almost completely lately, along with Aphex Twin and The Streets.

[coleslaw]

Being a metal head, nothing I listen to gets played on the radio. Sirius does have a metal station which I'd like to check out some day.

[Nija]

I, like coleslaw, don't listen to music that has much mass appeal. I like death metal, Industrial, and punk mostly, but when I venture out of my realm i'm known to listen to almost anything (O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack anyone? :P )

That Casualties, Blanks 77, Project 86, Pennywise (ok the get radioplay), Cradle of Filth, Opeth, Messugah <horribly misspelled), KMDFM, Lords of Acid, Leather Strip, Nitzer Ebb (Join In The Chant!), Static-X.

I've been trying to venture more into the realms of bands that people have heard of lately, can u tell? :P

[revil]

Originally posted by DaFunkyUnit
by listening to KCRW, I found out about a great band called Royksopp. Apparently, they're Swedish. But if you like Daft Punk, then you'll like Royksopp.
You're right, it's pretty good.