Their shows usually start circa 10 or 10:30, and end around 12 or 12:30. They have two sets, with a 20 minute-ish intermission.

They play originals (soooo goooood) and sometimes covers. It's like the secret of College street, but those who know it love it, and if you go multiple times, you'll see the same regulars.

The closest intersection is College and Bathurst, right in front of Sushi Island. You have to go upstairs, so its really just a door leading to a club-space. Get the Guiness on tap, if you like Guiness, of-course. I do, and its the icing on the cake : P

If you want to go some night let me know. I haven't been in some time.

I will definitely take you up on that at some point in the near future. I'm always up for a night of music. I go to The Rex a lot even just to get out of my house at times.

Toledo-Cleveland has nothing but a bunch of sh*tty hardcore bands... and no one good ever comes to Cleveland.

Our town's music scene is the local pub where oldies cover bands come and do their thing.

chicago is good for getting drugs and getting corrupted, but not much else.

Doesn't Chicago have great blues and acid house scenes?

Chicago has had an amazing music scene for ages. Historically it was home home to tons of jazz and blues, in the more recent past you have things like house music and the whole Wax Trax scene of the late 80s/early 90s. When I lived there in 2001-2006 I was consistently amazed by the incredibly wide variety of music coming out of there, everything from bluegrass to indie to electronica to flamenco to metal to punk to hip-hop to circuit bending. I should also point out that in the past few years it's also been home to Lollapalooza, the Pitchfork music festival and Intonation, not to mention well-known and long running annual festivals like Bluesfest and Jazzfest. Basically, if you can't find good music in Chicago you aren't looking.

The scene where i'm from originally pretty much consists of a myriad of metalcore bands clinging onto the tails of BMTH, with perhaps one good band who draw upon mostly spazzcore influences. They all play at the Peel, which in the past has hosted the Fall of Troy and Fear Before... not bad for a local venue.

Theres a club called new slang which drags in some pretty big indie-pop, only last week i was down to see the Futureheads play there, which for Kingston is ****ing huge.

My favourite is a small pub called the Fighting ****s which has a backroom used as a venue. Bands such as Hot Cross, Trencher, Converge and With Scissors have in the past played there and the atmosphere is incredible, no more than a 200 capacity if that.

**** man, The Rex is always packed. I never find a good time to go : P

Hmmm...suburban central/east Massachusetts, a bunch of Rage cover bands and sh*tty instrumental acts. Boston has some good hardcore though?

hmm...Nashville...
Well, down on broadway there are a lot of either heartbroken sappy country ballads or bluegrassy stuff.

The only venue I go to these days is Rocketown, where a lot of local Death Metal, Acoustic, and Alternative bands go.
It's hit and miss.

woodsotck ont... Screamo... thats all

Michigan has a ton of decent metal. In my town there are a lot of screamo. As well as some really trippy avante-guarde crap.

I'm at work and my office manager is staring. I will edit this at a later time.

Troy, NY has it's own genre of music, underground called TroyCore. It sucks. And the people who love this **** remind me of neo-nazi skinheads in American X, except they're not intelligent and they don't feign it well, either. Also it consists of a lot of 300 lb white girls that are pissed off at their fathers.

well this isnterasting, cause I'm from Nicosia...Cyprus. check the map, it's a tiny island under Turkey. don't get me wrong, we have a lot of bars and "music scenes" as we call them, who have live bands a couple of days every week, but mostly the songs are in greek, cause well we speak greek here, and they are mostly crappy teenage cover bands. anw I must say I'm pretty proud of some fellow nicosian singers, especially Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης (Alkinoos Ioannidis) you can check him out on last.fm, he is a folk singer. also Cat Stevens is cypriot but he only has a few greek songs.

I know where Cyprus is! A kid in my school used to live there and I talked to him about it.

how old was he when he left? I'm interested to know how he found life here actually if u remember what he told you?

