What are some good alternative/acoustic/rock artists/bands?

some of these are mainstreem but a lot are NOT AT ALL mainstreem and pretty AMAZING im not sure how extreme you want the un maintreem to go so im also naming mainstreem bands that are good =] so if you've already heard of them just keep looking because im gonna name a lot of really good bands you've prob never heard of...oh and dont just totally ignore my list if you see some bands you don't like on there because i like very different types of bands so they aren't all alike...

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Aerosmith

Aiden

Alkaline Trio

All Left Out

Amanda Lepore

Arcade Fire

Arctic Monkeys [FAVE]

Be Your Own Pet

Blink 182

Bob Dylan

Bodyrox [FAVE]

Boys Like Girls

Bright Eyes [FAVE]

Cazwell

The Chemical Brothers

Chris Rice

Circa Survive

Cobra Starship

Coldplay

Cream

Crystal Castles [FAVE]

The Doors

Dr. Robot

Eric Clapton

Escape the Fate

The Fall Of Troy

Fall Out Boy

Feist

The Flaming Lips

Flyleaf

Franz Ferdinand

Freezepop [FAVE]

From First To Last

Geoffrey Paris

Gorillaz

Gwen Stefani

Hannah Montana

Hellogoodbye

The Higher [FAVE]

I Am X-Ray

I Set My Friends On Fire

In This Moment

Ingrid Michaelson

Iron Maiden

Jeffree London

Jeffree Star

Lady Sovereign

Lil Mama

Lily Allen

Luciana [FAVE]

M.I.A. [FAVE]

The Medic Droid [FAVE]

Metric [FAVE]

Metro Station

Mindless Self Indulgence [FAVE]

Motion City Soundtrack [FAVE]

Muse

My Chemical Romance

My Epiphany

New Year's Day

NOFX

Outkast

Paramore [FAVE]

Peaches

Pink Floyd

The Pink Spiders

The Pipettes [FAVE]

Placebo [FAVE]

Plain White T's

Queen

Regina Spektor [FAVE]

Say Anything [FAVE]

Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Scotty Vanity

The Shins

The Sounds [FAVE]

Spice Girls

The Strokes

Sunset West

System Of A Down

Tegan and Sara [FAVE]

Tokio Hotel [FAVE]

Tom Petty [FAVE]

Twisted Sister

Uffie [FAVE]

The Used

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs [FAVE]

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A couple of bands I've heard and liked in my neck of the woods that haven't necessarily gotten alot of airplay:

Widespread Panic ( kinda along the lines of Phish and The Grateful Dead)

Rollin' in the Hay- they've been described as renegade bluegrass

Indigo Girls have some good acoustic stuff (Closer to Fine)

Adelayda is also a good rock/alt band and had a couple of popular songs a few years ago (Not Tonight is good)

Hmm, ignore the second and fourth responses, I didn't think that popified emo music and melancholy droning about how hard middle class suburban life was considered non-mainstream these days by the masses, but if you're only exposed to what corporate radio tells you to listen to, right?

For a good quick fix, find a college radio station in your area, you can always find massive amounts of good music you'd never hear of otherwise on college radio. Personally, I listen to CJSW (www.cjsw.com), broadcast from the University of Calgary, and the following is a short list of bands I discovered from listening to them.

Mountain Goats

Spoon

Poets of the Fall

The The

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire!

Black Mountain

Bloc Party

Pineapple Thief

The Album Leaf

The Good Life

The Secret Machines

Tilly and the Wall

Weakerthans

Jeff Buckley

Elliott Smith

Helmet

Hum (definitely recommend Downward is Heavenward)

Pilot Speed

Sonic Youth

The Mountain Goats

The Giraffes

Linkin Park

Matchbox 20

Sean Kingston

The Police

Guns n' Roses

The band is "Over The Rhine" from Cincinnati Ohio.

They've been around since 1990, and have released 17 Cd's. Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, the married couple at the heart of the band have recently been named to Paste magazine’s list of the "100 Best Living Songwriters"

The sound is kind of hard to pinpoint, but it expands beyond rock to encompass elements of country and jazz, with a rich sophistication to piano-led chamber ballads and jazz-inflected folk.

I really think you'd like them!

Acoustic ROCK! I would go with the D!

Tenacious D (band name)

blind guardian has a whole album on accoustic

additionally

kamelot

sonata arctica

nightwish

before the dawn

eternal tears of sorrow

flowing tears

theatre of tragedy

hammerfall

wintersun

dark lunacy

the rasmus

lovex

paradise lost

lacrimosa

bullet for my valentine