Any other Noise rock/music lovers?

[Frank Zapatista]

I listen to a vast amount of music but for some reason my tastes always come back to one thing, noise. I love the idea of music without borders, no guidelines, just pure expression. I just love the sound. A lot of the music I like will end up being Noise rock/music or some form of highly experimental music. I like Melt-Banana, Lightening Bolt, The Locust, Swans, Big Black, Scratch Acid, Sonic Youths early stuff, I also listen to a lot of lo-fi punk stuff. I listen to just straight up noise too, stuff like Merzbow.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Have been a long-time fan of Sonic Youth, sometimes Melt-Banana as well as some of the other 80s and 90s noise and lo-fi bands like Sebadoh. But now there's actually a lot of really interesting and good bands out there I like from No Age to the Intelligence to the Sic Alps. The lo-fi movement in punk really brought the genre back from the dead: Jay Retard, Nobunny, and Ty Segal have some great stuff. Underground rock now is as good as it was in the late 80s and early 90s in my opinion.

Living in the San Francisco Bay Area I have a soft-spot for the local lo-fi garage punk psych scene. The Oh Sees are amazing, (Sic Alps, Ty, and Nobunny), White Fence, Fresh & Onlys among many others.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Lo-Fi punk and noise from the Yay Area:

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[Crux]

I only listen to high power drills and vacuum cleaners.

[Fawkes]

I only listen to high power drills and vacuum cleaners.

"The Stooges' early musical experiments were more avant garde than punk rock, with Pop incorporating such household objects as a vacuum cleaner and a blender into an intense wall of feedback that one observer described as sounding like "an airplane was landing in the room.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges

[Yuppie Grinder]

Check out Won James Won. They're an awesome noise/experimental rock band from St. Petersburg. There style is really versatile, varied, and progressive. They touch on all sorts of styles and it's really dope stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIEiMiyvU0&feature=BFa&list=AVzxVttpJsLPiarxJn8bILy_-R_QKSbiqQYeqtBdc_9e1JXPQEanxtMjqrcOT_g0lv&lf=list_related

[Jimmie Higgins]

Have I recruited anyone to the San Fransisco garage scene cult yet? I beg you to go look up the Oh Sees and see them live - the first time I saw them the crowd turned into a mosh pit in which no one could really move - it was like being swept away in a salty warm sea of teenagers - but more enjoyable than that sounds. That first video I posted of them is a decent representation of their live shows, mild but decent.

And you've never really experienced a mosh-pit until you've been in the middle of one while on e. Getting a shoe in the face from a stage-diver was like getting kissed by ten mermaids!

Local music makes me so happy these days: a synthesis of the best of the 90s and the 60s San Francisco scenes - it's like they put the scary freak back into "hippy".

[Crux]

Have I recruited anyone to the San Fransisco garage scene cult yet? I beg you to go look up the Oh Sees and see them live - the first time I saw them the crowd turned into a mosh pit in which no one could really move - it was like being swept away in a salty warm sea of teenagers - but more enjoyable than that sounds. That first video I posted of them is a decent representation of their live shows, mild but decent.

And you've never really experienced a mosh-pit until you've been in the middle of one while on e. Getting a shoe in the face from a stage-diver was like getting kissed by ten mermaids!

Local music makes me so happy these days: a synthesis of the best of the 90s and the 60s San Francisco scenes - it's like they put the scary freak back into "hippy".
I liked Meat Step Lively. The second song did not really move me though. But well, they seem interesting I suppose.