Who are some good, lesser known rock bands?

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Spoon

Game Theory

Dream Syndicates

Rain Parade

X

Suicide

The Fall

Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Sound

The Feelies

Red House Painters

Low

Airs

Wire

Swans

Stiff Little Fingers

Iceage

The La's

Girls

Ride

Catherine Wheel

Death From Above 1979

Four Tet

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Sunny Day Real Estate

Pg. 99

City of Caterpillar

La Dispute

Dismemberment Plan

Cap'n Jazz

Poison Control Center

Youth Lagoon

Faust

Can

Neu!

The Roots

F u c k Buttons

Hot Chip

The Knife

lol @ Daniel and Leo those are some of the most well known bands of their respected genre.

BQ: like 4,000+

BQ2: I've been digging a lot of Post-Hardcore lately, so i'll go with that.

Prog: King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Camel, Atomic Rooster, Van Der Graff Generator, Gentle Giant, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull

Metal: Danzig, Riot, Sodom, Annihilator

BQ1: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush

BQ2: Prog Rock

BQ3: around 2400

BQ4: K : )

BQ:

Standby http://standby-band.bandcamp.com/

Surrogate http://surrogatemusic.bandcamp.com/

Dave Matthews Band

The first two also are lesser known

BQ:

Progressive or alternative

BQ:

Around 2k

BQ: Yes :)

Lesser known bands...

Grateful dead, Alan Parsons Project, Yardbirds, Toto (probably not lesser known but hey), Victims of Circumstance, The King Blues... a few others I might be missing or don't consider lesser known.

1) Pink Floyd is the best band ever by a mile.

Iron Maiden and Dire Straits rounds out my top 3.

2) Classic Rock is the way to go. Alternative and soft rock over the others.

3) 2095

Indigenous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2CPhYpqITk

gary clark jr

Blak & Blu-11- Third Stone from The Sun/ If You Love Me Like You Say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2bZAH9D1mI

TheRealWilsonTKing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3bDATxXBl8

Hawkwind

Litmus

Farflung

BQ2: Metal

BQ3: 7007

Top 3 favorite rock bands bands, since it has to be non-mainstream, are from Chicago......

Snake Oil Salesmen (proto-punk rock)

Rabble Rabble (flower punk rock)

My Gold Mask (minimalistic/tribal/techno rock)

Favorite genre: psychedelic rock.

I have no songs on my iPad yet.

Teddy Picker by Arctic Monkeys

http://youtu.be/2A2XBoxtcUA

Is It Me by The Kooks

http://youtu.be/eKkYCr0vDTE

Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood

http://youtu.be/8IzSCiLtMfg

Under Cover of Darkness by The Strokes

http://youtu.be/tWDCYzGgOk

Teenage Icon by The Vaccines

http://youtu.be/S0idSXVOfcw

All These Things That I've Done by The Killers

http://youtu.be/sZTpLvsYYHw

Excuses by The Morning Benders 

http://youtu.be/aeE82XyNkyM

Wide Eyes by Local Natives 

http://youtu.be/DvzZC9gDbLo

Simple Song by The Shins

http://youtu.be/tvj_a5dwrf4

Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Black Veil Brides, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Snow Patrol, those are some good ones if you don't already know them. Maybe some Black Sabbath, Metallica, Lynard Skynard, Led Zepplin.