5 Great Artists on MySpace Music That You Haven’t Heard

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 4:46 am

Over the past few months I have discovered a some damn good music on MySpace. Today, I want to share five of my favorite discoveries with you.

If you are wondering how I picked them I can only say there is no rhyme or reason, no new or old, and no discretion concerning Indie or mainstream. No real boundaries at all. These are just a bunch of songs that I heard that caught my attention. Check them out.

Walk of the Earth
Self described: Reggae/Ska/Dub (I would add acoustic rock)

Thoughts: Good harmonies. Fun. The kind of band you’d want at a beach party or around the campfire. Shades of Jamaica, the Chili Peppers and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones when they put down the acoustics. Also noticed they were from Ontario, Canada. Been seeing that a lot lately. The new hot-bed for talent.

Songs to check out: “Stolen”, “Broke”, “Gotta Go”

Running Still
Self described: Alternative/Rock/Pop (accurate)

Thoughts: They have a very modern, very polished sound with some great songs. Not sure what it is exactly but I just like them and I’m sure many of you will too.

Songs to check out: “Ordinary” and “My House”

Dave Kilminster
Self described: Rock (add blues, spanish, acoustic)

Thoughts: Good stuff across the board. He explores a number of different styles and pulls them off easily. Each song below has something for everyone. And just in case you need a little street cred, note that he was featured in Guitar Player magazine and performed with the almighty Roger Waters in 100+ shows.

Songs to check out:”If the Moon”, “Angel”, “Aragon” and “Harkness”

Liz Longley
Self described: folk/acoustic/pop (accurate)

Thoughts: In all honesty, I am hard to please when it comes to women artists. Outside of Stevie Nicks, a few Madonna tunes and handful of other sirens, I don’t own more than 20-30 songs – out of thousands – performed by women (long story).

Anyway, Liz does to me what hundreds of other women artist don’t, and that says something. Maybe its the acoustic, maybe its the honesty in her voice, I really can’t put my fingers on it. I just know that she is special. She has that cute, honest as hell, girl next door thing going on and its memorizing. I can listen to her for hours.

Songs to check out: “Whats Livin For” and “If You Want Me To”

Robot Lords of Tokyo
Self described: Groove metal soaked in whiskey, blood and napalm. (You just can’t beat that…they took the words right out of my mouth)

Thoughts: I mentioned them in a post about six months ago but I feel the need to mention them again because they just kick ass. Go check them out and then go buy the CD on CD Baby. Every song is good.

Songs to check out: All of them but start with these three. “Numb”, “Belly Full of Greed”, “Knock ‘Em Dead Kid” (Motley Crue cover)

That should do it for now but stay tuned. There are an estimated three million artists promoting their music on MySpace so I’m pretty sure that I will come across a few more at some point.