Musicians you discovered through the Internet

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When MTV actually played videos 24/7, I loved how it opened my ears to artists. Now that they've gone stupid, I've learned that the Internet can be an even better source for acts that deserve more attention. So, who are some great acts you've discovered through the Internet? Here are some of mine:
Cranes (dream pop band. Nice instrumentation)
Within Temptation (kinda like Evanescense)
Skillet (you folks know these guys. Actually, I heard their song Monster on a WWE commercial and checked them out afterward)
Velvet Revolver (What do you get when you replace GNR's lead singer with Scott Weiland from STP? This!)
Cage the Elephant (if you've played Borderlands, you know them. They do the song "Ain't No Rest For the Wicked")
Anberlin (A Christian rock band, but you wouldn't know it)
Augustana (pretty good stuff)
1,000 Year Old Crutch (The loudest Christian Rock band I know)
Falling Up (sister band for Kutless)
Them Crooked Vultures (features rock god John Paul Jones from LED ZEPPELIN!:rock:)

- Shampoo
- bis
- Allo Darlin'
- One Happy Island
- Fever Ray (if you like Bjork, you'll love Fever Ray)
- Bjork (I had heard of her, but I didn't listen to her until I randomly downloaded her music one day. Now I can't get enough)
- Roisin Murphy/Moloko (the woman in my icon)
- Best Coast
- Capsule
- Aberdeen
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Curve

This is just off the top of my head; I have a lot more.

The Baseballs
REM
Bananarama
Devo
Emenimem
Jacksoul
It's A Beautiful Day
Thomas Dolby
Lobo
The Box
The Outfield
Broadcast
Lynard Skynard
Shania Twang
Marria Carry
Sarah McLauglin
The Black Eyed Peas
The Trills
The Bangels
The Arctic Monkeys
Helloween
Music of the 20s and 30s

Flyleaf
Kanon Wakeshima (J-pop, but really deep once you look at the lyrics)
Most Vocaloids

And if you like Fever Ray, I highly recommend checking out Karin's other project, The Knife.

As far as what I've discovered over the Internet, the only one I can think of is Porcupine Tree. I had an account at Pandora a few years ago, and I put The Mars Volta as one of my search criteria, and one of the suggestions made to me was Porcupine Tree. However, since then, I've discovered lots of other music as a result-- Riverside, Lunatic Soul, Anathema.

Hehe, a month or so ago I ended up going off in a short essay about this topic on facebook =P.

Essentially I think we're in one of the best times there is for music because of the internet. MTV killed muisc and turned it ultra corporate, By 1999 you had the same 2 dozen artists lightly sprinkled in between MTV's commercials and non-music reality/game/talk shows and the radio was no better, it was just the same stuff over and over again and if you were lucky you might catch a new artist the 1 time it ever got air time between the same 2 dozen artists their corporate sponswer already dumped millions of money into backing therefor requiring them to be played if the station wanted to get payed.

Blogging and Social networking has created a massive explosion in the indie scene. Word of mouh has a whole new meaning when one person can write one sentence or share one song on Facebook to 2,000 people instantly where as 15 years ago to instantly publish to that many people meant expensive and hard to get magazine space.


Everything I've discovered in the last 10 years has been online. Via friends sending me links, discovering on Myspace or Facebook and just browsing blogs about music.

It's absolutely wonderful, a super talanted band can create just as professional an album with a laptop, a decent mic and $50 of software that 15 years ago would have required TONS of money and studio connections.

The 69 Eyes(Insanely hot lead singer)
Suicidal Romance(Insanely hot guy in the band)
The Birthday Massacre(Two Super hot guys!)

Huh? I discover all the music I consume via the internet. Well, 95% of it. The other 5% is discovered via support acts and festivals.

Jonathan Coulton

Porcupine Tree

Spock's Beard

The Flower Kings

(those last three came up when I logged into last.fm, and asked for artists like Rush)

Traffik
Inigo Kennedy
Patrick DSP
m1dy
Robert Armani
Sven Väth
Somatic Responses
Chris Liberator
Umek
Omar Santana
Rotterdam Terror Corps
Rob Gee
Lenny Dee
Guyver
Nasenbluten
Jochen Hippel
Oil10

Bleed The Sky
Soilwork
All the bands from Scrub Club Records:
Southside
Deafinition
Dr. Awkward
etc.

major "mule" hollis- he was a basso produndo who also played the string bass, he could sing way down low in the sub-bass vocal register, at the same low pitch as the notes he bowed on his string bass, all the way down to low E!

j.d. sumner, another basso produndo singer who is in the guinness book of world records for having sung the lowest note [a low C-0] on a pop music recording, elvis presley's "way down." he must be heard to be believed.

julius waktkins, a jazz french horn player who was the ONLY french hornist to do both vibrato and tremolo on his horn, which is unheard-of on the french horn.

google 'em, people

I've discovered a lot of music from the net because I never watch music videos anymore on TV & about the only time I listen to the radio is when I go somewhere with my mom. I listen to stuff online or on computer most of the time. I've discovered lots of artist in other countries from the net as well as lots of comedy music that would be next to impossible for me to have found out any other ways. There's too many artist for me to list here

[quote=delirium]- Bjork (I had heard of her, but I didn't listen to her until I randomly downloaded her music one day. Now I can't get enough)[/quote]
Did you know she used to be in a band called The Sugarcubes? You might want to check them out.

Here are some musicians/bands that I'm interested in that I discovered on the internet: Frank Zappa, Yes, Headkase, The Mars Volta, The Mothers of Invention, King Crimson, DragonForce, Captain Beefheart, Primus, Smile, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Buckethead, Dog Fashion Disco, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Van der Graaf Generator, Beardfish, Dream Theater, Feathers in Chains,

There've been a lot of bands that I discovered on the Internet, probably too many to list. However, the first artist I remember "discovering" on the Internet was Tara MacLean. Here's one of my favorite songs from her first album:

"That's Me" - Tara MacLean

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYq-fU2wpt8[/youtube]