Hope you had a good time! To be honest, I never had a good idea of what math rock is. That band I posted is self-proclaimed as math rock so I followed their lead. This Town Needs Guns is really cool though, and math rock is a very appropriate name for it! Really busy sounds, really thought-out lines that just fit in somehow.

For anyone interested - From the math rock wiki page:

"Whereas most rock music uses a 4/4 meter (however accented or syncopated), math rock frequently uses asymmetrical time signatures such as 7/8, 11/8, or 13/8, or features constantly changing meters based on various groupings of 2 and 3. This rhythmic complexity, seen as "mathematical" in character by many listeners and critics, is what gives the genre its name."

Hey thanks for your input! Sorry I'm just responding now. I get what you're saying, that could be very hard in an isolated area. I would encourage you to research bands from the nearest larger city or from a different part of your region. I understand that each and every town or city might not have a lot going on in terms of music, but I think we should try to keep it reasonably close. That being said, I would love to hear your local artist as well as a couple newly discovered artists that you might find. Bandcamp gives you the ability to search by city. If anything is close enough, it's a really cool way to get into the stuff around you.

EDIT: I also got some feedback asking about [REQUEST]s where someone can post a city and wait for other users to reply with artists in that area. /u/Teakay, if you want to test out this method, feel free. I would encourage an attempt at your own research first, but if that fails try to follow this format :

[REQUEST] ["city, ST"] [Pref: "preferred genre"]

That's a good idea and I'm sure there are many good people from the area that would be willing to fulfill those requests and many others that would be willing to dive into the scene to look for them. I do like the idea though. A few immediate concerns going that route: 1. the page could get flooded with unfulfilled requests or empty content that will bring the overall quality down. I do want people doing a little bit of research on their own so they can contribute to any kind of conversation that may follow. 2. do you think a lot of people would be into that 'reverse search' as in requesting a city? One use I can see is someone that is interested in a local scene but does not know where to begin. Yeah, I like that. For discovery's sake, I think that would be a good thing to implement.

Thanks for your input! Anything else that may come to mind, there is now a stickied post at /t/localmusic asking for input, so please feel free to check it out and weigh in on anything else!