Kompressor, I dont know how well known this is but Ive never heard of it from anyone before. Highly enjoyable synth and anger music. Pretty funny too.

"KOMPRESSOR sound is hard and angry, good words used for song and electronic."

http://www.kompressormusic.com/

kompressor is pretty funny
theres that song about vitamins or something that cracks me up

1. my sig- Electronic rock, sounds like an evolved linkin park.
2. Neutral Milk Hotel- Good indie music, very original.

Oh, and edit to add a few I found on the first page- Indexcase (Great live), Frank Black, and Apex Theory, who were on the verge of hitting it big with their last album. I saw them with Linkin Park and I must say that their performance was better. Oh, And Hed Pe's Broke album is worth a look.

I'd like to add the band Eleven to this list. Extremely underrated and underplayed. Great fucking stuff.

www.elevenworld.com

--jaded

papa m - guitarist from slint, tortoise and zwan does folky post-rock

hmm... the only one i can think of is Bérénice. this girl from france. very popular there! great stuff but nobody know's about her here... it's english music like hilary duff or michelle branch.(i know i'm a guy and i like it.. who cares!) check it out. best song is probably "I'm proud" enjoy! let me know if you like it.

Opeth, Emperor... Devin Townsend..

hmm don't know if these bands are well known or not but here goes...

the new pornographers
athenauem
mars electric
marvelous 3/butch walker
collapsis
dezeray's hammer
electrasy

the new pornographers are pop-rock, the rest are mostly straight up rock...

saut, don't forget to mention fu manchu ;)

there's also some other bands that I enjoy listening to that people don't seen to know of the first being a band called park off the record label lobster and the other being bright eyes, also added on is Dewponit blank off of www.brokenlinerecords.tk

Things mentioned... -

Modest Mouse - awesome indie rock, can't recommend them enough. I'd get The Moon and Antarctica to start, i think its their best album.

The Mars Volta - torn lace summed it up... fast and loud. With some jazz fusion in there too.

The Shins - happy music, not happy lyrics, awesome nonetheless.

Mentioned in passing...

At the Drive-In - Group who broke up into The Mars Volta and Sparta, punk-prog sound

Nightwish
Gothic//operatic Rock,
musically solid, I love the guitar work, but what really sells it for me is the lead singer. I love good female singers, and IMHO, she's one of the best.


Rustcycle
Techno with guitars.
I don't really know how to classify him, but it's damn good.


Android Lust
I'm sure that somebody could tell me what catagory she fits into, but I don't know it.
I guess it's a kind of electronica, but beyond that....
anyway, to quote myself, it's damn good.

Whatever happened to NMH? I heard the lead singer went into hiding or something years ago.

Here are some great and semi popular bands, meaning you could actually find their CD's in stores

Blonde Redhead
Clinic
British Sea Power
Sigur Ros
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Mum

HAHAHA, Kompressor is hilarious.

"Vitamins are Good" is the best.

Hell yeah! I love CCR!

For the Modust Mouse reccomenders: They're geting tons of playtime in Dallas/Fort Worth on 102.1 - the most popular "alternative" station.

THe band "Dispatch" may be more popular in other parts of the the U.S., but around here noones heard of them. They'd have to be my reccomendation.

Saosin.