Music:
Member Since: 5/2/2006
Band Website: islandofsound.org
Band Members:
Indie: Bad Daughter, Braces, C Major, Chasing Sparrow, Claire, Dolly's Pillbox, Doodle, Emily, Freckle, Green!Eyes, Ladybug, Lost in Vega, Nipples, OrangeGrass, Original Think Action (OTA), Peppercats, Peppermint, SMOL, Tin Pan Alley, Tizzy Bac, Tube, We Will Love Each Other Forever (WWLEOF), Won Fu, 8mm Sky, 88 Guava Seeds, 393-B1, 1976, Murmur, Shine & Shine & Shine & Shine, Easy, Colorful, Blue Velvets, Merry Go-round, My Major Miseries, Subway, Sorry Youth, Micro Cosmos
Punk: B.B. Bomb, The Broken Flowers, Chicken Rice, Children Sucker, Da Gi Shion (D.G.S.), Fall of this Corner (F.O.T.C.), Fire Extinguisher a.k.a. Fire Ex, RPDX, Oi, Freestyle, Full House, Hardcore Party, Heavy Smoker, Hindsight 20/20, Hotpink, Jump Jump Egg, Ladybug, L.T.K. Commune, Maho, Mary Jane's Friends, Neo Shark, Punk Cow Team & Niupizhi, Reproduction, Semi-conductor a.k.a. Semi-con, Sexy Lips, SM, Silly What, Spunka, Sugar Lady, Vanish, The Hindsight, Fakery, 831, Stay Gold, Angry Young Man, Damn Kidz
Electronica: Claire, Digihai, Green!Eyes, KbN, Nylas, Varo, Starchild, Weathermen, 78 B.P.M.
DJ/MC/Hip Hop: DJ Fidy, DJ Lim Giong, MC Hot Dog, Hiya, DJ Mykal, DJ Noodles, DJ Randy, DJ Tao, Tzu, DJ Stingray, Viba, Kolette, Moshang, Iron Ska, fishLIN, Kou Chou Ching
Taiwan Rock: Anarchy, Assasin, backQuarter, Black Hand Nakasi, Chairman, Champion, Chthonic, The Clippers, Echo, Fen, Groupie, Ladybug, L.T.K. Commune, Mayday, Mojo, So What, Wu Bai, 1976
Indie Pop: Cheer Chen, Ciacia, Glory, Natural Q, Sandee Chen, Sodagreen
Tizzy Bac, Won Fu
Expat Rock and mix-tones: Consider the Meek, The Daymakers, The Deadly Vibes, The Deported, Milk, Red 23, Rocket Girl, The Sound Clashes, Sister White, .22, Fireflower, The Anglers, Rizing Starz Music Club, Null Bomb, Selling Us Everything, KbN, Public Radio, Divebomb, Neon, Electrocute, Red-I and the Riddim Outlawz, To A God Unknown, Tsunami
Here are some of Taiwan's indie bands on myspace already (more to come!!)
Varo
SMOL
Chasing Sparrow
8mm sky
Emily
To a God Unknown
Fall of this Corner
Consider the Meek
The Sound Clashes
Point 22
The Daymakers
The Deadly Vibes
The Deported
Children Sucker
Semi-con
Da Gi Shion (D.G.S)
Neoshark
Hotpink
Hindsight 20/20
Digihai
Influences: Indie Rock, Brit Pop, Rock 'n Roll, Hip Hop, Pop Punk, Punk Rock, Rockabilly, Post-rock, the Night Market, chicken rice, beef noodles, boba tea, milk tea, the MRT, guitars, laptops, Taiwan Beer, KTV, Karaoke picnics, The Underworld, Spin, Scum, the Wall, Riverside, Paisawan, Kenting, Fulong beach, scooters, the Danshui River, Yan Ming Shan, Autumn Tiger, Spring Scream, Mid Autumn Festival, Chinese New Year, dreams, girlfriends, boyfriends, parents, teachers, Confucious, Buddha, 711, the KMT, the Green Party (DPP), China, Military Service, Binglan, Japan, the US, Wong Kar Wai, Ming Tsai Ling, Jim Jarmusch, Lim Giong, Cheer Chen, Wu Bai, Chairmen, L.T.K., Chthonic, Freddy, Feirenbang, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Sid Vicious, Rancid, DJ Krush, Johnny Cash, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, Jon Bon Jovi, Nirvana, Softball/Akiakane, graffiti, break dancing, turntables, the Dirty Three, Cat Power, Tom Waits, coffee, cigarettes, whisbey, star fruit, the Ocean, earthquakes & typhoons...
Sounds Like: Anything from Eddie Cochran to Radio Head... Don Ho to Limp Bizkit... Rancid to Madonna...
Record Label: TRA-TCM-White Wabbit-7 Inch Vinyl-Silent Agreement
Type of Label: Indie
