its a good scene for bands, not necessarily a good scene for listeners...
basically the only GREAT things that have come out of here (That i can think of off hand) are basically all the hippie-music bands (String Cheese and that business), and then Five Iron Frenzy/Brave Saint Saturn (2 of my personal favorites of all time) ...
for now there's lots of upcoming younger bands... there just aren't that many decent bands, which is cool for us, the music scene isn't entirely VERY competitive, whereas on the East Coast where we're touring this summer, there's 8 million bands to compete with for venues...
http://www.myspace.com/ttlester (band i play drums/keys in)
http://www.myspace.com/likechasingwind (friends band, horrible recordings they just got started last month, fun little style of music i think //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif )