Any fans of unsigned music here?
 

It's nice to take a break from the radio for a little bit and explore the music outside the box!

Nope, it has to be signed or I won't even give it the time of day.

^ Haha...


But yea, Strumstar... a vast majority of MB's population aren't listening exclusively to the radio, if at all.
I've learned more about obscure bands from this website than any other place, due to the knowledge of the members here.

actually many of us listen only to "Radio" that's streamed through the internet (if we listen to it at all).

But at least you can get good internet radio stations that play good music. I think the OP was talking about actual radio or whatever.

I'm more a fan of unwritten music.

I wear clothes that don't exist yet.



I've been arrested for it several times. The government obviously wants to silence my fashion sensibilities. Proof of 2012.

Dillinger Escape Plan?

that's why i was saying we mostly listen to internet radio, stop assuming crap before you even know what my post is. you do that quite a lot (too much)

i see unsigned and signed as one and the same. usually trhe only difference would be the quality of equipment for playing and recording as well as one band being lucky enough to get noticed by a company and one not having the oppurtunity yet.

With the technology available it pretty easy to create and produce your own music as long as you have a computer powerful enough to run the software and the patience to learn it. Give it time, as interfaces become more user friendly and the instrument to computer ports become cheaper I think you'll see a rise in unsigned acts because well... they don't need to be signed. Take my friend Kirk Witt for example, dude does everything himself (he does feature guest musicians on his tracks) but for the most part he writes, records, and produces all his own stuff. From there he does offer some CD's, but for the most part it's for download. He doesn't tour or do live shows, and yet he can create a CD. He's just one example of some of the newer trends in the music industry. He doesn't need to go out and promote himself because he's got fans like me to do it for him.

and there's me, who made my own album! :-D


even if the quality sucks :o:

:laughing:
I assume you're on the rag... no?
Calm down, son, before you hurt yourself.

what internet radio stations do you guys listen to?

Are you making the joke that DEP is just a bunch of noise and that they aren't really thinking about what they're doing?

I sincerely hope not.

whats wrong with the radio?

for most of us, it's Last.FM

I haven't listened to traditional radio in ages. It just all begins to mesh together and sound the same. It's a shame some great, unheard of bands can't get radio play because of promotion or production quality.

Internet radio is pretty cool though. Last.fm is great and Pandora is pretty decent (except I get a lot of the same stuff being played over and over for some reason). There's also Grooveshark, but I haven't had a chance to check it out.

grooveshark is pretty cool. i've always wondered how their licensing works though i feel like they might run into trouble at some point. i used to use last.fm a lot just as a plug-in for itunes, never really used the radio station though. anyone use slacker or iheartradio?

I love listening to unsigned bands.
I love going to see them live, because the gigs are a lot more intimate, and they havent got any fame to their heads yet, so they talk to you like one and the same.
Some of my favourite bands are actually still unsigned.
And people who say would never listen to unsigned bands, thats just stupid.
Some of your favourite bands would have been unsigned at some point, so if they came out now you wouldnt listen to them, just because they werent' signed?

But yeah ... my point ... i like unsigned bands (:

Actually, the seeming lack of structure is why I like them.

I prefer to listen unsigned and new music why would i waste my time listening to top 40's music cause I'm not a robot..

I don't care if it's signed or not if it's "good" ... "good" being an entirely subjective qualifier based on my mood, environment, and prior experience.

If a band is "signed" or at least making plenty of cash, I feel better about copying their CD or downloading their album. If a band is still working hard to scrape by, I tend to buy the album (on a record if at all possible).

But there's a good amount of garbage in both the "signed" and "unsigned" sets. I listen to music that is "tuned in".

Ricky Duran

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

i go to or went to school with the boys from final outcome, they are a very good band, they have split now which is a shame as they are extremely talented! i dont usually listen to that scene but barry the drummer got me into listening to his band n i actually enjoyed it, i was shocked :D

Kind of like how I enjoy unspoken word poetry

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Anyhow, we love our unsigned music. Head over to the Hardcore & Emo forum for proof.

how do u discover unsinged bands there like a website or websites decatied to Unsinged bands ... or is it all just word of mouth and myspace ????

Blogs dedicated to music are a great way to find unsigned bands, but even browsing Myspace will probably turn up results.

pray.

u know i never got into blogs because there bassicaly like fourms its just people talking about a subject

and Myspace might be cool i never looked for music there i was turned off by the Sea of emo and bad metal/rock bands that swarmed that site

Myspace is pretty word, about two years ago an unsigned band called Cymbals Eat Guitars randomly friended me, and they were pretty good.

these days many bands of all different genres have a myspace. if anything it's one of the first things a band does before they even play a show.

that's why they invented the 'Filtered Search'

You would love John Cage's 4'33!

actually if amplify it by about 1000% you can hear a drum beating about every 40 seconds (along with a lot of noise)

I actually quite enjoy the message of that piece. Anybody can expiriment with it, you just turn off the music and listen. The sounds around you really start to come alive.

there's some good bands in the underground scene in here

those are my 2 favorites if anyone's interested [I don't think anyone heard of them, tho they got some good reviews from the eastern Europe metal magazines]

this one called VOID
My Playlist by Void on MySpace Music - listen to songs & purchase MP3s

and the other is Kimeara ... a bit more popular

YouTube - kimaera-among the dead

YouTube - Kimaera - God´s Wrath (Death-Doom)

YouTube - kimaera-in a dying embrace