QUOTE (dportjoe @ May 30 2008, 10:57 AM)

Love the NIN attitude but sorry I just can't wrap my brain around their sound-so I won't ask to share the headphones on the bus. How about The Struts, the Booze or Candy Apple? Or aren't you willing to listen to the guys who tour in a city surplus van? Eyeliners, Girl In A Coma? Anti Flag, Season of Nightmares Horror Pops? Hard Money Saints James Hunnicutt and The Revolvers? What can I say I'm cheap and DIY union. Oh forgot a great one for both the eyes and ears The Vincent Black Shadow
The trouble is that I don't have a lot of exposure to DIY bands. I try to listen to stuff that's at least legitimate music (NIN, Pearl Jam, Interpol, Stereolab, Portishead, etc), rather than derivative label-driven crap (ahem, Nickelback). I am familiar with Anti Flag, and I dig them when I hear them, but I guess I'm not as much of a revolutionary as I used to be. Oh, I also like Bad Religion. I saw them in concert a few years back. It was a great show, but what pissed me off was that this mall punk band Less than Jake opened, and all these little skater kids started leaving the show before Bad Religion came on. I was like, "hey kids - if it wasn't for bands like Bad Religion, your little mall punk bands wouldn't even exist!"