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Crazy 8's (not THE Crazy 8's, mind you......they just stole the name)

You might be able to listen to some clips online...their CD's can be purchased from Amazon and a few other places. Look for album titles of Law & Order (their best by far) or Nervous In Suburbia.

They were an eight piece band fronted by Todd Duncan (vocals/alto sax) with trumpet by Tim Tubb and trombone by Danny Scoffler...they had a ska sound but were very influenced by Oingo Boingo.

I have introduced this band to many, many people over the years and have yet to meet someone who did not like them.

Why is 90% of the bands mentioned have sold a gold record, or nearly. Whatever, my list:

Dysrhythmia

Psyopus

Gorguts

Behold... The Arctopus

Other Men

Hella

Tera Melos

RX Bandits

Ahleuchatistas

Cinemechanica

Lightning Bolt

Don Caballero

Giraffes? Giraffes!

Piglet

Faraquet

OXES

Sleeping People

Rumah Sakit

Upsilon Acrux

Them, Roaring Twenties

Ruins

Technology

Planets

Yowie

Magma

Marnie Stern

The Ladies

Mick Barr & Zach Hill

Orthrelm

Cheval de Frise

By the End of Tonight

The Flying Luttenbachers

Medications

Arab on Radar

Mercury Program (only the A Data Learn the Language album)

Ghengis Tron

Storm & Stress

xthouhtstreamsx

Zombi

That's about as many as I can think of right now.

When you say any kind of rock, that's a pretty broad spectrum of music to work through. I'll list some bands that I enjoy that haven't received mainstream attention.

Ours -Their last album was produced by Rick Rubin and a good place to start, but all three albums are great.

The Trews -They are a canadian band that just play straight up rock and roll. They too have three albums but I would start with Den Of Thieves.

Danko Jones - Another canadian band...Start with Born A Lion

Burst -The Lazaraus Bird -This is a bit on the harder end of the rock spectrum, but amazing music.

Good luck!

The Runaways

Concrete Blonde

The Vacancies

The Distillers

The Ramones

Underground bands rather than unknown bands:

Exit Ten

Fell Silent

Devil Sold His Soul

Fei Comodo

A Heartwell Ending

Stars Down

http://www.starsdowninc.com/

Well... I listen to a lot of different types of "Rock." So here goes! :) Just go to the genre of rock that YOU like.

ROCK/POP ROCK:

The Academy Is

The forecast

The higher

The maine

All time Low

Hit the Lights

Kill Hannah

Mayday Parade

This calendar year

Backseat Goodbye

HARDCORE/METAL ROCK:

Bring me the horizon

Memphis May Fire

A skylit Drive

Akissforjersey

Dance gavin dance

Chiodos

Circa Survive

Hidden in plain view

INDIE/ALTERNATIVE ROCK:

Modest mouse

The kooks

The macabees

Death cab for cutie

Bright eyes

Rogue Wave

extremely some bands i'm into look to allure to bathe stares from my pals. some favorites are: Yellow Swans Chrome Hoof Jane Bardo Pond Nadja Robedoor Lightning Bolt Holy F*ck OOIOO The Kills This warmth Gang Gang Dance

Moving Units

Easy Image

The Vines

I have no idea whether these are "unknown" but they're never on tv or anything like that here so..

Semi Precious Weapons [rock n roll / glam rock]

Abingdon Boys School [jrock but reallyy good]

Ludo

Does It Offend You, Yeah? [electro rock]

Family Force 5 [amazing]

Foxboro Hot Tubs

The Horrors [indie ish but amazing]

Porcelain And The Tramps [industrial ish]

Towers Of London [punk pop; not pop punk]

We Are The Fury [rock n roll / glam rock]

The Whip [electro rock]

Die Mannequin

Erm thats all I can think of without raiding my entire itunes library, which would take days.. so I hope its worth something. (: