AP's 100 Bands You Need To Know

[mitchellyoung]

So, I just picked up my copy of April's AP magazine and was wondering what thoughts were, for those who read it, on the annual "100 Bands You Need to Know" list. Personally, I think there are a lot of great bands worth knowing on the list, once you get past the four or five mediocre featured bands. I actually asked one of the employees at Barnes and Noble to check their stockroom so I could buy an issue without Christofer Drew on the cover. So...thoughts?

[Cricket.]

Anyone have a link to an online version of the list? :-|

[hitormiss92]

Anyone have a link to an online version of the list? :-|

Yes please

[mitchellyoung]

Anyone have a link to an online version of the list? :-|

ha, sorry...I found this list online:

1, 2, 3
A Loss for Words
A Silent Film
Abandon Kansas
All The Day Holiday
AM Taxi
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Audra Mae
Averkiou
Baddies
Box Elders
Breathe Electric
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs
Call the Cops
Carnivores
Cheap Girls
Circle of Contempt
Close Your Eyes
Cold Cave
Comadre
Conditions
Cymbals Eat Guitars
DD/MM/YYYY
Deas Vail
Delphic
Dirty Tactics
Every Avenue
Exit_International
Fanfarlo
Flood of Red
Florence + The Machine
Free Energy
Freelance Whales
Gatekeeper
Gaza
Goonies Never Say Die
Heartsounds
Here We Go Magic
Hey Monday
Hockey
Honor Bright
How Dare You
HTRK
Hurricane Bells
Inhale/Exhale
Japandroids
Junior Battles
Kill Paradise
Kong
Kudrow
La Dispute
Let's Get It
Lights
Lions Lions
Litany for the Whale
Living With Lions
Meese
Miike Snow
Miss May I
Neon Trees
Never Shout Never
Nightmares For A Week
Parkway Drive
Places And Numbers
Prima Donna
Red City Radio
Red Knife Lottery
Rubik
Ruiner
Scene of Action
Sent By Ravens
Shining
Stereo Skyline
Stray From The Path
Terrible Things
The Big Pink
The Bigger Lights
The Cab
The Color Turning
The Disappeared
The Downtown Fiction
The Indelicates
The Joy Formidable
The Menzingers
The New Regime
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
The Ready Set
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
The Riot Before
The Summer Set
The Wonder Years
The xx
Those Who Lie Beneath
Title Fight
Two Hours Traffic
We Are The In Crowd
We Are The Union
White Denim
Worn in Red
Zlam Dunk

[kearn1tm]

AP's now hitting the Pitchfork crowd?

Also, many of those bands are far from obscure.

Why am I analyzing Alt Press?

[TerrancePryor]

I sent AP an e-mail stating that they failed to add Action Item to that list. There's only 12 bands on that list that are going to do something this year.

[mantipede]

Deas Vail
Flood of Red
Freelance Whales
Inhale/Exhale
La Dispute
The Color Turning
The Joy Formidable
Those Who Lie Beneath


I'll second all of these and I'll probably pour through the list later to see what else is tasty.

[briewer]

There are plenty of not-AP bands on that AP list.

[softcoeur]

never shout never, lol.

[TerrancePryor]

A Loss for Words
All The Day Holiday
Breathe Electric
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs
Cheap Girls
Close Your Eyes
Heartsounds
Hey Monday
Hockey
Ruiner
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
The Wonder Years
Title Fight
We Are The In Crowd
We Are The Union

[briewer]

Yeah, like 15 of those bands released albums last year.

[mitchellyoung]

Judging by last year's list, the percentage of bands that actually do get big isn't too great.

Also Andrew Jackson Jihad's been around for a while, so I thought it was funny that AltPress's just now getting around to noticing them...

[songydarko]

Mmmm Delphic is on this list, awesome.

[flask]

backed hard:

Comadre
DD/MM/YYYY
Gaza
La Dispute
Litany for the Whale
Title Fight


la dispute and litany for the whale are exceptionally bad ass.

[COREhorizon]

Pretty many bands I know are on that list, still a lot I never heard of though.

P.S. I think it's awesome that Parkway Drive is on that list.

[sargentlgfuad]

the xx! for the win! (and The Color Turning is pretty good, too.)

[HometownHero]

I spy Freelance Whales. Approve

[MADSTA]

A lot of that list is seriously laughable. Lights?

[Brokenhill]

Hey Monday is enough to discredit this list.

