name me the most obscure band in your library...?

Trying to stay within the spirit of the question I'll stick with stuff that you can find in the iTunes store or on amazon or something like that. There are some local things that you won't be able to find anyways. Just to get some names there I'll list a couple of those:

Wartime President

7 Live Cobras

b0n0tr0n

JC and the Illegitimate Kids

Skinny Legs and All

Decorative Edison

Hitherto Bastardwing (totally good band)

Phooey (a real shame about those guys, they were totally good only had an album and an ep on vinyl)

anyways, onto the spirit of the question...

Eric Volcano

Franklin For Short

the Spires

the Elusive Parallelograms

Jeff Grimes and the Broken Strings

Polvo

the Pope

the Rattlesnakes (the ones from Corona, CA)

Sam Prekop

the Starlight Mints

Tall Tales and the Silver Lining

Tapes N Tapes

the Teeth

the Tyde

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Maybe...

Godheadsilo

Karp

the Tight Bros From Way Back When

Miracle Chosuke

Beachwood Sparks

Crispin Hellion Glover

David Ackles

Naked Raygun

Green on Red

Breaking Circus

The Wipers

The Long Ryders

Scruffy the Cat

The Dogmatics

Blood on the Saddle

Articles of Faith

Big Black

Young Fresh Fellows

The Wild Seeds

The Silos

The Leaving Trains

The Reivers

Yo La Tengo

Guadalcanal Diary

The Feelies

Mission of Burma

Volcano Suns

Fairport Convention

The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Embarassment

Scratch Acid

Squirrel Bait

The Del-Lords

The Pontiac Brothers

The Lyres

DMZ

Let's Active

The dB's

Moby Grape

That Petrol Emotion

The Celibate Rifles

Died Pretty

Salem 66

The Dream Syndicate

Van Der Graff Generator

Triumvirat

Nektar

The Fents

Passport

Breathe

Kazu(Later the Kazu Matsui Project)

Mahogany Rush

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Quicksilver Messenger Service

I'm fairly mainstream but here's a few...

The Blue Magoos

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Dino, Desi & Billy

Hedgehoppers Anonymous

The Human Beinz

The Jimmy Castor Bunch

Leapy Lee

Max Frost & The Troopers

Sailcat

Shorty Long

Sopwith Camel

The Stone Poneys

The Swingin' Medallions

The Third Rail

Wadsworth Mansion

We Five

Rompeprop

Hieronymus Bosch

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Mutyumu

Star Of Ash

Cult Of Luna

Sky Eats Airplane

Psychotic Waltz

Frantic Bleep

Explosions In The Sky

Mono

Deadsoul Tribe

Alarum

The Mars Volta

Ott

HORSE the band

Coil

Fear Before The March Of Flames

Burzum

The Arusha Accord

myGrain

Sculptured

Dance Gavin Dance

Manes

Eyes Set To Kill

A Thorn For Every Heart

Orphaned Land

OSI

Greeley Estates

Transatlantic

Melvins

Mnemic

Mors Principium Est

OOMPH!

The Old Dead Tree

Pain Of Salvation

Powerman 5000

The Prizefighter Inferno

Professor Fate

Psyclon Nine

Rolo Tomassi

Saosin

Scar Symmetry

Shpongle

Solace

Solefald

Spock's Beard

Strapping Young Lad

Subterranean Masquerade

The Sound Of Animals Fighting

Ulver

Vulture Industries

Winds

yelworC

Yezda Urfa

American Head Charge

Armor For Sleep

Cavalera Conspiracy

Chimaira

Coal Chamber

Control Denied

Crossbreed

Current 93

Death In June

Cynic

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Disarmonia Mundi

Drop Dead, Gorgeous

An Endless Sporadic

The Fall Of Troy

The Gaslight Anthem

Gojira

The Human Abstract

I Am Ghost

Insomnium

The Knife

Kyuss

L'Ame Immortelle

Lawnmower Deth

London Elektricity

Marmaduke Duke

Whew... I really want those points y'know.

How dare you copy my list Janice, do you know how long it took me to write?!

Edit: These are all on Wikipedia except about five.. and I really don't see how this is helpful... I gave him a big list of bands to expand his music... It's what he asked for...

Mount Eerie/Microphones

Ariel Pink

Adrian Orange and Her Band

Karl Blau

The Gothic Archies

Magnetic Fields

The Cystal Stills

Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears

Akron/Family

I have a lot more lol

Modest Mouse

The Bravery

Cold War Kids

Sum 41

Pendulum

Night Wish

Rammstein

Action Action

AFI

Aiden

Afroman

Alanis Morissette

Andrea McArdle

Anna Nalick

American Hi-Fi

Ansty Pants

Bloc Party

Ben Lee

Anti-Flag

The Bouncing Souls

Blooudhound Gang

The Caesars

Coheed and Cambria

Goldfinger

Fiest

Funeral For A Friend

Haddaway

I Hate Kate

Interpol

Jack Johnson

Keane

The Kooks

Kaiser Cheifs

Lostprophets

Matt Kearney

Mika

Moby

Motion City Soundtrack (a band)

Paulson

Pepper

The Shins

Silversun Pickups

Silverchair

Sister Hazel

Uncle Kracker

We the Kings

Tribal Ink

Mono

Deadsoul Tribe

Alarum

The Mars Volta

Ott

HORSE the band

Coil

Fear Before The March Of Flames

Burzum

The Arusha Accord

myGrain

Sculptured

Dance Gavin Dance

Manes

Eyes Set To Kill

A Thorn For Every Heart

Orphaned Land

Slayer

3OH!3

Acid Bath

Big Black

Husker Du

Shocking Blue

Butthole Surfers

Electric Wizard

The Vaselines

The Boomtown Rats

Rose Tattoo

Split Enz

The Cult

The Specials

Gamma

Hunble Pie

Romeo Void

Sweet

The Vapors

Tygers of Pan Tang

Witchfynde

Viloent Femmes (not real obscure but good non the less)

Doctor's of Madnesswere

*I know some people will disagree and that's fine, I think you should check them out though : )

Before "The Four Seasons" was "The Squirrels." That's from where Frankie Valli, et al got their "sound." Easy to cop music back then from a small, unorganized group.