Does anyone know of any pretty unheard of bands that are actually really good?

Give a few of these a try (If you have KaZaA I have put their best songs next to their names!):

Silverchair (Pins in my Needles, Freak, Anthem for the year 2000)
Biffy Clyro (57, Christopher's River)
Finch (Letters To You)




Others?

would also be helpful if there was a little indication on what sort of music it would be

They're pretty much what i would just call Rock bands....theyre kinda soft songs I guess, but its defianelty not the sort of stuff that you hear on TOTP, and Ive only ever seen 2 Silverchair songs on MTV|2-I only heard of the other 2 becaus ethey were supporing Vex Red on tour.

ok cool doing a search now

Not sure if this band is well known or not...i've seen their video hundreds of times on MTV2 but havent really heard their songs on the radio.

Crackout

Try I am the one, breakout and guillotine

Woah! Ive had that song trying to download for since Tuesday, but it just wont come down! Freaky! And no, they arent very well known, mainly beacause MTV|2 never used to put their name up, which was quite irritating! I think if you like that then oyull definately like Biffy!

ok cool i'll try that then. Yeah its hard to get crackout songs, you might have better luck looking at their website www.crackout.com i think, IIRC they have some mp3s to download.

Check out some of these (unknown due to unsignedness - but these 3 are on the way to somewhere)

Hyperplant
tHE eDGE
Duckhunt

Mark.

URL=http://ophelia.iscool.net/]Moist[/url] - Canadian indie rock

3 albums
Silver
Creature
Mercedes 5 and Dime

The latter I had to order from the US, couldn't find it here but definately worth checking out.
A criminally overlooked band and I don't even think I've seen anything on MTV2.

If anyone liked power pop group Pele in the nineties, they are back, well the lead man (ian prowse) is back with a new band, Amsterdam they are called.
www.amsterdam-music.com is the site, theres a free download in there somewhere.

Flipsiders

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