[MADSTA]

And I'm pretty sure they just lurked some blog's end of the year list to get bands like Freelance Whales, The xx, and Fanfarlo.

[joeyjoey]

A lot of that list is seriously laughable. Lights?
I'll admit a bunch of bands on that list are pretty meh, but Lights being on that list makes complete sense. She's had so much success over the past year (radio airplay, warped tour, solid fanbase).

[MADSTA]

I'll admit a bunch of bands on that list are pretty meh, but Lights being on that list makes complete sense. She's had so much success over the past year (radio airplay, warped tour, solid fanbase).
So why would she be on this year's list? If she's had so much success, people already know who she is.

[joeyjoey]

So why would she be on this year's list? If she's had so much success, people already know who she is.
I still walk into some people who don't know about Phoenix, yet they're a Grammy award winning band. It's just a question of getting the name to the people who haven't heard about it yet.

[drevans18]

a loss for words and the wonder years. check, and mate.

[drevans18]

I spy Freelance Whales. Approve

also, this.

[Ari Christos]

Alt Press is late to everything.

[HometownHero]

Also, La Dispute. BOOM.

[sargentlgfuad]

And I'm pretty sure they just lurked some blog's end of the year list to get bands like Freelance Whales, The xx, and Fanfarlo.
actually i've seen some year end lists by the staff (not the viewers) and they are completely different than what the majority of what their magazine covers.

[zachff]

Hockey and The Wonder Years best bands on this list

[Cricket.]

I just fell in love with Freelance Whales

[cshadows2887]

Is Lights really still unknown enough to be on that list?

[muttley]

Living With Lions is pretty much the only one I listen to. With the exception of a few Deas Vail songs.

[blebbio]

Alt-press likes Box Elders?

[love_american_style]

AltPress is aware of Comadre?

I don't like them anymore.

[anthonydarko]

If you need AltPress to tell you about bands you need to know, then you're doing something wrong.

[cshadows2887]

Right. I let ap.net tell ME the bands I should know. Right, guys? Anyone?

[FTSKayluhh]

we are the in crowd is good. and stereo skyline is, like, huge. i dont see how theyre on here.

[tyramail]

i was really surprised to see freelance whales in there, it made me very excited. it was a pretty decent list, not what i was expecting.

[tyramail]

we are the in crowd is good. and stereo skyline is, like, huge. i dont see how theyre on here.
since when is stereo skyline huge?

[cavanaughpark09]

I only pick up this magazine when there's an article I know I want to read inside or when it is this issue, because in my opinion the magazine itself is pretty awful. But yeah, most of my music comes from seeing openers at concerts, buying eps and suggestions so I like the opportunity to go through and check out some new bands (espeically with this "rocks like" part that AP includes. I've been checking out the myspaces of bands that I think I might like for a few weeks.

This year:

-The Bigger Lights
-We Are the in Crowd
-Junior Battles
-Two Hours Traffic
-The Ready Set
-Hockey
-We Are the Union
-Let's Get It
-Honor Bright
-The Wonder Years
-Meese
-The Downtown Fiction
-Terrible Things

I'm kind of meh on Stereo Skyline and Hey Monday.

And I've been a fan of the Cab and Every Avenue for quite a while, and the Summer Set has been getting a lot of play in my car recently.

[drawndead]

finally Brian Bonz is getting some recognition

[drawndead]

since when is stereo skyline huge?

they're apparently buddy buddy with boys like girls and they get on these pretty big tours even though their mediocre

[tyramail]

they're apparently buddy buddy with boys like girls and they get on these pretty big tours even though their mediocre
i suppose, but i've had to sit through them a few times and a couple tours and they didn't get that great of crowd reactions.

[Wake Up]

AP's now hitting the Pitchfork crowd?

Also, many of those bands are far from obscure.

Why am I analyzing Alt Press?

nice avatar.


/thread

[drawndead]

i suppose, but i've had to sit through them a few times and a couple tours and they didn't get that great of crowd reactions.

they're terrible. its all auto tune and stuff. they used to be a legit pop punk band with keyboard and they they kicked everyone out and got "big". now those guys are in like score24 and set in color, not my style but much better than stereo skyline

[FTSKayluhh]

since when is stereo skyline huge?
i hear random people in the hallways always singing their songs. and people constantly ask me if ive heard of them. theyre not exactly a small band.

