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I am not sure why I write this entry in English - first I thought I should use German, but then it came to my mind that even for many native German speakers, most of the bands I will mention are hard to understand. So I will use a language that all of these people can use as a means of understanding if everything else fails.

Mundartrock means rock music performed in German dialects, which includes dialects spoken in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The people of the latter actually consider their dialect a separate language, and according to the rule of a competent friend ("The difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has an army and a navy") and also to the percentage of text I can understand, they are probably right.

So let's start with the Swiss: Being just 7.5 million people (80% of whom speak "German"), they have a big number of artist performing in their dialects. A good friend from Liechtenstein has directed my attention to the Swiss music (thank you…