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Great Artists with < 10,000 Monthly Listeners

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Great Artists with < 10,000 Monthly Listeners

For a few years we've had a very popular thread "Recommend a band with fewer than 500 followers". A lot of you have shared great bands you've discovered that had less than 500 followers. 

 

Some bands you all recommended in the above thread were:

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Now that the artist page format has changed to monthly listeners, we're starting this thread again. When you find a great artist with less than 10,000 Montly Listeners share it here. 

 

1. Right click on the song in Spotify.

2. Click 'Copy Spotify URI'.

2. Go to your Community post. 

3. Click 'Insert/edit link button'

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4. Paste URI.

5. Click Post. 

 

Today I'm recommending Reuben Hollebon, a singer-songwriter from Norfolk. Any fans of Bon Iver, Patrick Watson will love. 

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Follow this thread's playlist here: 

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Alternative Rock

They have 6.292 monthly listeners

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Water and Man 

 

Indie Rock from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

51 monthly listeners

 

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Fleeting Circus

7,147 monthly listeners

Progressive Rock from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

 

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Milwalkie

237 monthly listeners

Indie Rock from Germany

 

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Cathedral Pearls, from Spokane WA.

Waiting on You, and Etchings are two highlights.

 

 

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Today, I will recommend New York Tourists, Indie-Rock British band from Blackburn, with actually 363 monthly listeners. Song taken from new album "You + Me".

 

 

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This relativel unknown danish band has created some of the greatest songs of all time (imo).

Gorillaz "melancholy hill" was greatly inspired by one of their greatest songs 'Masselinien', so check it out here:

 

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Today I recommend Dreamend--a bluegrass meets shoegaze with an Explosions in the Sky feel. 

 

Based out of Georgia, USA, just 546 listeners but he deserves much, much more

 

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This great Hardstyle track is best I ever heard in my whole life. Only less than 1,000 streams!!!

 

What's wrong with people. Out on DJ Beat Records since 2009!!! And only under 1,000 ALL TIME streams! It's few in month!

 

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And under 1,000 streams???

Great forum for unknown music ^_^ So much good music in this thread!!

 

Some of the tracks (some of them from great new albums) I've had on rotation under 10,000 this week:

 

90 monthly listeners: 

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9870 monthly listeners: 

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7405 monthly listeners: 

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3157 monthly listeners: 

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8852 monthly listeners: 

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 I recommend a norwegian singer/songwriter Dylan Mondegreen with 1298 monthly listeners right now.

His last album, Every little step (2016) is great!!!

 

 

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The Goods.

 

Today, I will recommend Duchess Says, Electro-Punk Canadian band from Montreal, Quebec, with actually 1338 monthly listeners. First single from new album "Sciences Nouvelles" due to October 2016.

 

 

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Boat Beam, indie pop with 7279 listeners

 

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Today, I will recommend Grubby Little Hands, Psychedelic-Rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with actually 260 monthly listeners. Song taken from new album "Garden Party" available since April 29, 2016.

 

 

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This one caught my ear today. Also, amazing album art.

 

For fans of indie surf rock with a dash of a shoegaze feel

 

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Few Bits, dream pop with 1834 listeners:

 

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Glass Vaults have 4,755 but make some hauntingly beautiful and lush pop music. Like this song:

 

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Today, I will recommend The Claypool Lennon Delirium, new psychedelic duo formed by Les Claypool (of the band Primus) and Sean Lennon (of The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger), with actually 7824 monthly listeners. Song taken from debut album Monolith Of Phobos available June 3, 2016.

 

 

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