[tyramail]

they're terrible. its all auto tune and stuff. they used to be a legit pop punk band with keyboard and they they kicked everyone out and got "big". now those guys are in like score24 and set in color, not my style but much better than stereo skyline
stereo skyline has been riding the same like, 5 songs for a long time. they are pretty boys and that is all they have to offer.

[drawndead]

stereo skyline has been riding the same like, 5 songs for a long time. they are pretty boys and that is all they have to offer.

hahha yeah heartbeat came out in like 2007? and they haven't done anything new

[tyramail]

i hear random people in the hallways always singing their songs. and people constantly ask me if ive heard of them. theyre not exactly a small band.
oh, okay. well they don't even have an album out, so they can't be that big. especially if they are in a "bands you need to know" article.

[FTSKayluhh]

oh, okay. well they don't even have an album out, so they can't be that big. especially if they are in a "bands you need to know" article.
whatever

[jessicaa__]

Also, La Dispute. BOOM.


Very much so.

[jessicaa__]

Brian Bonz and the Dot Hongs! Yes! I saw them with John Nolan and Person L. They were fantastic.

[topher465]

Deas Vail/All The Day Holiday

[tyramail]

hahha yeah heartbeat came out in like 2007? and they haven't done anything new
pretty much. and i think they've been signed by columbia for a bit, so it's kind of weird haha. but it's not like i expect a new album to be good anyway.

whatever
haha such a 14 year old response. i wasn't trying to be a douche fyi.

[drawndead]

pretty much. and i think they've been signed by columbia for a bit, so it's kind of weird haha. but it's not like i expect a new album to be good anyway.

i doubt it will be a full length. probably 2 EPs at best but bands like that never record a good full length, look at The Maine

[drawndead]

Brian Bonz and the Dot Hongs! Yes! I saw them with John Nolan and Person L. They were fantastic.

Brian Bonz is awesome. I saw him a few years ago with Manchester and I saw him at Maxwell's 2 months ago

[FTSKayluhh]

pretty much. and i think they've been signed by columbia for a bit, so it's kind of weird haha. but it's not like i expect a new album to be good anyway.


haha such a 14 year old response. i wasn't trying to be a douche fyi.
hahaa actually as i was writing that im like, i sound so 14 right now and predicted you saying that.

[tyramail]

i doubt it will be a full length. probably 2 EPs at best but bands like that never record a good full length, look at The Maine
haha, i like the maine's full length. but stereo skyline's songs are short to begin with, and don't have much variety. plus, i can't stand the singer's voice haha.

[tyramail]

hahaa actually as i was writing that im like, i sound so 14 right now and predicted you saying that.
hahah :) i was just kidding around though, so no worries hah.

[xJesusFreakx]

Hey Monday is enough to discredit this list.

qzBruRwBltE

How can you hate happiness?

[drawndead]

haha, i like the maine's full length. but stereo skyline's songs are short to begin with, and don't have much variety. plus, i can't stand the singer's voice haha.

well its all auto tune, I'm sure if they took it off it wouldn't be so terrible haha. but the only song I liked off The Maine's full length was Into Your Arms I believe

[PlanetDahmz]

AL4W
Close Your Eyes
Conditions
Heartsounds
Lions Lions
Living With Lions
Meese
Ruiner
The Summer Set
TITLE FIGHT

Recommend those artists.

[fly_guy]

A bunch of those bands have been around for awhile. Fuck Alternative Press, its useless.

[Thesleepingwell]

Needs Poema...

Still more or less unknown.

[tyramail]

well its all auto tune, I'm sure if they took it off it wouldn't be so terrible haha. but the only song I liked off The Maine's full length was Into Your Arms I believe
he has a high pitched voice already. he is cute as button though, so it will get him where he wants to be haha. i think i'm one of the few on this site that like the maine, so i understand haha.

[drawndead]

he has a high pitched voice already. he is cute as button though, so it will get him where he wants to be haha. i think i'm one of the few on this site that like the maine, so i understand haha.

it's not like they suck as a band, they're just not my style of music

[jessicaa__]

Brian Bonz is awesome. I saw him a few years ago with Manchester and I saw him at Maxwell's 2 months ago

Yeah dude, I fell in love the first time I saw him, haha.

[drawndead]

Yeah dude, I fell in love the first time I saw him, haha.

i met him last november at the big show on long island, he played acoustic he killed it

[And Hours Pass]

How the hell does Every Avenue make it on this list? That's just baffling.

What a terrible band.

