Sorry, I meant the BlackT-shirt post that you quoted, not your own.

And I thought that for ages, none of the music I liked seemed to get mentioned anywhere. Turns out every band that gigs outside of their own bedrooms gets a mention somewhere, just look for less mainstream magazines and you'll start to notice it more. And God bless the internet.

i no bands that are pretty big in my area, but like if i mention them in here, people will be like who the feck are they?!!!

Go for it, if they're good then thats what people want

there called Akira dawn, fecking amazing band!

ive got links to some local az bands on my geocities page along with some mp3s from them, Discriminados are from El Centro California, but they are friends of mine that i went to high school with and are really good (reminds me of naked aggression) so there is a link to them as well, they are playing tomorrow (1-25)in Yuma, AZ (I will be there!!) with ISKRA which is an awesome and extremely heavy band.

sound! i love going to gigs where i live, cuz like the people you are watching are always my mates so its pretty damn wicked!

sons and daughters and the go! team are brilliant bands.

Ok here`s the point.

In my opinion with any genre you get maybe a handful of bands that are any good , the rest tend to be hundreds of soundalike bands that add nothing new.
You ask people to recommend stuff & 9 times out of 10 they`ll just give you a list of bands from the genre they listen to that are basically also-rans.I`ve met very few people who like to listen to original music regardless of genre, as I do.
I just think it`s a shame when in the age of filesharing people limit themselves to one or two genres.
Thank you for the recommendations , I`ve heard of most of them already but I`ll check out some of the others.

I'm not sure how you got that from this thread... it doesn't exactly tell you what type of music people listen to. You asked about new music, and certain genres are churning out more new bands than others. I'm sure no-one is that limiting with themselves, you like what you like.

I mean in general , not this thread