Here are some bands I, the coolest one on the boards (yeah right), recommend... mind you, not everyone will like them:

Glassjaw
Deftones
My Chemical Romance
Jimmy Eat World
The Used
Finch
Thrice
Taking Back Sunday
Straylight Run
Brand New
The Early November
Letter Kills
and ALOT more... but those are the first 11 i could think of

The "White Stripes","Strokes", the "Hives", "Weezer", "Green Day", "Franz Ferdinand" are pretty good, too.

8)

I dislike all those bands EXCEPT Green Day, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand (i only like them a little).... but along with GD and Weezer I LOOOVVEEE The Killers (which isnt spelled with a z.... haha)

Ah, Weezer. Let's hear it for geek rock all the way.

I cannot stand the Deftones for some reason.

A few more I found thanks to Andrew, "Blank Logic, MSI, The Bled, Alkaline Trio, Cursive, Art is Hard is bloody catchy. There are more and I'll list them when I think of them...

I hate about every band thrown out in this thread so far...

I do like MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE... they are really... um... something... they just... they're not fantastic artist, but they can jam. I thought them, with the exception of THE KILLERS, were the only reason to watch the VMA's this year.

I couldn't believe the great abundance of just pure shit they had on the show. From P DIDDY or whatever his fuckin' name is now giving away a 50 dollar sears and rowbucks watch to 50 no talent cent to some moronic idiot called Kayen West, who couldn't freestyle worth a piss... I mean... where is the real music? The real artist and talent?

Oh yeah, it was the KILLERS and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE who got little to no reception. Everyone would much rather watch a fool talk into a microphone than to listen to real music.

Anyways now that my rant is over...

MATTHEW GOOD BAND
FLICKERSTICK
THE KILLERS
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
FALL OUT BOY
SOCIAL DISTORTION
THE SHINS
GRANT LEE BUFFALO
U2
PULP
THIRD EYE BLIND
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW

are among my favorite bands...

Quoted from Old Time Wesley I cannot stand the Deftones for some reason.

Jerk! No, I'm sooo kidding. ;D I do see why some people hate their music, but I find their lyrics really interesting.

CLOSURE
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
DISTURBED
THURSDAY
POOR BAILEY
DOKKEN

So many more.

-ONEY

My Chemical Romance
Arctic Monkeys
Jack Johnson
Indigenous
Damien Rice
Nine Inch Nails
Stereophonics
The Dandy Warhols
Puscifer
Dashboard Confessional
Jamie Cullum
Collective Soul (you can't think of 90s music without thinking of Collective Soul)
The Killers
Third Eye Blind
Gavin DeGraw
Trapt
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbook Romance

There are so many more I know I'm forgetting..

fuel
metallica
staind
radford
dave matthews
john mayer
cranberries
third eye blind
pantera
system of a down
incubus
the juliana theory
better than ezra

and many others

I'll add more obscure bands to this list...


Breaking Benjamin
Atreyu
Remembering Never
Bleeding Through
Death
Clutch
Children of Bodom
Shadows Fall
Unearth
My Ruin
Tapping The Vein
Aiden
In Flames
Soilwork
Soulfly
Fear Factory
Silverstein

I could go on all day with good bands (Keep in mind that most of the bands I mentioned are considered death metal) I love Korn though, they have made album after album of songs I enjoy listening to.

