So NOFX got me thinking.. there's been numerous topics devoted to how great a band is and that you should listen to them, but what about bands we should watch out for?

Yeah, that's why I made a MySpace group called Rock is Life, dedicated to talking about your favorite bands and upcoming bands to look for. I really try to focus on that.

But yeah, I agree. We should support the indies!

Eep I meant watch out as in baaaaad ones. I think I made one about local bands before, though.

Hmmm Smoke or Fire they kinda suck. as far as bad ones go.

Hawthorne Heights :[

Used to like them A LOT till I saw em live.

Does it really matter if they suck live...?
It won't matter to me since I most likely won't see anything live as I'm afraid of large crowds of people I don't know

i heard that SOAD sux A LOT live but ive nevre been to a show....

It matters to me. I want to know if the band I listen to on the CD is worth supporting. I mean it's not fair to the fans if the album they listen to sounds like it does mostly because of fancy pants technology.. Besides, it's just a topic..

um Matchbook Romance and Hawthorne Heights are really good live. The hush sound has a really good sound and their performances arent really exciting but the music makes up for that.. the "Indie" genre is supposed to be like underground,soft sounding blah blah blah but nowadays their all mainstream, u see Panic!, Maroon 5, Gym Class heroes all of them on MTV or Fuse so I dont know how the Indie scene is still going on but w.e Im really into old school punk rock- The ramones, The Clash, blondie etc

I heard of them..they are pretty bad

wow, i dont know any of these bands.

From the sound of it, it's a good thing you don't.

SOAD is actually pretty good. Korn sucks live, but its not like a lot of people care for them anyway.

QUOTE(bRoKeNxALoNE @ Jul 28 2006, 10:37 PM)

Hawthorne Heights :[

Used to like them A LOT till I saw em live.

really? I though they were pretty good. From First to Last... very bad. Not exactly my style of music anyway, but still I thought the main singer was having a seizure onstage.

Escape from Earth and Eyes are Round. These two bands aren't that great live. The bassist from Eyes are Round is probably the best band member, yet his talent is not fully utilized. It is hard to hear all the intricacies that thier records may contain live, but the live performance is not very promising. Neither have a good stage presense or a good ability to communicate to the audience.

facing new york. they opened for taking back sunday a few months back and oh man...i thought i was going to die during their set. they played for more than and hour and it was painful.

FFTL is amazing live!! and the whole seizure thing...he didn't look like he was having one when I saw them

NOFX sucks. Does that count?

haha yeah i herd they suck.

anyways heres one thing you probably think you'd never hear.
motion city soundtrack sounds way better live than on CD!

Voodoo Glow Skulls weren't good at all live. :\

Dude! I love Hawthorne Heights! Oh well, thank God they haven't been to Belgium!

I've heard that the Black Eyed Peas suck live.

Avril Lavigne. I heard her sing live on TV, if you get me. I almost puked. But she rocks though.

some good bands that people might know about that i've seen live are "The Killing Moon"(although i saw em when they were "animal suit driveby"), Chiodos, Grace Gale, The Blackout Pact(they sucked live), Greeley Estates(they sucked live), As I lay Dying, Atreyu, Story of the Year, Deftones(they sucked live), and i've seen like 230948 other bands, but yeah alot of stuff is done when in the mixing/production stages of making a cd and they make em sound better.

To me they don't. Although.. I've heard some not-so-good things about their performance on Warped Tour this year.

I heard My Chemical Romance sucks live, but I refuse to believe it, lol.

They don't, but they have the SAME EXACT SHOW EVERY TIME.

I heard that a lot too...but I disagree
and like Kathleen said, they do play the same exact show everytime. kind of boring, but their performance is