@“exodus”#p35286 see also E-Male
https://youtu.be/ERGffr70PMk
Magnificent
@“exodus”#p35286 “Your fiber optics are so, so strong” slayed me. I had a look through what else that channel had and it had a lot of Steps and S Club, who are both still well-loved by a certain demographic in my neck of the woods, but not enough to be totally commercially viable.
My contribution consists of The Youngers' Hanashitakunai
https://youtu.be/48OhRsplqOY
Funny story of how I discovered this. I went to Glasgow to see some friends just before New Year in 2006 and we stumbled into this wild record shop (Mono, if locals are curious). I saw this compilation of Japanese 60s garage music called GS I Love You - but didn't get for some reason.
Fast forward to July 2016 and I'm back in Glasgow for the same friend's wedding, and once again I stumble into Mono and see a copy of GS I Love You. It felt like more than a coincidence but when I took it to the desk I asked the cashier how often they sold it he said that he couldn't remember ever selling it. So it could well be the same copy that I'd seen 10 years before!
@“LeFish”#p35335 Mono is the restaurant, the record shop is Monorail!
A really nice jazz album that was released earlier this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRXNIOGnf8&list=PLjuQsid1S2eDonSvi1_LetZSCTLqW7942&index=6
https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/gods-trashmen-sent-to-right-the-mess
@穴 Thanks, I love this! The lo-fi recordings feel so nice and cozy…
While closing some tabs I remembered that I was looking in vain for this indie Japanese internet radio station that I was listening to sometime around 2006-2007. There was a band called MIFFY AND JUNKY they played and their track “Sayonara” I liked enough to seek out and download but have since lost. I still get it stuck in my head from time to time. I couldn't find anymore proof that they existed beyond show schedules and this tweet, unfortunately. 
I am going to put the team on my back and keep this thread alive all by myself if I have to. I will try to do so without regressing to my proto-hipster high school self. However, I will post every day, with no exceptions (except when I forget or just can‘t be hecked to type on my phone’s deadzone happy touch screen)
I would like to present The Orielles, whom no one I know knows, I think. I understand the very nature of this thread is somewhat dubious and apocryphal
The Orielles are an EXCELLENT pop/disco/funk group that are female fronted and make delightful use of phased guitars. I've listened to their album Disco Volador for hours. In addition to having a great title, this album has a very deliberate and cohesive sound to it. As someone who used to like The Ramones so much that I could recite the lyrics of many of their hits decrying disco, it's really a magnificent example of many of those sounds, without really being much of a disco album
This track was my introduction to their tunes and still likely my favorite
https://youtu.be/jh8bcvNUx3E
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@“dylanfills”#p38009 I understand the very nature of this thread is somewhat dubious and apocryphal
I've struggled with this very thing while trying to find suggestions or recommendations to place in this thread.
I think instead, the time has come to just throw caution to the proverbial wind. Maybe someone here already knows this band, and you know what -- that's cool! (..and probably means we have been at the same gig at some time in the past)
Flap! are a great fun time from here in Melbourne, Australia. I saw them many times live, at all sorts of tiny and rad venues. I suppose they are gypsy-swing-folk-jazz? Regardless of genre label, those shows were a super fun time with a tiny crowd having an absolute ball and space made for people that just wanted to dance around, space made for people that wanted to stand there and listen, space made for people that wanted to sit down, chill out, and not worry about crazy dancers trampling over them.
https://soundcloud.com/flapmusic/abracadabra
https://soundcloud.com/flapmusic/come-down-to-my-funeral-1
@“rejj”#p38015 ohmygodyes
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@“rejj”#p38015 I’ve struggled with this very thing while trying to find suggestions or recommendations to place in this thread.
I was honestly in this Facebook group thread where people were touting that such and such group had less than a thousand listens on Spotify, which is all well and good, but it just kind of cultivates this exclusivity that is counterintuitive to music discovery
You know what, I made that first post while I still thought I would fall asleep last night, so here comes another
For your consideration: Garatos Podres. I believe from Brazil (although someone with a better grasp on hearing the difference between Portuguese and Spanish would maybe be able to correct me), they're a real dirty, high-energy punk band with some ska influences/sections.
They were mentioned in a punk rock facebook group years ago; I checked them out at the time and recently remembered liking them. So I checked them out again because the name stuck with me, and, dare I say, they are better even than I remember.
https://youtu.be/Q551kX6uKw4
ALSO
I think to instate a friendly method of discerning whether or not someone in this thread has already heard of a band, reply "[color=orange]BLASTED[/color]" to any submission that you've heard before and how you discovered them if you like. I'd also enjoy hearing who has similar tastes and discoveries without devolving into a heard-it-first-off
Yep, that’s portuguese. Does “super famous in their home country but virtually unknown elsewhere” count here? Because I would obviously have a bunch of French examples to give but, as a more obvious follow-up, talking about Brazilian music immediately drives me towards Kiko Zambianchi.
https://youtu.be/AuddjXorQus
So, in lieu of apologizing for not leaving my house for the last two days and subsequently not making good on my mission to post here daily, I present Anteros:
Just an excellent pop rock band with hooks catchier than VD and outstanding vocals. They're a group that I came across before they actually had a full length out, which is always exciting for me. This track is from their ep preceding that full length
https://youtu.be/3J0zoJeUW68
https://youtu.be/_KNP_Wx_HLY
(Two links because the studio recording won't embed)
Here we have Under the Influence of Giants. It is the project of the frontman of AWOLNATION before that group existed. The eponymous Giants refer to the slew of disco and 70‘s-80’s pop that the singer, Aaron, grew up listening to, courtesy of his parents.
Their sound is heavily reliant on disco/funk rhythms, but the instruments include distorted guitars, organs, and plenty of percussion.
https://youtu.be/4OunL333kOQ
@“seasons”#p38352 I love this. I‘m a big fan of the like good vibes shoegaze/noise rock/whatever you’d call this
I wanted to share this album but couldn't decide between these two songs so I included both
https://thecradle.bandcamp.com/album/laughing-in-my-sleep-2
https://thecradle.bandcamp.com/track/whats-your-name-2
Throwing out Whales in Cubicles, which is an excellent band name as far as I‘m concerned (in spite of learning of them right when Freelance Whales, whom I don’t care for, were somewhat popular).
I first heard them on some weird Verizon FiOS music video channel that was inside included with my family's cable package. I don't know why, but it took me about 5 or 6 years to look them up again and really get into them. Only the one album, but I love it. Very like grungey/poppy/sightly progressive rock
https://youtu.be/FyMOI5tLCNw