Hey, if you don’t consider this list “ultimate,” I won’t be offended. I tried. Really though, what kind of list like this can be 100% complete? Newark, Delaware is actually pretty well known for having an active band scene (or at least it used to be known for that), and with the tendency of bands to form and evaporate, well, you just do the best you can to be comprehensive.
What we have here is a list of bands (or solo artists) from 1987 to 2007, that didn’t necessarily originate in Newark, but absolutely played the bars, fests, or even the Scrounge. Nope, this isn’t about, “Hey, Jane’s Addiction played the Balloon.” It’s about the bands that were / are based locally -- or reasonably close -- and you’d associate with your years at UD.
Yes, I know some purists consider grouping original and cover bands together as sacrilege, but with many bands known for both, it didn’t make sense to split the list. So, here we go, and hopefully this will bring back some memories for you…but hold on for a second! Did I say 2007 above? Yes, this list needs years’ worth of updating and your help. Just do me a favor and send in legit bands for the list, and not stuff you just made up to see if I’d add it. Thanks in advance, and here we go…
3 Can Sam
5 Shot Limit
61 North
84 Lumber
Adam Beck
Adam Brodsky
Adam Kruger
Alex and Nich
Alms to Sots
Amanda Kaletsky
Ampere
Amy The Rat
Ant Farm
Antje Duvekot
Apex Watson
Arms of Orion
Attic
Azure Drake
Backwoods
Bad Cop No Donut
Bad Hair Day
Bag of Nickels
Barabas
Bare Essentials
Batz Without Flesh
Beat Clinic
Bellefonte
Belly Up
Ben Lewis
Beru Revue
Big Idea
Big Meat
Big Orange Cone
Bill Kintzer
Black Market Flowers
Black Throat
Blue Miracle
Bohemian Sunrise
Bombs Away
Boy Sets Fire
Breakerz
Brian Kirk & The Jirks
Brill
Brother / Sister
Brother’s Past
Bruce Anthony
Bullets
Bullette
Burnin' Thousands
Burning Bus
Burnt Sienna
Butternut
Caltrop
Caravan
Caterpillar
Cease The Day
Cecil’s Water
Charming Arms
ChaseHer
Chatter Band
Chester River Runoff
Chorduroy
Chowderfoot
Chris D’Esposito
Chris Delusso
Chris Morrow
Chubby Buddha
Chucky
Clevinger
Clobbersaurus
Club Phred
Clubber Lang
Comet vs. Planet
Contraband
Copious Load
Cordalene
Cosmic Funk Orchestra
Count Von Count
Crazy Planet
Crazy Saints
Crushing Day
Cubane
Cure for Pain
Dandelion
Dark Star Transit
Daze Alone
Delaware Rag
Delfumo
Delirium Theory
Diatribe
Dice Productions
Dickswinging Kids
Disco Biscuits
Don't Call Me Francis
Donkey Punch
Dorian Gray
Dr. Dog
Dr. Longwood
Drake
Drunk on Sunday
E. Shawn Qaissaunee
Eldrich Annisette
Elk-Tones
Endless Mike Jambox
EPH Tradition
Epic Squid
Every Wednesday
Everything
Farmer's Daughter
Fat Apple
Fat Daddy Has Been
Fever Dog
Fig and the Goodtime Buddies
Fighting Gravity
Final Chapter
Flash Grenade
Flip Like Wilson
Flower Soup
Flying Plain
FM Kill
Forfeit
Four Souls On Fire
Foxy Moon Baby
Foxy Ole
Free Beer
Freudian Slip
Full Minute of Mercury
Funnel
Fuzzy Bunny Slippers
Gangster Pump
Gelner
General Electric
Gentle Jones
George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers (Formed in the early '70s, but had to include them!)
Giant Panda
Gingham Shmuz
Good Girls Don’t
Great Train Robbery
Green Eggs and Spam
Greenberry Woods
Grinch
Groove Palace
Hallowed Cain
Harsh Reaction
Headless Mantis
Healthy Doses
Hekyll & Jive
Herbie
Here & Now
Hidden Hand
High Karate
Holy Fucking Spirit
Homegrown
Honour Society
Hot Rock & The Heatstrokes
Huffamoose
Hurt
HyJinx
Hyperactive
HyperMaru
IKE
Impulse
Inflatable Dates
J. Arthur Band
Jaetna Hose Hook
Jah Roots
Jamie & The Hot Rocks
Jamnation
Jaundice
Jealousy Curve
Jefe
Jeff Barbas
Jimmy Smooth
Joe Daphne
Joel Rakes
Johnny Duke & The Aces
Johnny O and the Classic Dogs of Love
Juliet’s Wishing Well
Jupiter Green
Kobayashi Maru
Kristen and The Noise
Labor Day Saints
Ladder Company
Lake Trout
Larry Roney
Larry Unthank
Lash Larue
Laura Lea & Tripp Fabulous
Lead Boots
Lean
Lefty Groove
Leslie Cary Band
Lesson One
Lexicon of Bad Words
Life Groove / Push
Lima Bean Riot
Lime
Liquid A
Little Invisibles
Lolita Nation
Long Walk Home
Los Hombres Mas Mucho Del Mundo Rock!
