Asklemmy

Mission of Burma

Diiv (Although they just toured with Depeche Mode so they may be more known now)

Spot

A Minor Forest

I was miffed when, in the early 90s, grunge swooped in and wrecked powerpop's resurgence. MTV had Jellyfish in every corner, and seemingly overnight Nirvana took over.

In the search for harmonies, major key power chords, and jangly, summery guitars (not to mention hummable hooks galore) I had to dig.

The Well Wishers Dressy Bessy The Lolas The Beths The Dahlmanns The Riffbackers

And I know I'm missing so many more feel-good bands...

On the hip hop side, they're growing in popularity but could be bigger: Coast Contra

One of the modern rap/hip hop groups that really holds up, and they're consistent with the quality

This was the video that got me following their stuff:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IdNxeepSpuk

Vincenzo Salvia -

For example: The pineapple pizza slayer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mc-B6w7GNMw

Work Drugs.

Cool as hell band who make smooth, summery, indie pop laced with synths and sax.

https://piped.video/watch?v=O3MW10iOHR0

I love the Delgados. They broke up a long time ago and cited being dissatisfied with not obtaining much success. The most exposure they saw was one of their songs being used for an anime opening. Alun Woodward released one pretty neat solo album as "Lord Cut Glass", and Emma Pollack made (is still making?) a few solo albums afterwards that are all pretty good, too. I think their drummer was one of the most unrecognized musicians working in popular music ever. The drums on the Delgados albums go hard.

Kaleo

• Ren (probably counts as British Rap)
• Leoniden ('Indie' Rock band from Germany)
• Jagwar Twin

They're not really considered underground since they have 1 million monthly listeners, but I still don't see a lot of people talking about the band Foreign Air. They are known for their hit "Free Animal", but they have so many good songs. I recommend "Your Touch", "Hello Sunshine Pt 2", "Wake Me Up", "Moving On," and "Monsters". Unsure of how to describe their genre, it certainly isn't rock nor bubbly pop...

Pretty much my whole genre is obscure - appalachian "old time" fiddle music.

The best way to experience this genre - sitting the middle of a jam, preferably with an instrument. Here's boys them buzzards are flying from that perspective.

Some more examples I like:

Here's Dan Gellert being funky on fretless banjo. Tune is black eyed susie.

Here's his daughter Rayna Gellert & co on red steer

Here's Jon Bekoff on rabbit in the pea patch.

Here's some cool dual fiddles on grub springs

I like Will Wood, his stuff has been described as "evil jazz", but it ranges from calm and soothing singer-songwriter type stuff to a full upbeat jazz band with chaotic composition and arrangement. I find his lyrics insightful, but they are also often quite abstract.

Cute girls doing cute things have some nice tracks, but many of them feel a bit the same-y.

The Vienna Clarinet Collection has great covers of classic clarinet songs, but classical and jazz.

I couldn't choose one, so here are a few jazz bands I like: Francis Coppieters, Loftys Comet, T-Square, Micheal Lowerstern, Archie Shepp, Sons of Kemet, and Mansur Brown

Deadbolt

i like SOJAs reggae beats and listen to them while welding

Dry The River (British, now disbanded)

Turboweekend (Danish, now disbanded)

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (Danish, re-formed)

The Beths (New Zealand)

Bonus edit: Priestess (Canada, hiatus)

• Jim's Big Ego
• Rockapella

Professor Kliq - Coming up on 10 years and these are still some of my favourite tunes.

All that matters

Community Service Album

All tunes are: CC BY-NC-SA

Avenza

Really obscure: I like Ramsay Midwood, Have Gun Will Travel, and Joshua Ray Walker too, so good and a class act as a person.

Somewhat known: I love Ondara, Durand Jones & the Indications and all their associated solo stuff, Charley Crockett, Toro y Moi, Phosphorescent, Josh Ritter, Arlo Parks.

Oh my God how could I forget, they are broken up now but J RODDY WALSTON AND THE BUSINESS! They are one of the best live acts I've seen and their records were also great.

Dedline

Brunettes Shoot Blondes (Ukrainian synth pop).

For obvious reasons they haven't been so active lately.

Hello Meteor: https://hellometeor.bandcamp.com

Exodrifter: https://exodrifter.bandcamp.com (discovered his/her work with Radio Free Fedi)

Does the Gorillaz count? I know they got Tama Impala and Bad Bunny on their Cracker Island album but I never see anyone talk about them