Bands Obies Like

At Oberlin you encounter groups of students who are unanimously head-over-heels fuck-mad over one or two bands that are less known or completely obscure anywhere else.


Bands People Like Here (in alphabetical order)

  • Against Me!
  • Andrew Bird
  • Ani DiFranco
  • Belle & Sebastian
  • Bomb the Music Industry!
  • Danny Brown
  • Choking Victim
  • The Decemberists
  • Deerhoof
  • Defiance, Ohio
  • The Dresden Dolls
  • Feist
  • Fugazi
  • Ghengis Tron
  • Gianitron
  • Iron & Wine
  • Kimya Dawson
  • Lightning Bolt
  • MGMT
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Ratatat
  • Scissor Sisters
  • The Smiths
  • Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  • TV on the Radio
  • The Unicorns
  • The Violent Femmes
  • The World/Inferno Friendship Society