My mom has a country band in Arizona, "Two Steps West" that is her picture on the website, no MILF jokes please, Her name is Mari Thompson, and if you are in Arizona and like Country music, you should check out her act, tell her, her son sent you, that should freak her out...
http://members.tripod.com/~twostepswest/
My Friend in Ohio, BigFresh, AKA Joel Smith has a band that I will let the website describe:
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Defying stereotypes and breaking records for time spent simultaneously rocking AND consuming burritos, lavacola has made a name for themselves not only within the communities they entertain with their music, but also liquor stores and restaurants. Eschewing the labels usually awarded unsigned (and unsightly) rock bands, lavacola has managed to win fans and enemies from all walks of life. Ask your children, your bizarre friends, your Bookie, your Senator - chances are he/she has had a run-in with lavacola. This disturbingly talented three-piece formed in the protoplasmic goo of drummer Mr. DD's basement. A feral combination with former members of failed ska band "Walter Ego" (BigFResh and Mr. DD) and newcomer ButtLord - a bass-playing prodigy raised by Gypsies. The cold winter of 2001 witnessed the advent of lavacola to the womb of Middletown, Ohio. Lavacola played its first show just weeks after its birth. History began after this. Uniting punk, blues, country, funk and the syrupy-sweet tang of pop - lavacola never disappoints. Why do these hard-rocking, hard-living, womanizing miscreants cause such an uproar, such unsolicited applause, and occasional bouts of vomiting among those who attend the shows? Only an experience can show you that. "
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/LavaCola/
Free MP3's on this site I think.
If you know any bands with websites, let us know, I love to here about great amature bands, and you never know when some one might be in the area to here some good music, plus I am sure the bands would not mind the free advertisement.
~Crack