[HometownHero]

qzBruRwBltE

How can you hate happiness?
That does not make me happy :shudder:

[HometownHero]

i doubt it will be a full length. probably 2 EPs at best but bands like that never record a good full length, look at The Maine
The Maine rule

[IntoTheSun]

How can you hate happiness?

If happiness came in the form of Hey Monday, I'd rather be sad...

[TROKyle]

Don't understand why Parkway Drive is in the article.

[jessicaa__]

If happiness came in the form of Hey Monday, I'd rather be sad...

This, haha.

[drawndead]

The Maine rule

i just don't think their full length was half as good as their EP

[drawndead]

If happiness came in the form of Hey Monday, I'd rather be sad...

hahahhah

[raychull]

I might actually have to check this issue out.

[phillipjacob]

know like 80 percent of the bands already on the list. of the bands i know, like about half of them.

good to see bands ive been into for awhile get some recognition though

[HoodieMonster]

Wow, Florence + The Machine? I'd say she's a pretty popular artist. Not sure she even fits on that list.

[Star Slight]

Kudrow only had a 4 song EP, is that enough to get them on the list?
I mean they're better than the majority of that list, but still

[re7ard1337]

good for andrew jackson jihad. i love those men.

[xJesusFreakx]

That does not make me happy :shudder:

If happiness came in the form of Hey Monday, I'd rather be sad...

I take it you're not Selena Gomez fans, either... :-d

[IntoTheSun]

I take it you're not Selena Gomez fans, either... :-d
Does this mean I am no longer your number 1 fan?

Edit: well that was some interesting timing considering I've been gone...

[xJesusFreakx]

Does this mean I am no longer your number 1 fan?

Edit: well that was some interesting timing considering I've been gone...

Andrea... There will never be a better #1 fan than you.

[IntoTheSun]

Andrea... There will never be a better #1 fan than you.

'Preesh-iate it, Tim.

[Zachals]

the xx is way better than every other band i've heard of on that list (which isn't really that many)

[fly_guy]

How the hell does Every Avenue make it on this list? That's just baffling.

What a terrible band.

Just because you dont like them doesnt mean other people wont....?

[Broclee]

Andrew Jackson Jihad
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Deas Vail
Florence + The Machine
Freelance Whales
La Dispute
The Wonder Years
The xx
Title Fight
Two Hours Traffic
We Are The Union

:inlove:

[HometownHero]

I take it you're not Selena Gomez fans, either... :-d

You know me so well :-)

[And Hours Pass]

Just because you dont like them doesnt mean other people wont....?
They're a terrible rehashing of a diluted version of a genre. I'm not saying other people won't like them, but I can say that they're absolutely not a band that anybody needs to know.

[jaredisrad_9]

Of course Parkway Drive should be on that list. They should be all over it! They're incredible. Starting from nothing in Australia to touring the world, it's nuts! :D

[Gregv]

honor bright

[BozzBlonde]

Haha. Nice list.

[cshadows2887]

he has a high pitched voice already. he is cute as button though, so it will get him where he wants to be haha. i think i'm one of the few on this site that like the maine, so i understand haha.

I like them too! :highfive:

If happiness came in the form of Hey Monday, I'd rather be sad...

There is no sadfaced smiley exaggerated enough to make my point.

[tyramail]

I like them too! :highfive:
haha, i should have known!

[zeropunk16]

La Dispute and Andrew Jackson Jihad, the only two I care for on that list

[Colorblind!]

This surprised me, there's some great bands on that list. All Time Lows fans everywhere are going to be wtf-ing when they check out The XX.

[WorldByStorm55]

Never Shout Never


I lost all respect for that list when I saw Never Shout Never on it =/

[mitchellyoung]

I lost all respect for that list when I saw Never Shout Never on it =/

ha...this quote makes it look like i'm advocating them.

Not a good band by any stretch, but it makes sense, if this list is of bands that we'll be hearing a lot about in 2010, supposedly.

[HeyItsChelsea]

So, I just picked up my copy of April's AP magazine and was wondering what thoughts were, for those who read it, on the annual "100 Bands You Need to Know" list. Personally, I think there are a lot of great bands worth knowing on the list, once you get past the four or five mediocre featured bands. I actually asked one of the employees at Barnes and Noble to check their stockroom so I could buy an issue without Christofer Drew on the cover. So...thoughts?

I enjoy christofer ingle being on the cover(: that's the reason I bought it. and its just a good magazine. And the cover is also the background of my phone lol(:

[HeyItsChelsea]

we are the in crowd is good. and stereo skyline is, like, huge. i dont see how theyre on here.