[A]
AFI
Against Me!
Alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio
Ambulance
An Angle
Anadivine
Anti-Flag
Armor For Sleep
At The Drive-In
Atmosphere
Agent Orange
As Cities Burn
Atreyu
[B]
Bayside
Ballyhoo!
Between The Buried and Me
Blank Logic
Banner, The
Bled, The
Bleed The Dream
Blink 182
Blood Brothers, The
Bloodhound Gang, The
Bouncing Souls
Box Car Racer
Boys Night Out
Brand New
Bright Eyes
Bronx, The
[C]
Change Of Pace, A
Chariot, The
Coheed and Cambria
Comeback Kid
Converge
Copeland
Cursive
[D]
Dillenger Escape Plan, The
[E]
Early November, The
Evergreen Terrace
Every Time I Die
[F]
Fall Out Boy
Fear Before The March Of Flames
[G]
Glassjaw
Gratitude
Gym Class Heroes
[H]
Halifax
He Is Legend
Hellogoodbye
Hot Water Music
Hollywood Undead
HORSE the band
[I]
I Am The Avalanche
I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business
It Dies Today
[J]
Jack's Mannequin
JamisonParker
Johnny Cash
[L]
Letter Kills
LoveHateHero
Lucky Boys Confusion
[M]
Madball
Matchbook Romance
Matches, The
mewithoutYou
Mindless Self Indulgence
Motion City Soundtrack
Minutes To Burn
[N]
Neon Blonde
Northstar
Norma Jean
Number Twelve Looks Like You, The
[O]
Offspring, The
[P]
Panic! At The Disco
Paradox Backlash
Plain White T's
Postal Service, The
[Q]
[R]
Rage Against The Machine
Rise Against
Rocket Summer, The
Roses Are Red
[S]
Say Anything
Scarlet
Saosin
Senses Fail
Showbread
Socratic
Something Corporate
Sublime
Smashing Pumpkins
Son, Ambulance
[T]
Taking Back Sunday
Transplants
These Green Eyes
[U]
underOATH
[W]
Whole Wheat Bread
[Y]
Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Cryptopsy
Exhumed
Iron Maiden
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple
Suffocation
GWAR
Black Sabbath
Hypocrisy
Anata

These are just a few bands I listen to. I have a very bizarre taste in music ;D.

Third Day

Chris Tomlin

Hank Williams Jr.

Quoted from tomson Can't believe no one's mentioned Led Zeppelin.

And where are the Beatles, or the Stones, or the Who?  I like these, too:

The B-52s
The Police
The Fixx
Ultravox
Indigo Girls
Iggy Pop
David Bowie
Joe Jackson
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
X
Yes

Killing Joke
Marilyn Manson
KMFDM
The Cult
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
STP
Alice in Chains

Bands that I listen to that deserve more credit:

Thievery Corporation
Tosca
The GO Team
The Avalanches
King Of France
Dining Rooms
Louis XIV
Koop
Von Bondies
The Brazilian Girls
Spylab
Cake
Dirty Vegas
LCD Soundsystem
Arctic Monkeys
The Servant
Kasabian

Quoted from FilmMaker06 Third Day Chris Tomlin Hank Williams Jr.

You think we're the only Hank Williams fans Rapture? I do enjoy all 3 hanks and so did Balt but other than him I don't believe anybody else even knows of them.

It's probably because they're country and the genre is cluttered with garbage. Hank Jr is probably one of the only guys who can make a song about a pork chop that isn't dumb.

Quoted from Stephen Wegmann Bands that I listen to that deserve more credit: Thievery Corporation Tosca The GO Team The Avalanches King Of France Dining Rooms Louis XIV Koop Von Bondies The Brazilian Girls Spylab Cake Dirty Vegas LCD Soundsystem Arctic Monkeys The Servant Kasabian

Finally! Someone else thinks so!

Queensryche is a good one too and Rush for some Canadian prog-rock. I found out about this new guy Teddy Geiger if you're into the "I'm-too-good-for-a-band-acoustic -dreamboats" (like me).

Quoted from Old Time Wesley You think we're the only Hank Williams fans Rapture? I do enjoy all 3 hanks and so did Balt but other than him I don't believe anybody else even knows of them. It's probably because they're country and the genre is cluttered with garbage. Hank Jr is probably one of the only guys who can make a song about a pork chop that isn't dumb.

Hank Jr. wrote about stuff that really happened to him for the most part. I don't really like Hank Jr.'s son, though. I just like Hank Jr. and a little bit of Hank Sr.

