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Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Kenny » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:04 pm

There's a place around where I live that hosts stand-up comedians and live musical performances. The music performances specifically have ALWAYS been nothing short of amazing. It's phenomenal how much heart and soul these guys put into their material.

One band I caught some time ago was called Mary-Ashley, a little three piece set from Pasadena. The lead, Mary Ashley, is a very cool person and she's a great singer. I bought their Christmas album and they're gonna be coming up with an EP soon.

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They had some original material as well but the covers were the showstoppers. Anyone know any local bands you feel need more exposure?
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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Thief » Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:26 pm

Quasi!

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Kenny » Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:20 pm

^That last song was great.
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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby mue 26 » Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:59 pm

Kool Keith

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Rakim » Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:22 pm

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Thief » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:14 am

Television

This one is a stretch as far as underground/underappreciated goes but I'm going to post it anyway[][][][[[]]] because I want to.

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Kenny » Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:28 am

This is some good shit, Thief.

Keep posting it.

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby DockeN » Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:24 am

Underground - Dada

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Underappreciated - Scar Symmetry

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Gotta say I like almost all of the songs in this topic so far!

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby mue 26 » Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:09 pm

I think Dobie is pretty under appreciated, the guy was a bit of a pioneer.

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Absentia » Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:54 pm

I've always found Scar Symmetry to be fairly regular, nothing extraordinary. Anyhow, I preffer this particular song, a bit too poppy but I like it anyway

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And also Anciients are pretty underground, great riff

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Thief » Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:35 am

I think that one the most tragically under appreciated artists that I can think of would have to be Chris Bell of Big Star fame. He was only in Big Star for the first record (number one record) and eventually released a solo album called "I Am The Cosmos" before dying at 27.

I Am The Cosmos is one of the best albums I own and it's really hard for me to pick just two songs from it -- I'll just pick the most popular.

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Please listen to his music because it's great.
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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby Thief » Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:17 pm

Well he's my favorite musician and (in my opinion) the best song writer of the 90s/early 2000s: Elliott Smith

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Unreleased instrumental I really like:
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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby OL » Wed Apr 16, 2014 2:22 am

I can't imagine country music is particularly popular on these boards. I'm not even usually into it myself; so much of it is just ugly pop trash nowadays, and a good deal of the rest of it is stereotypical and embarrassing, singing about pickup trucks and shit like that. Good god, I hate that tripe.
But underneath all the bullshit "Nashville" trash is the occasional genuine bit of talent and appeal.

I started listening to Carrie Rodriguez a little over a decade ago, when she was collaborating with a guy named Chip Taylor (really fantastic songwriter, that one; maybe fuel for another post later). She's still one of the only country/americana acts I take seriously. Excellent violinist, a very genuine songwriter, and her voice just has this great, authentically-Texan weight to it. I'm a nut for just about anything she does.


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It's kind of a "bucket list" thing for me to eventually go to one of her shows someday. She's from Austin, so I imagine it'll be easy enough to catch one once I get back to Texas.

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Re: Underground or Underappreciated Artists

Postby mue 26 » Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:40 am

I would like to put my man Shuggie Otis into this thread. Pure genius. Inspiration Information is one of the best albums you've probably never heard.

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