Stereo skyline is amazingg(: haha, they are alreasdy well known. But then again there are quite a few on the list that are.

[FTSKayluhh]

Stereo skyline is amazingg(: haha, they are alreasdy well known. But then again there are quite a few on the list that are.
am i actually older than someone on here?! WOO! nice to meet you !

[Broclee]

I lost all respect for that list when I saw Never Shout Never on it =/

Why? There are good artists on the list. Just because there are not-good ones on there doesn't mean the good ones are discredited.

[Broclee]

Stereo skyline is amazingg(: haha, they are alreasdy well known. But then again there are quite a few on the list that are.
s0GsTp7KFmU

[HeyItsChelsea]

am i actually older than someone on here?! WOO! nice to meet you !

Lol! how old are you? And nice to meet you too haha(:

[Star Slight]

s0GsTp7KFmU

OMG THEY SANG THE SONG "CALL YOU ON THE PHONE"!!

[WorldByStorm55]

Why? There are good artists on the list. Just because there are not-good ones on there doesn't mean the good ones are discredited.
I was just kidding. Yeah there are.

[waitaminute]

who needs this fucking list anyway.

[IWasaCamera]

How else are people going to be exposed to the sweet totally obscure sounds of Cymbals Eat Guitars? I mean, really.

[cshadows2887]

How else are people going to be exposed to the sweet totally obscure sounds of Cymbals Eat Guitars? I mean, really.

Your taste in tunes is too good to be so bitter, sir.

[IWasaCamera]

Japandroids, what a clever moniker. I think I'll blog about them before the world takes notice.

[Two Headed Girl]

Needs more The Motorcycle Industry.

[cysprings2010]

went to the ATTACK OF THE 100 BANDS SHOW in Austin. thats where I got my free copy of that mag. The list was interesting. The show promoting it, not so much.

[TheMisanthrope]

lets get it! and miss may i are good

[KorzyyKadence.]

Parkway Drive.

Stoked.

(:

[Mosh]

ha, sorry...I found this list online:

1, 2, 3
A Loss for Words
A Silent Film
Abandon Kansas
All The Day Holiday
AM Taxi
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Audra Mae
Averkiou
Baddies
Box Elders
Breathe Electric
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs
Call the Cops
Carnivores
Cheap Girls
Circle of Contempt
Close Your Eyes
Cold Cave
Comadre
Conditions
Cymbals Eat Guitars
DD/MM/YYYY
Deas Vail
Delphic
Dirty Tactics
Every Avenue
Exit_International
Fanfarlo
Flood of Red
Florence + The Machine
Free Energy
Freelance Whales
Gatekeeper
Gaza
Goonies Never Say Die
Heartsounds
Here We Go Magic
Hey Monday
Hockey
Honor Bright
How Dare You
HTRK
Hurricane Bells
Inhale/Exhale
Japandroids
Junior Battles
Kill Paradise
Kong
Kudrow
La Dispute
Let's Get It
Lights
Lions Lions
Litany for the Whale
Living With Lions
Meese
Miike Snow
Miss May I
Neon Trees
Never Shout Never
Nightmares For A Week
Parkway Drive
Places And Numbers
Prima Donna
Red City Radio
Red Knife Lottery
Rubik
Ruiner
Scene of Action
Sent By Ravens
Shining
Stereo Skyline
Stray From The Path
Terrible Things
The Big Pink
The Bigger Lights
The Cab
The Color Turning
The Disappeared
The Downtown Fiction
The Indelicates
The Joy Formidable
The Menzingers
The New Regime
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
The Ready Set
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
The Riot Before
The Summer Set
The Wonder Years
The xx
Those Who Lie Beneath
Title Fight
Two Hours Traffic
We Are The In Crowd
We Are The Union
White Denim
Worn in Red
Zlam Dunk
The Wonder Years are in AP? do like.

[Belle17]

Every avenue's being overplayed on Sirius xm.
Everyone's asking how stereo skyline's on this list; I'm asking how Neon trees made it...

[incognitojones]

Close Your Eyes
Conditions
Deas Vail
Flood of Red
Junior Battles
La Dispute
Red Knife Lottery
Stray From The Path
The Wonder Years
Zlam Dunk

Back these. List of some solid bands, some shit bands, not surprising.

[projectmayhem16]

Are there any bands on this list who are not 5th tier pop-punk or Cookie Monster metal-core? Besides The xx, of course.