Lost Boys
Love Seed Mama Jump
Love Syndicate
Lower Class Citizens
Lowercase Blues
Lucky
Mad Sweet Pangs
Mango
Marchitect
Marcus Hook
Marmalade
Mary Arden Collins
Mass Movement of the Moth
Melissa Cox
Melodius Funk
Mia Johnson Band
Middle Earth Blues Band
Mini Band
Minos Conway
MoFaux
MojoHand
Montana Wildaxe
Monterey Popsicle
Moonshine Mile
Mos Eisley
Mother Nature's Blacklight Rainbow (previously FireTribe)
Mother’s Garden
Mothers Magilicutty
Mr. Greengenes
Mustard Seed
Mutha Load
My America is Watching Tigers Die
Mystery Machine
Network 34
New Direction
New Potato Caboose
Nice Trick Liar
Nick Everett
Nimbus
Nine
No We Are Not Food?
NRG
ONE
One Too Many
Origami For Addicts
Overise
Paint It Black
Paypack
Peters Cathedral
Phantom Limbs
Phatboddum
Pilot Round The Sun
Piper Down
Piss and Vinegar
Plastic Parts
Plow
Porch Chops
Portable Folk Band
R.O.G.
Raccoon
Radiowhore
Rai Nation
Railhed
Raymond Listen
Red Alert
Red Handed
Reflex Blue
Regular Size Monster
Rick Fusco
Roark
Robot Monster
Royal Palm Steel Band
Rubber Uglies
Ruder than You
Rup Dupa
S/he
Schleigho
schroeder
Sevender
Sex Doggee and The Mistood
Shannon Penn
Shooting Ropes
Sin City Band
Skip Castro Band
Smashing Orange
Smiley Disaster
Sofa Kings
Soraia
Sorry About Your Daughter
Soul Creation
SOULoh
Sound Asleep
Space Vipers
Speaker City
Spindrift
Spitshine
Spontaneous Underground
Stargazer Lily
Stealing December
Steamroller Picnic
Steph Hayes & the Good Problems
Steve Pepper Band
Stone City
Stone Groove
Stranded on Third
Strange as Angels
Streetsweeper
Stucco Lobster Breadbox
Stygian Veil
Sugar Daddie
Svingali
Sweet Briar
Sweet Shock
SYP
Teen Men
Tequila Mockingbird
The 49ers
The Absurd
The Armadillos
The Band
The Barnaby’s
The Beat Clinic
The Bessemer Process
The Bridge
The Bub
The Capitol Years
The Catalyst
The Catalyst
The Caulfields
The Cocks
The Collingwood
The Conowingo Homeboys
The Crash Motive (formerly Omnisoul)
The Dharma Bums
The Fabulous Greaseband
The Feel
The Fiction Department
The Funatix
The Houseplants
The Jam
The Jeff Barbas Project
The John Faye Power Trip
The Kaitlin Sweeney Band
The Kelly Bell Band
The Kill Quota
The Knobs
The Lenny Pierro Group
The Little Kings
The Look Machine
The Mental Custodians
The Nazarites
The Nerds
The Outriders
The Procretaors
The Punky Brewsters
The Red Oranges
The Relay
The Rising
The Sauce
The Scenic Route
The Scott Harris Project
The Skatologists
The Sky Drops
The Snap
The Spinto Band
The Venturas
The Verge
The Vybe
Theory
Third World
Three Legged Fox
Thumper
Thunder Brew
Tin Pan Alley
Tisra Til
Tokin' White Boy
Tom Scherr and Pat Downling
Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
Tony Mowen
Tony Travalini Band
Townhall
Trailor Park Riot
Tree of Life
Tribal Instinct
Tribes
Underground Cartoons
Virginia Coalition
Von Hayes
Walleye
What Mama Said
Whitebread
WillaPark
Woolly Mammoth
Xenophon
XFusion
XOL
Y-Not
Yolk
Zane Campbell & the Gravel Pit Ramblers
Zelazowa
Zen Guerrilla
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