What NEW band in the past 20 years has completely surprised you?

Jstas

There's been a few for me but I heard these guys on the radio tonight with their new single "Fallin' With Me" but the single that dropped probably 7 or 8 years ago now made me sit up and listen?

This is "The Struts" with their song "Could Have Been Me".

They are a Millennial glam rock band which sounds odd but honestly if Luke Spiller, the lead singer, doesn't have shades of Freddie Mercury and give you chills then you're probably dead.

But anyway, without further adieu here's the song.

https://youtu.be/ARhk9K_mviE

So whatcha got?

Expand some horizons, man.

VR3

Kaleo

treitz3

Gregory Alan Isakov

Tom

msg

The War On Drugs

tophatjohnny

Dirty Honey

Viking64

Starcrawler.

I am completely surprised that female singer hasn't dropped dead yet.

Toolfan66

The Struts, Dirty Honey, and Starcrawler are great!!

I thought I was the only one here that knew who Starcrawler was. As far as Arrow being skinny, and thinking she is on the verge of death, she is just fine. If you care to read see below..

https://www.yahoo.com/video/starcrawlers-arrow-de-wilde-on-battling-body-shaming-trolls-and-being-proudly-different-222859876.html

Her boyfriend is the son of Danny Trejo, Gilbert Trejo, he works alot on their videos, and other artwork..

Her mom is pretty well known in the music circle as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_de_Wilde

Toolfan66

Oh, and the Struts, and Starcrawler know each other very well..

mhardy6647

The Witches of Elswick (2001 to 2007, so almost within the last 20 years)

https://youtu.be/vhm9bGcefWY

Jstas

Sweet!

Keep 'em coming!

I got new music to go find.

Would be cool if y'all had some discussion around these bands instead of just throwing out a name but whatever.

Toolfan66

Dirty honey

https://youtu.be/42rmUlDiQDI

https://youtu.be/j7nhfjWM790

Toolfan66

Starcrawler

https://youtu.be/alUHhtQSjr4

https://youtu.be/N6bNF4CAa5I

https://youtu.be/URdlxFRIVe4

Watch the last one till the end..

machone

Muse

msg

The War On Drugs

Viking64 wrote: »

Starcrawler.

I am completely surprised that female singer hasn't dropped dead yet.

And why are guitar players so bendy?

daddyjt

The Milk Carton Kids - nice folksy tunes, reasonably well recorded.

https://youtu.be/WEDnGAvjQXw

Emlyn

Harry Styles

https://youtu.be/Tqm7-zN5s8k

Jstas

Another one who just dropped a new album called "Wisdom" is Stick Figure.

Dude's a one man band that has a reggae roots sound that the lead everything, Scott Woodruff, dubs over itself to create a multi-layered track. He has collaborations with other artists but "Stick Figure" is essentially Scott Woodruff and Cocoa the Tour Dog.

I remember hearing his first stuff back in like 2007 on Drexel's college radio station and it had a good vibe if not a bit "green" in production quality. The 2008 album released was still a bit amateurish. But in 2009, he dropped "Smoke Stack" and 3 singles ran to the top of the reggae charts, got regular play on the local indie radio stations. "Hawaii Song" was the highest charting single. He had a sessions album come out in like 2010 and that was meh. But 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2022 all had album releases that hit #1 on the reggae charts and the current album "Wisdom" is sitting at #51 on the Billboard 200.

Yeah, totally worth a mellow listen, sounds spectacular on a stereo that images really well (*cough* SDA *cough*) and has some bass tracks that dig stoopit deep.

The hot track from "Wisdom" right now is the song "Paradise", check it out.

https://youtu.be/qvzFphdCYHo

Then go check out the rest of his YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiiFG9kMvhSSvvWMzgXCOw

polrbehr

Moose Creek Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MVtp_L49Tk

polrbehr

OK, to give a little backstory on MCP ...

This band I posted is basically comprised of a few kids who grew up in the house next to mine. The drummer is the son of the guy who bought the house years ago, he has since moved but his kids stayed there. I recall when they started out the dad telling me he was working on getting his basement a little more sound-proof (I never complained but it was cool of him to mention), and over the years I must admit they've gotten a lot better.
Most of their time practicing was spent covering predominantly Green Day, throwing in some Rush, Soundgarden, AIC, and a few others they seemed to like - fine with me since at least I can listen to any/all of those bands!
A few years ago on Memorial Day weekend they gave a "free" concert on their back deck and had tons of
friends over, and it was awesome to see for the 20 minutes or so until the cops showed up, but of course some dumba$$ must have called them? Not sure why, as they weren't THAT loud and it was 2 in the afternoon.
A few weeks ago I was chatting with their uncle (I think he lives there now too?) and he came over after that and handed me a CD case, told me they got some recoding studio time and cut 4 original songs.
The video I posted is one of those songs. I do think they need some "polish" but even The Beatles were
new once and needed to practice and hone their skills. I applaud these kids for keeping with it.

Toolfan66

https://youtu.be/uwtjL9UI4uQ