Help a poor isolated music starved college student out
 

First off, I go to school at Mississippi State and it's the middle of po-dunk nowhere and the only exposure I have to any kind of music is MTVU and the local college radio station, both of which suck donkey nuts. I've only been able to get into mainstream bands and I wanted to expand into some more obscure music.

The bands I like are Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Slick Shoes, Dashboard Confessional, Breaking Benjamin, Coheed and Cambria, Finch, Chevelle...I could go on but I think you have a good idea.

So can someone help me out and suggest some indy/obscure stuff I might like? I'd really appreciate it.

Judging by those bands, all of whom I like as well I will recommend others. I'm not sure what you call mainstream and underground because these bands are well known in the whole punk-rock genre but most aren't in the "MTV" or radio sense.

Thrice
My Chemical Romance
Motion City Soundtrack
The Spill Canvas
Midtown
Less Than Jake
Matchbook Romance
Fall Out Boy
Alkaline Trio
Halifax
AFI
Underoath
Straylight Run - Soft, old members of TBS.
Rufio - Perhaps, I suppose album
The Postal Service
Northstar

haha that should keep you busy. No particular order.

The Dismemberment Plan.

www.epitonic.com has some mp3s of theirs for download.

www.dismembermentplan.com has some as well.

I like Alkaline Trio

:)

Death Cab

Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Slick Shoes, Dashboard Confessional, Breaking Benjamin, Coheed and Cambria, Finch, Chevelle...I could go on but I think you have a good idea.\

i havent heard of most of those bands, where have i beeen?

Park - I'm sure you will love these guys. They're amazing.

Some others would be:

Armor For Sleep
Letter Kills
Saosin (recently broke up i believe, only put out one EP, but still good)
Brazil
The Mars Volta
At The Drive In
Atreyu
Emery
Midtown's "Forget What You Know" Album
Funeral For A Friend
Sparta
Name Taken
Saves The Day
My Chemical Romance has already been suggested, but their new CD is so good it's worth mentioning twice.
Straylight Run
The Chiodos Brothers
Desaparacidos
Gatsby's American Dream
Time To Fly
Elliot
As Tall As Lions

These should also keep you busy.

Yep agree with Zenship's picks, Saosin did not break up but they are looking for a new singer

Can you get internet radio? There are some killer stations out there, if you just start looking around. I'm sure many people here can give you some idea, I had several that I listened to, but lost the links.

Thanks everybody. I really appreciate all your help.

I'm now off to my local record store...

O man, should have given you this in my early post but if you want to preview these bands most of them are on, or just find new ones yourself, www.purevolume.com Judging by your tastes you'd def. appreciate the site.

I know none of the groups you mentioned, but I love the site:
http://www.musicplasma.com/

Enter a band name, and it will somehow figure out what's very closely related, and what is more distant. Very accurate based on the groups I know, and I put in some obscure stuff.