Country music today isn't really country music. I mean, they have country RAP!!!! Gosh!

By the way, Wesley, don't you live in Canada? Me and my dad are going to Toronto to see "The Lord of the Rings" play and just to say we've been there! Ha ha.

I used to listen to country in the nineties like early Shania Twain and George Strait, mostly because my mom did. But now country music makes me cringe.

I like Johnny Cash's music. That's probably the only country music I like. But he didn't describe his music as only country.

Quoted from FilmMaker06 Hank Jr. wrote about stuff that really happened to him for the most part. I don't really like Hank Jr.'s son, though. I just like Hank Jr. and a little bit of Hank Sr. Country music today isn't really country music. I mean, they have country RAP!!!! Gosh! By the way, Wesley, don't you live in Canada? Me and my dad are going to Toronto to see "The Lord of the Rings" play and just to say we've been there! Ha ha.

Hank III or Shelton Williams is the anti country country singer who actually curses which is rare for country music.

His first 2 albums are clean and I think they're what country music should strive to be. The guy is probably top 5 on my favorite music. The other two Hank's are still in my top 10.

I live near Toronto, been there once. Plays really don't interest me, I went to Mickey Mouse on ice when i was a lot younger and I just felt ripped off and I didn't buy the tickets.

Underoath
The White Stripes
Arctic Monkeys
Bleeding Through
Atreyu
As I Lay Dying
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
John Butler Trio
System Of A Down
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
H.I.M.
Rage Against The Machine
more to come

They Might Be Giants
Tally Hall
Queen
Bowling for Soup
Weezer

Queen
Anything related to Queen
The Proclaimers
Franz Ferdinand
Sam Roberts
The Beatles
Weezer
Pulp
Blur
Oasis
Snow Patrol
Radiohead
Robbie Williams (I know, I know)
Arcade Fire
Barenaked Ladies
Travis
Coldplay
The Offspring
Muse
Collective Soul
Guns 'n Roses
Chantal Kreviazuk
Keane
Jack Johnson

and many, many more.

Quoted from Impulse Jamie Cullum

So I'm not the only one, but I am the only straight male.

System of A Down
Korn
Smashing PUmpkins (call me mainsream (haha) byt they've got some cool osngs)
Missy Higgins (she has one or two good songs)(in no way related to Misyy Elliot)
Corky and the Juice Pigs (funnies band ever)

Muse (anyone know them, they're the most talented musicians I've ever heard)
Queens of the Stone Age (C'mon, they're just awesome)
Feeder (Another brit band that are cool)
Jimmy Eat World (the kings of harmonies)
System Of A Down (love them when I'm in the mood)
Blink 182 (my heroes, the only band I've seen live and it was just before they broke up :()
Matt Costa (not really a band but he's cool)
Foo Fighters (just really good catchy rock)
U2 (who doesn't like U2? crazy people? :))
Alkaline Trio (hard punk rock, they're cool)
The Shins (heard them on Garden State, got the soundtrack too)
and Muse again 'cause they're the best. My favourite at the moment! :)

MuDvAyNe
Taproot
Sevendust
Alice In Chains
System of a Down
Systematic
Nirvana
Ozzy
Black Sabbath
Slipknot
Pink Floyd
Chimaira
Hatebreed
Killswitch Engage
Pantera (Dimebag rules!)
KoRn

theres a local band here in california that's starting to get noticed.... for those of you who like ambient rock ...stuff in the vein of Radiohead.... you guy should check these guys out.

Day One Symphony

http://www.myspace.com/dayonesymphony
http://www.dayonesymphony.com
  

A lot of upstart bands use myspace, it's a pretty good idea to put samples of their music in which we can download. That's what led me to buy a few cd's, also with Victory Records you get a second DVD disc with it that has like 3 hours of music videos by their artists.

I think this is great marketing, major labels can't give you as much publicity as the internet and myspace. They give you a national commercial but the internet speaks to your audience.