under 5000 monthly listeners
Captain Squeegee. A rare combination of ska and psychedelic rock. Their album To the Bardos! is particularly great, and ranks among my top 5 albums of all time.
The Brotherhood of Dae Han. Southern rock with a hint of
black metalmetalcore.Black Bonzo. A modern-ish prog band that sounds straight from the 70s.
Bubblemath. Progressive jazz fusion. Their first album was light on the jazz and pretty low-budget, but their second album, Edit Peptide, is the best in the subgenre, IMO.
Lotus Child. Indie alterna-rock. They only had one album, but it’s creative and interesting.
Bubblemath is amazing. Will check out your other recs almost wholly for their inclusion.
Yay! Black Bonzo! Lady of the Light is a great album.
Edit: oh that’s right, the album is self-titled
Cb mac
Technically they’re just over the 5000 monthly listeners limit (6955), but Xanthochroid is still relatively unknown and my favorite band of all time, so I can’t not share them.
Monarch ! the slowest band on earth a French Drone metal band who is heavy as hell and plays so slowly that it’s edge between music and noise. Pretty great if you want to set-up a dark-ambience or want to chill out over slow music.
Also they’re great on stage and the musicians are accessible like you can talk with them after the concert
Maybe my favorite band at the moment
Fathom XIX
Https://youtube.com/channel/UCJVgKoi_psT6xj1Ng1NVuwA
Also if you’re into pop punk
Found them through their singer’s YT channel. They describe themselves as acoustic stoner rock, which I feel is a good description. Lots of influence from Queens of the Stone Age.
Diamons Dallas Tex Although I’m pretty sure, a guy named Lil Texas is behind it, but I do not have confirmation.
200ish listeners a month… Criminal. This will likely be my hip hop album of the year if not the album of the year for me
Argyle Park and their official unoffical sequel AP2. Around 2.5k combined. My favorite song is “A New Wound” which is actually incorrectly listed as “A New World” but it is so unpopular that will probably never be fixed.
Lori Denae - 16 monthly listeners. Kinda Wanna is a great song.
Maida Rose - 1,192 monthly listeners. Harmony of Heartache is great too!
Mainlight, Ukrainian Dream Pop/Shoegaze band, 69 monthly listeners: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6imKZQuqvbjC1m5MRFIwG9?si=x87vJ3O_Qp2fPRECrSie9g
Pil & Bue - Norwegian 2-man band, emotive, melodic rock https://open.spotify.com/track/0kVNwwh6CGOoraQY7OBNEY?si=upyFAkKIR4WMqlKCwvQj_Q
Cybernetic Witch Cult - Doom metal with prog and stoner elements. https://open.spotify.com/track/7CYECvyqaE0Q2LqP9klpPq?si=ftVDlzEUSFS-ExUpVxGIrA
horseshoe theory - retrowave/synthwave/chillwave https://open.spotify.com/track/6ac1uMRP1AJxhfyTZLd6s1?si=8rNAQuJTR8Gv2n7-d-gvfA
And The Warlock Pinchers, who broke up like 30 years ago, but if you know, you know.
The Nature Centre - art-pop from Birmingham, UK. They’re great!
