Most Favorite Band that is not well known

[Andy]

I just started playing some of my favorite music and realised how few people around the world may never hear it.

So how about a thread to post about great bands/music that are not mainstream?

At the moment I am listening to Lita Ford Best tracks: Lisa - about lesbian love and The Ripper no idea what this is about but it's great rock music.

[Hope]

Not well known? Well there is mark broussard. He is New Orleans style jazz/country mix. Great sound. My all time not so well known is Chris Ledoux. I guess you can't really say he is "unknown" because he was one of the best cowboy singers around. Lots of western country music. A great musician.

[12noon]

If you look in the blogs on myspace, you will find loads of unknown bands and singers. Its a shame some of the songs they play never make it though.

[Hope]

There is a lot of talent out there, but if they do not have the look our sound that is "now" they never make it. It is not fair at all.

[Andy]

I guess there are 100's of great unheard of bands out there. I guess they need to learn how to use the power of the web to let people find them.

[jamescooper]

In all honesty, Myspace is a mine of good talent. Most indie bands find their name and fame in Myspace. Currently, I'm trying to help a friend right now as his group is starting to formally launch their band. I'm trying to create a song code generator for them so Myspace users can attach their songs to their profiles.

[Andy]

Yeah I heard that MySpace marketing is a hot topic and wondered how it's possible to make money from this medium. Of course, advertising bands is a good idea since the youngsters buy the songs. For established artists I like most others search on sites like YouTube I guess?

Back to the main topic...

I keep hearing JPop music that I really like but my friends like Jazz which I don't like at all so they can't help me with identifying the artist. The particular song I like was being played from the small speakers on a ski-resort chair lift in Japan so it's not the ideal place to ask people about the music being played. The lyric had "call my name" in it in English which I traced to a band called Garnet Crow on the internet but some clips of them on YouTube didn't sound like this song at all. It's a ballad-like song by a female singer. I also found some suggestions of the best Jpop singers and played some tunes by them on youtube which were ok but not what I was looking for 

Actually, the phrase may have been "say my name" but that just brings up Destiny's Child on internet searches.