I live in San Diego, and there's always been a very small, but typically decent music scene. Anything John Reis is in is guaranteed to be good. And everyone's crazy about the Muslims right now.

A few local favorites.

Murder By Death

Gentleman Caller

Sam Lowry

The Impossible Shapes

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
i started a new thread on this topic by accident (i searched "local music" and didn't get any hits so i figured that no one had posted about it yet).

Um.. but it says you posted in the thread like 20 minutes before then. Whoah, worm hole!

Anyways, just moved to Lawrence, KS. I don't know if it has a local music scene anymore, but locals The Appleseed Cast is one of my favorite bands. Ad astra per aspera might appeal to some people here and Minus Story are on the Jagjaguwar label. The concert scene is relatively good for the standard fare indie circuit, as I've been to most of the venues here when I lived in Kansas City. Still not as good as Omaha.

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Originally posted by La La Love Pixies:

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
i started a new thread on this topic by accident (i searched "local music" and didn't get any hits so i figured that no one had posted about it yet).

Um.. but it says you posted in the thread like 20 minutes before then. Whoah, worm hole!

i don't understand what you are trying to say? "20 minutes before then" - what/when is then? i created a new thread for local music, after failing to to find any threads for it through the search option, i then posted in it again, and a forum moderator then posted in the thread redirecting me back to this discussion (he also froze the new topic i started). i have subsequently started posting in this thread. how is this confusing?

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Originally posted by cuneyt81:
I live in San Diego, and there's always been a very small, but typically decent music scene. Anything John Reis is in is guaranteed to be good. And everyone's crazy about the Muslims right now.

reis is awesome - i love drive like jehu and hot snakes.

i don't get the muslims hype personally.

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Originally posted by crazed:
A few local favorites.

Murder By Death

Gentleman Caller

Sam Lowry

The Impossible Shapes

I didn't know you lived in Bloomington, crazed. Nice town. I think I've seen Murder By Death their three or four times.

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
i started a new thread on this topic by accident (i searched "local music" and didn't get any hits so i figured that no one had posted about it yet).

Um.. but it says you posted in the thread like 20 minutes before then. Whoah, worm hole!

i don't understand what you are trying to say? "20 minutes before then" - what/when is then? i created a new thread for local music, after failing to to find any threads for it through the search option, i then posted in it again, and a forum moderator then posted in the thread redirecting me back to this discussion (he also froze the new topic i started). i have subsequently started posting in this thread. how is this confusing?

FREAK OUT

My town hardly has a decent music store. I have to order offline. and we are lucky to get one good concert every three years.

Okay... so I should be fair and say that there is a nice bit of Alaskan music that floats around, but it's all very... bumpkin... to my ears at least. I can hardly take most of it seriously. It's really it's own genre or, even in different genres, it's own flavor of music. I enjoy it when it's around, but it's like enjoying a Reneisance Fair. You really wouldn't want to take any of it home with you.

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Originally posted by La La Love Pixies:

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
i started a new thread on this topic by accident (i searched "local music" and didn't get any hits so i figured that no one had posted about it yet).

Um.. but it says you posted in the thread like 20 minutes before then. Whoah, worm hole!

i don't understand what you are trying to say? "20 minutes before then" - what/when is then? i created a new thread for local music, after failing to to find any threads for it through the search option, i then posted in it again, and a forum moderator then posted in the thread redirecting me back to this discussion (he also froze the new topic i started). i have subsequently started posting in this thread. how is this confusing?

FREAK OUT

i wasn't freaking out, i'm just confused. you seemed upset and/or perturbed by something i had said, but i could not for the life of me figure out what had upset your delicate sensiblities, so i asked for you to explain yourself better. speaking of which, you still haven't explained what you meant.

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I enjoy it when it's around, but it's like enjoying a Reneisance Fair. You really wouldn't want to take any of it home with you.

I beg to differ. Or at least I would've when I was 12. I think I still have a wooden sword lying around somewhere.

Krug, it's not worth explaining because I don't remember why I wrote that nor do I want to take the time to figure it out again.

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Originally posted by Shadrach:
I enjoy it when it's around, but it's like enjoying a Reneisance Fair. You really wouldn't want to take any of it home with you.

I beg to differ. Or at least I would've when I was 12. I think I still have a wooden sword lying around somewhere.

Man, I wish there was a "wooden swords" subforum where we could carry on an indepth conversation, because boy do I have stories to tell. We grew up running through the forest ambushing one another with swords. We were brutal with them too. Very physical, and aggresive in our fights. As young boys we would climb into bed at night dreaming about what section of the forest we had claimed as our kingdom that day, and what new sword we had carved our individual ruin into to be named as our own, and nursing our bruised knuckles and arms.

In my memory of my childhood, I grew up as a warrior king.

Iowa City is pretty much like Lawrence in that it is a Midwestern college town that gets more concerts than many of the (larger) cities around it. Quite a few groups stop by in between Omaha or Minneapolis and Chicago, we've had Iron & Wine, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Wilco, Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, Okkervil River...etc. Plus we have two record stores.

However, we don't have a ton of local bands. I like this local folk artist named Caleb Engstrom. Otherwise, it's pretty much just kids in high school playing rock music.

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
reis is awesome - i love drive like jehu and hot snakes.

i don't get the muslims hype personally.

Jehu, Hot Snakes and Rocket are all personal favorites.

I'm not all that into the Muslims either, but they're not bad.

Plus there's all the Rob Crow projects. And No Knife is suggesting they're getting back together this year. That'd be awesome.

here is a mix tape of some good san diegan music

there are some obvious omissions, but muxtape only allows 12 songs max

http://mattking08.muxtape.com/

Does Toronto have a music scene?
Broken Social Scene
Leslie Feist
Metric
The Hidden Cameras
Holy Fuck
Final Fantasy
Crystal Castles
K-OS
Kardinal Offishall
treble charger (who used to be good)
The Horseshoe Tavern (legendary Stones performances, amongst other things)
The El Mocambo
The Silver Dollar Room (as seen in "Adventures In Babysitting")
The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra
Ron Sexsmith
Rush
The Brown Hornets
Hostage Life
The Flatliners
Protest The Hero (Whitby, but close enough)
The Beaches International Jazz Fest
ill Scarlett
The Junction
Run With The Kittens
Tokyo Police Club
Barenaked Ladies
Cowboy Junkies
Death From Above 1979

Hmph. I think I've made the point. T.O. rules.

Yeah I'm going to have to echo the comment made by the Wichitan above.

Wichita is one of those cities where people driven by a desire to make money and settle down (a desire they don't know they possess), settle down. It's completely non-threatening and populated by people like them. It's an awful town. And the music scene is still dominated by nu-metal and new grunge acts. There's always good bluegrass, I must say. But overall---ick. A band with even the slightest avant garde tendecies would be mauled alive here. It simply is not a breeding ground for, um, you know, creative things. The art kids on campus here paint flowers and shit. So doncha know that any pamphlet that brags of its art scene, knows nothing of art (rule number 121).

Shoulda went to Lawrence for college...*le sigh*

No. Not at all. Mine just flat out DOES NOT.

I think I'm the first poster outside the U.S. and I hail from Dunedin NZ. We're tucked away at the bottom of New Zealand's South Island but it's a university town so there's a fairly decent music scene. A lot of local bands have an indie-pop bent but there is a lot of variety on offer. We've got a few 80's influenced techno acts going on and we also get some decent international acts (courtesy of the university of course). Yo La Tengo and The Cat Empire are two worthy of note.

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