Name ten artists YOU have never seen mentioned on ILM.

hey hey

is it good?

I haven't listened to Holy Letters in a while. Probably because it's a cd that I keep filed with my seven inch records.
I've got an edition with a bonus single and a nice picture sleeve. It is good. He's collaborated with Ben Chasny, haven't heard that.

I have a hard time finding stuff using the search feature in ILM for some reason, Rudipherous. So I'm not surprised I'm wrong about the FabPoos.

Since the thread is really about what you have never seen rather than what is there or not, that's fine. (Actually, I started this thread, but I can no longer remember what the point was, if there was any.) When searching, make sure you have it set to "posts" if you want to search posts and not just thread titles. That could be your problem.

When I was in junior high, the Fabulous Poos came to the college newspaper where he was working and he had them call me on the phone. I didn't believe it was them at first. He has a picture of himself holding up a phone, surrounded by the Fabulous Poodles. Oh man, I need to see that photo again.

That's also where he met Bob Marley, and I yelled at him for not knowing who Bob Marley was, but unfortunately I didn't get to talk to Bob Marley on the phone.

Will and the Bushmen

Friends Again

I've only been on ILM for 2 years or so (mostly just creeping on threads obv) but I'm pretty sure I've resisted name dropping The Young Sinclairs (cept maybe tangentially in a whater ye listenin to thread or something). They're some dudes making broadly labeled psych rock that's heavily (like really heavily) influenced by the 60s but they've gradually honed their sound into a 12 string led psych pop that's impossibly perfect to my ears.

I'm pretty sure they're a band that most of ILM would love (probably should've posted them in scott's west coast thread ages ago but their youtubes are mostly crappy sounding), they've got tons of melodic, (mostly) beautifully produced analog recordings but, sadly, not much 'web presence' or whatever. they remain an obscure treasure for me others that've stumbled across their vinyls. Check em out they'll make a great Christmas gift for Rickenbacker enthusiast on your list.

i've been spending more time with the weekly lists of new releases issued by two idiosyncratic record stores -- acquarius records and volcanic tounge records -- and that's led me to a bunch of artists that i don't think i've seen mentioned on ilx before.

it's nice to be reminded that there's still a lot to discover.

Sweet Sensation
Jack Jones
Edie Gorme
Blackgiris
Art (The Only Band In The World)
Jimmy Spicer
Frummox
Kay Kayser
C-Bank
Fotomaker

Jimmy Spicer

JIMMIE "SUPER RHYMES" SPICER is the forgotten genius of old school.
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― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, September 9, 2006 7:03 PM (4 years ago)

Der Blutharsch
In Gowan Ring
The Soil Bleeds Black
Paul Roland
Blood Axis
Allerseelen
Feindflug
Puissance
Von Thronstahl
Triarii

coincidence: i mentioned hisato higuchi in this thread; this morning, dusted magazine ran a favorable review of higuchi's new disc.

i downloaded it earlier this week. i've hardly digested it all (not really an album i can listen to in one sitting), but i like it a lot.

the beatles
prince
kraftwerk
steely dan
kate bush
the cure
the beach boys
saint etienne
the-dream
new order/joy division

never saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosdezX2Ut8

battlehooch.

i kind of dig the samples.

OK, ilxor's last post was pretty funny (but where's Nate Dogg?)

Black Helicopter - was just listening to the wonderful (if a little dubious) The Good Times when the thread came up again. Not seen them mentioned.

I didn't actually know until just now that they had recorded a third album.

surprisingly, timber timbre

I saw Black Helicopter open for Killing Joke recently. Solid band but didn't grab me.

haven't seen grimes mentioned. their new album -- geidi prime -- is killer.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/geidi-primes.jpg

lots of dune-references in the track-titles, e.g., feyd rautha dark heart. hypnotic and cool.

I'm sure some of these have been mentioned once or twice, so I listed 12 to hedge my bets. The difficulty is that some (like Castanets) are impossible to search for without turning up thread after thread mentioning castanets rather than Castanets.

-Jack Breakfast (can't recommend this guy enough)
-Castanets
-Ill Lit
-Parker and Lily
-Lucky Jeremy
-It's a Wise Child
-Myssouri
-Mr. Wright
-Martin Coffey Racing
-Zilch
-Josh Cole and the Household
-DiskothiQ

i got into grimes when i saw her open for asobi seksu, i think it was. i dug her infinitely more than asobi, whom i'm just kinda partial to but thought the $12 ticket price good enough to engorge myself in masses of sweaty indie chix

anyways, grimes is great live. not much action (she stands, nods, but mostly stands), but sounds so so so very much like studio.

noel gallagher's high flyin' birds

re: Grimes, the charm is about how she forgoes a mic stand for instead cradling the mic like a telephone receiver while swapping patches, turning knobs.
Co-sign on Jack Breakfast, famous Toronto book detective

can't speak to this ^^^^^^^^ but i find the dune-themed song-titles charming (shadout mapes; caladan; zoal, face dancer).

SLAM BAMBOO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0foccuYinFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7q85B1PwA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Rabbit

Nuclear Rabbit has a large fan base despite being a perpetually underground and independent band. They are arguably one of the most well known underground bands in California, having more mainstream bands like Papa Roach, Alien Ant Farm, and Deftones opening for them.

has anyone heard of these guys. i havent and neither has anyone i know from california

they appear to be... really bad

i have never heard of nuclear rabbit. i hate their name, and i youtubed them and i agree, their music seems really irritating. they sound like what primus would sound like if instead of listening to them you had a nightmare about listening to them.

i've never seen the stupid stupid henchmen mentioned here, which is a shame, because they are geniuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYXc4jl6Gs

http://www.davegrossman.net/chromatic-fantasy/2003-09-25-nuclear-rabbit/Dsc02776.jpg

'gnarly.'

They're no Nuclear Donkey

Julius Röntgen

just rediscovered this record by Finn's Motel who i know 0 about and has never been mentioned on ilm. was on a list of my favs of 2006 that i found but don't remember making.
http://open.spotify.com/album/68LTzfV4rlq0FI5GVFiw01

I've only seen Stars As Eyes mentioned in the most perfunctory fashion a handful of times. Which is a shame because I like them a lot.

Rafael Cameron:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL9Tg9eCC7E

cleveland band, mr gnome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm_N27v38_Y

Rebel Heels. My local AAA station used to play this very Eurythmics-y one, which just crossed my mind today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuKgzOy6RE

Zero results for 'Half Moon Silver'. WTF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdoTU_jtAE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfrHpjQFcw

i rediscovered this track today and was surprised when google told me the only rick bain mention on ilx was in a passing mention in a brmc thread.

Not zero mentions but I heard an ace disco-era Liquid Gold song the other day and was shocked to see that they'd barely been acknowledged on the board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_NmISTmPv0

On The Ex's label Terp: Djibril Diabete and the group Lanaya with Djibril Diabete (really good stuff from Mali)

Frank Jordan (California band from early 2000s with several records)

Here's a good one: Bachi da Pietra, who had an album on the label Die Schachtel. I think Aquarius Records raved about them. Sort of like Autistic Daughters, but Italian, bluesier, and heavier.

And maybe some other stuff on that label, such as Å.

3/4hadbeeneliminated has a few mentions here and there, but not enough for how good they are.

As a Mexican/latinamerican I can easily name 50 artists from latinamerica (with songs on spotify with over 1million plays) that have never been mentioned on ILM.

Here's one for taste:

MALUMA

Top songs on spotify

Borro Cassette 276 million plays
Felices los cuatro 216 million plays
El Perdedor 128 million plays

Pretty much any mention of him on ILM has been made by yours truly.

And we're not talking about an underground artist with >1000 plays.

Another one which I can't find any mention on ILM:

Julion Alvarez

Top songs on spotify:

El amor de su vida 57M
Pongamonos de acuerdo 45M
Afuera esta lloviendo 26M

I wont do this for every artist but you can check out numbers and mentions yourself if you care to challenge me (and I'll only go for Mexican artists):

Luis Miguel, Mijares, Emmanuel, Thalia, Caifanes, Chavela Vargas, Gran Silencio, Cristian Castro, Jose jose, Alejandro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez, Mariachi Vargas, Los Panchos, Zoe, Plastilina Mosh, Fobia, Lost Acapulco, Zurdok, Panteon Rococo, El Tri, Sr. Bikini, Santa Sabina, Austin Tv, Angeles Azules, Control Machete, Molotov, Cafe Tacuba, Kinky, Ely Guerra, Nortec Collective, Zombies in Miami, Sussie 4, Hello Seahorse, Mexican Institute of Sound, Armando Manzanero, Yuri, Aleks Syntek, Timbiriche, Tigres del Norte, Tucanes de Tijuana, Banda Machos, El Recodo, Mana, Huracanes del norte, Conjunto Primavera, Lupillo Rivera, Julio Preciado, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Antonio Aguilar, Javier Solis, Lucha Villa...

Phew should I go on?