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bubblebuddy
09/01/08, 02:24 PM
I'm looking for new bands like The Fray, We Shot the Moon, and Stop Motion Poetry
thanks
11:11
09/01/08, 02:56 PM
Something Corporate. That's all you'll ever need.
thespearkid
09/01/08, 05:23 PM
Please check out the Mile After. They're one of the best bands in NC right now. http://www.myspace.com/themileafter. They need all the support they can get. "Piano Song" should be right up your alley.
becauseyouwant2
09/01/08, 06:03 PM
Ben Folds.
11:11
09/01/08, 06:27 PM
I second The Mile After.
bubblebuddy
09/01/08, 06:56 PM
Please check out the Mile After. They're one of the best bands in NC right now. http://www.myspace.com/themileafter. They need all the support they can get. "Piano Song" should be right up your alley.

Thanks, they are actually already one of my favorites and Piano Song is my favorite song of theirs!
theDrivingSnow
09/01/08, 07:18 PM
If you like some screaming with your piano, check out Desert City Soundtrack's Contents of Distraction and Funeral Car.
#WhiteFender#
09/01/08, 07:37 PM
jack's mannequin
ambiguous.dude
09/01/08, 07:39 PM
I'm a huge piano rock fan, here are my picks.

Waking Ashland (except for the album "The Well" which was horrible.)
Everything Andrew McMahon touched. (Jack's + SoCo.)
The Rocket Summer
Keane
Ben Folds
The Afters
Augustana
IWasaCamera
09/01/08, 08:34 PM
Highway 61 Revisited...
Klatzke
09/01/08, 09:31 PM
Hush Hush Commotion
timb89
09/01/08, 10:15 PM
hahah pianos rock/pop/anything has really been hitting some strings for me lately
excuse the pun

um
anything jacks maniqen
anything ben fold five
check the ap 100 for some i found like 5 but i forgot their names
ull find em if you go through it tho

deas vail do a few piano songs
as do envy on the coast
and both signers have epic voices
ForeverDelayed
09/04/08, 07:12 PM
Ben Folds Five. That's all you'll ever need.
Fixed.
ForeverDelayed
09/04/08, 07:12 PM
Ben Folds FIVE.
Also fixed.
KMS
09/04/08, 09:30 PM
fixed.....??
SoggY ThE OnE
09/05/08, 10:32 AM
Straylight Run.

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The Affliction
09/07/08, 12:20 AM
...perhaps not.
Listen to The Reign of Kindo's new album. The first track should blow you away, if you like "piano rock."
ForeverDelayed
09/08/08, 10:40 PM
fixed.....??
Yep.

Ben Folds Five > Ben Folds solo > anything else that passes for "piano rock" nowadays
ForeverDelayed
09/08/08, 10:42 PM
Straylight Run.

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I disagree. While they're one of my favorite bands, I don't think this is really what the OP is looking for. Sure, the first album could be classified as "piano rock" but really not a whole lot since then would fit that description. The EP was all over the map, and there's barely any piano at all on TNTS. Drop the "piano" part and just say they're rock, and I'd recommend them to anyone. But if someone specifically wants piano rock, they wouldn't be in my list of recs.
Schmidty Says
09/08/08, 10:49 PM
The Hush Sound
tD77
09/08/08, 11:34 PM
Dropping Daylight
Deas Vail
JJJ
09/08/08, 11:41 PM
Ben Folds.

THIS.
screamoutmyname
09/09/08, 07:39 AM
Socratic!
h0merg0mez
09/09/08, 07:39 PM
Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Jack's Mannequin, The Hush Sound's first album
Synch Mosher
09/09/08, 09:54 PM
October Fall?
X-)
Iwudstilldie4u
09/09/08, 10:26 PM
Mae, Making April, Emery (Acoustic), The Morning Of, The Morning Light, The Cab, Cinematic Sunrise, Easton, Foxy Shazam (lol), Relient k, Socratic, 1997

It's a huge genre but a good one
ForeverDelayed
09/11/08, 10:36 PM
The Hush Sound's first album
Why does everyone like that album? I honestly think it's their weakest one. Like Vines is wayyyyy better in every way.
ForeverDelayed
09/11/08, 10:38 PM
The Cab
I think The Cab are one of the worst bands I've heard in years. I really don't find anything even remotely interesting about their music. It's like, scene pop for elevators and dentist chairs or something.
mrzippo3
09/11/08, 10:55 PM
www.myspace.com/cambridge
EmotionalJack
09/13/08, 10:26 AM
Augustana
Cinematic Sunrise
Five for Fighting
Jack's Mannequin
Keane
Mae
Making April
Melee
Relient K
Something Corporate
The Rocket Summer
Waking Ashland
We Shot the Moon...

..just to name a few..
h0merg0mez
09/13/08, 10:30 PM
Why does everyone like that album? I honestly think it's their weakest one. Like Vines is wayyyyy better in every way.

Ohh sorry. That's the one I like. I guess I haven't heard their first one...I'm just saying, not their newest one.
just_say_yes
09/14/08, 10:34 AM
Also check these (especially top 3!)

Nevertheless ( www.myspace.com/nevertheless (http://www.myspace.com/nevertheless) )
Parade The Day ( www.myspace.com/paradetheday (http://www.myspace.com/paradetheday) )
Skyline Sunrise ( www.myspace.com/skylinesunriseuk (http://www.myspace.com/skylinesunriseuk) )
My Favorite Highway
Better Luck Next Time
Paige
Goot
KMS
09/14/08, 09:21 PM
Augustana
Cinematic Sunrise
Five for Fighting
Jack's Mannequin
Keane
Mae
Making April
Melee
Relient K
Something Corporate
The Rocket Summer
Waking Ashland
We Shot the Moon...

..just to name a few..

I agree with most of these especially Five for Fighting. Also whoever sugested Reign of Kindo I just found them and they are cool. But anyway I love the fray so good luck on finding more bands like them.
triangle23
09/16/08, 06:28 PM
I'm looking for new bands like The Fray, We Shot the Moon, and Stop Motion Poetry
thanks

I'd highly recommend Jack's Mannequin if you've never listened to them before. Their first album, Everything in Transit, seems to have more piano-based rock stuff than their more recent album, The Glass Passenger (although even that has quite a few piano tracks - you just hear more guitar, so it's less soft-sounding).

Keane would definitely fit into the piano rock category as well. Their songs are similar to those of Coldplay (kind of sad, but calming at the same time).
ForeverDelayed
09/16/08, 09:33 PM
Ohh sorry. That's the one I like. I guess I haven't heard their first one...I'm just saying, not their newest one.
So Sudden was their first album, Like Vines was the follow up. I like the new one okay, but it's nowhere near as good as LV. In all honesty I'm not a fan of So Sudden at all. I think a lot of people only like it because it's the most "scene" sounding of all of their albums. I think with the next two they really started to carve out their own sound, but on the first album they were just kinda like Straylight Run Jr. or something.