I'll have to ask him again. He speaks english well, been here 4/5 years now I believe.

well I was expecting members from the uk to know where it is, but this is cool. I've came to Boston 4 years ago, but only for a day. I was in Canada with my family, and we went on a 10 day tour of the north-east u.s. states. the one thing that stuck in my head from that tour, was how much Pennsylvania sucked! maybe the fact that they took us to see an amish town is responsible for this...

I keep meaning to check out Genghis Tron. They have played a pub I mentioned in my first post called Trillians a bunch of times in recent years. They seem to be in the UK a lot.

I've only heard this year's Board Up The House, but I can strongly reccommend it. It's one of the best of the year in my opinion.

Very good band indeed. As are An Albatross... gutted for leaving

LR's main music spot would probably be Vino's, who play about any kind of Rock, but mainly Punk and Metal. We had a Roots cover band once. Juanita's is pretty big too, I don't know them too well though. Then there's the Rev Room, I think they do it kinda like Vino's. That's about it.

Our local music mostly consists of a bunch of ****, I guess. I don't know too many, but I know a couple of rap acts.

New Paltz, NY has a pretty nice little underground music scene- some bands worth looking up:

Deep Chemistry, The Version, Frankenstein's Dog, and Los Doggies

Washington, DC has several major stadiums and tends to get major musicians, so the city does not have much of a local musican seen, it tends to be dominated by the major musicans. Katty Perry, Cristine Aguilara and Britty Spears have stopped by. Plus if the US President wants to meet a musican then the city is a definete requirement, which a president will do if he wants to make a connection with the younger voters. Several major musicans have stopped by to shake hands with the president, I believe including Britney and Michael Jackson. Some like P!nk tend to critize from affar.

I live in the downriver area from Detriot, Michigan, which is basically far enough away from Detroit to be a nice little quiet suburb but is still close enough for everybody from my school to put "Detroit" as their location down for their Xbox Live profile so everybody thinks they live in the ghetto and are all hip and ballin', but thats not the point. Heres the run-down:

25%) Progressive metal, hardcore and classic rock
25%) Ska and Punk
50%) Basically any mainstream stuff

Most people who are more musical (as in they either play an instrument, have a sibling who plays an instrument, or just love music in general, ect.) tend to listen to either the metal side of the spectrum or the ska side of the spectrum, some are both. The rest of your average joe's out there usually just listen to anything they hear on the radio, but thats not really the 'scene' because they aren't the ones forming bands and playing at venues around town. The rest aren't really active in music or anything.

Post good local bands
 

There is seemingly a sea of crappy local emo and punk bands and although I have spent much time dwelling over the bad, I HAVE found some gems (mostly through word of mouth). These guys, Miapollo, are brilliant:

miapollo [EP ONLINE NOW!!!] on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

as well as these guys, Love Turns Hate. Slightly generic, but good live.

LOVE TURNS HATE on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

I figure you guys probably know a ton of local bands who could use my myspace add or iTunes download. If you could post them, that be sweet.

Ally Heman on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Thomas Aikenhead on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Stone Birds on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

SKANKt on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Nice bunch of people and very very good live.

i saw the capital letters and thought was a metal band than i clicked on it and learned what Ska is.
:) (good post, jackhammer)

Hamelin is a great local band. I saw them open for the Gin Blossoms and actually cared more about them than GB.

Hamelin

that was worth listening to. :)
(i would've picked em over GB to)

Angel Ocana - a good friend from high school and an amazing acoustic artist

there is a local band here in toronto that's pretty good. they're called "rush"
they have several albums out. you should check 'em out :thumb:

Don't they have a big nosed vocalist who sounds like a woman by any chance?

A Name Unheard on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

These guys are amazing. All great guys and honestly one of my favorite bands.

the drummer of my band's brother plays bass for the band Adalie

ADALIE (NEW SONG UP RIGHT NOW!) on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

they're really good, they even played 3 days on the Taste of Chaos tour. plus they're real nice guys

The question is, does anyone actually click on the links?

i'm going through all the bands right now, so far i like jackhammers pick the best :D

Sounds like another opportunity for me to plug Jakob. I've seen them live 3 times.