I like a lot of kinds of music and I listen to a lot of bands. These are just a few of them that happened to come to mind at times when I felt like messing around with webpages. (the pictures are all links):

TThe Scaries - The Scaries play pop-punk and they live in North Carolina.  They thanked me on their first CD.  Yeah.

nChisel - Chisel, sadly, is no more. I saw them three times and every time they got better. I was introduced to their music by my friend Mike - shout-out to Mike MacDonald! - and the first time I saw them I liked them, but it wasn't until the second time I saw them that I became a serious fan. They are (were? - they're not dead, just broken up) just amazing live performers. They're just full of energy, and they look at the audience. At one show the bass player, Chris, kept knocking over his mic stand and Mike kept catching it, I think it made us all feel closer. They're from D.C., but they used to play in NYC a lot.  I also kinda met my cool friend Ian because of them, so they rock even more.

mThe B-52s - The B-52s were my first experience with non-mainstream music. Yeah, I know "Love Shack" is still being played at every bat-mitvah and high school dance, but how many of you know the words to "Detour Through Your Mind?" I first started listening to them at camp the summer before sixth grade because other people in my bunk liked them. It was a classic case of following the crowd, but they got me hooked. I don't hang out with those girls anymore, but I still listen to the B-52s.

TThe Neilds - The first time I ever heard of The Neilds was when Narissa Neilds sang on a tape with my friend Gavin. That summer I went to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival to see Ani DiFranco and when I found out the Neilds were playing I got really excited and I knew I had to see them. They definately did not dissapoint me at all! From that moment on I was a fan. They're really cool, they sort of combine a folky sound and a really rockin' sound. Unfortunately, when I saw them I was sitting really far away up on a hill and I wasn't wearing my glasses so I couldn't see very clearly, but they are terrific performers.

vCandi - I wanna be just like them when I grow up.

TThe Mr. T Experience -   The thing that separates MTX from other pop-punk bands is their lyrics.  Dr Frank is a lyric writing god!  He's influenced by people like Noel Coward, so if you pay attention to they lyrics, it's a completely different experience from listening to most punk rock.  Actually, recently they seem to be kind of moving further and further away from punk, which is making me realize that I never was particularly into punk, I was just into MTX.

The Bangles - This is for my friend Valentine, also known as Hoffsteele. He's a serious Bangles fan. So go Walk Like An Egyptian and make Val happy, okay? (I like them too, I think they kinda rock... in fact, I bet you haven't listened to them in a while - except maybe "Walk Like An Egyptian" - so you don't realize that even though they were an '80s chick band they were still pretty rockin')
 

SSmoking Popes - This band appeals to two sides of my musical being. They combine punk accompaniments with sappy lyrics about love and the smooth vocals of a true crooner. They're perfect when you're in the mood to dress up in all your scenester clothes and sway in the mirror like a lovesick teenybopper straight out of the 1950s. They also do a kickass cover of "Pure Imagination" from the movie Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory on their CD Destination Failure.

sSuper Electric Rock - This was the band that I fronted back in 1985.

fFaith No More - I was really into this band around the time that I was in sixth grade. I think they might have changed a little since then. I had a lot of trouble finding a picture that satisfied the image of what I believe that they should still and should always look like (once a long hair band, always a long hair band, that's what I say). I have tons of such pictures glued to my closet door at home, but that's where they are, on my closet door at home. They proudly hang next to The Spin Doctors, The Black Crows, and countless others who I papered my door with back in the day.

SSorry About Dresden - How do I start talking about SAD? Hmmm... Well, the reason they chose the name Sorry About Dresden was because they figured that no other band would have already chosen it. People say they sound a little like what The Archers of Loaf used to sound like (I wouldn't know because I'm not all that familiar with The Archers), and they keep getting refered to as "the next big thing." They have a 7" out on clear red vinyl, which apparently has gotten very popular at Harvard. They also have a song on a compilation called Pet Sounds Vol. 1 with a bunch of big famous idie people on it.  Occasionally their track from that comp, "My Universe," can be heard on the indie channel of Spinner.com.

tThe Chippunx - I met The Chippunx a couple years ago. They played a show with The Scaries and Amish Jihad in Danville, VA. I was part of the mob of people who came with the bands. So anyway, the Chippunx: they were very cool and very obnoxious and they had a ton of energy and the lead singer, Joseph, jumped around with no shoes on and broke a microphone (he also was riding around on a skateboard before the show and managed to catch his wheels on some fake hair in the street and fell off). I was very flattered when I met them because the first thing that Michael, the drummer (who I'd met once before), said when I introduced myself to everyone was, "This is the cool girl who put us on her webpage." They've since broken up though.  I think some of the members started a new band, but I don't really know anything about it.

SSeventh Floor (or something) - Even though it's spelled 7th Foor in the picture, it was 7th Floor, with an L, I was just too dumb too notice the typo and too lazy to redo it.  Seventh Floor was my "band" freshman year, it was with some of my floormates from the 7th floor, which I live on again this year, but Tim and Taylor don't, so no reunion tours are being planned or anything.

bThe Figgs - I saw these guys during the winter of my freshman year and they were so amazing! They just rocked so so so much and they had so much energy on stage. They kicked ass! I also have 2 of their CDs, both of which I bought used and I can't figure out why the original owners sold them because they're really good. They're also originally from Saratoga Springs, where I go to school so they're sort of local heros.

mTimotheous Groove - "Everybody's going to the party today / They are going in different ways" nI really shouldn't have to say much after that quote, but I'll say a little. T-Groove is the project of a tall fella named Tim who hails from Chapel Hill, N.C. I shared a chair with him once at a Scaries/SAD show at the Duke Coffee house.  He makes fun music.

Johnny Tweezer and The Dancing Eyebrows - This link doesn't work, so don't try it.  JT&TheDE's was my little band thingy last year with my friend Ian.  We had one song, "Stupid Crush On Stubble Boy," which is featured on my new tape.  He graduated last year and moved back to Baltimore, so Johnny Tweezer now only exists on t-shirts, buttons, stickers, and my new tape.

-Sputnik - Once upon a time there was this entry in my guestbook from some guy named Alec. It turned out, this guy named Alec was in this band called Sputnik. He'd gotten to my page from one of the links to it that accidently ended up on the page for a band called Six Finger Satellite (long story, involves the Chippunx) and he noticed that I had a radio show. He asked me if he could send me a free CD. So I said "no! I hate free CDs! never visit my homepage again!" Just kidding! I said that I would be thrilled to get a free CD! Anyway, Sputnik plays spacerock and they say they are from the future. Go visit their page cause they were so nice and sent me a free CD even though I didn't get a radio show last semster.

More to come at some point if I feel like it.

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