List some of the good music you think's out there now

[mvd]

Maybe it will help those who haven't found much of today's music to enjoy.

Here's my list of some artists I sought out and loved, that don't get a lot of notice:

The Corrs (not as popular in the U.S.)
Camera Obscura
The Essex Green
Nina Gordon/Veruca Salt
Yo La Tengo
Damone
Leigh Nash
Thea Gilmore
Jennifer O'Connor
Lillix
The Weepies
Hem
Eisley
Stefy
Mojave 3
Wussy
Stacie Rose
The Like
Sufjan Stevens
The Pierces
Brandi Carlile
Amy Rigby
Courtney Jaye
Rogue Wave
Martha and Rufus Wainwright
Belle And Sebastian
Mary Gauthier
Libby Johnson
The Lemonheads
Margot & Nuclear So & So's
Josh Ritter
Cat Power
Pete Yorn
Rosanne Cash
Susan Cagle
Neko Case
Some Girls
Ingrid Michaelson
Regina Spektor
Pearl Jam
Holly Brook
Guster
Amy Millan/Stars
Allison Moorer
Gomez
Dirtie Blonde
Rainer Maria
Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
Ane Brun
Ellery
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Puffy AmiYumi
Lisa Palleschi
New Pornographers
Cori Yarckin
The Veronicas
Hope 7
Michelle Branch/The Wreckers (in case you missed them)
Butch Walker
Mindy Smith
Kasey Chambers
Steve Earle
The Decemberists
The Randies
Emily Haines/Metric
Cindy Alexander
Aslyn
Penelope Houston
Bonnie McKee
The Faders
Brie Larson
Megan Slankard
Maria Mena
Joseph Arthur
Butterfly Boucher
Abra Moore
Kay Hanley/Letters To Cleo
The Jayhawks
Neil Finn/Finn Brothers
Loreena McKennitt

And old standards like the Indigo Girls and Barenaked Ladies are still going strong.. if you want more artists, I could go on, but I'll stop for now.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Great list. Off the top of my head, I'd add....

Alejandro Escovedo
Bright Eyes and the entire Nebraska mob on his label
My Morning Jacket
The New Pornographers
Wilco
A bit older, but if you don't know Sleater-Kinney, you suck! ;)
Animal Collective
Spoon
TV on the Radio
The Hold Steady

That's just off the top of my head

P.S. Dude, some of those bands on there are not exactly "good music that's out there now." I mean, The Jayhawks? They're from the 80s. That said, mega-bonus points for including Sufjan Stevens, the best songwriter no one's heard of. :thumbsup:

[mvd]

2. Hi, SteppingRazor

Jayhawks have released some recent CDs. Louris is also part of Golden Smog, which I wasn't as impressed by.

I also like The Hold Steady (heard only samples though,) TV On The Radio, Sleater-Kinney, My Morning Jacket, and Wilco.

[SteppingRazor]

3. When I did my year-end wrap up for 2005, My Morning Jacket's Z...

topped my Top 10. It's lost a little luster over time, but it's still great.

[mvd]

4. Yeah, I have the CD

I like it more than some of their influences, in fact. It's one of those CDs you can get something new out of each time IMO.

[Chan790]

10. I think too many have heard of Sufjan Stevens to call him

the best songwriter nobody has ever heard of.

I think the title probably belongs to Adam Gnade of Adam Gnade and The Confederate Yankees right now. He does this magical talking-songs thing were he doesn't really sing as much as he tells you a story, much in the style of a troubadour. Everything is timed and set-out so that they perfectly match the backing tracks.

If you have MySpace you can hear him here:

http://www.myspace.com/gnade

The band's website is here, but doesn't have any songs on it:

http://www.adamgnade.com/

[Arugula Latte]

19. There's a reference to him in the Snow Patrol hit "Hands Open"

Put Sufjan Stevens on
and we'll play your favorite song
"Chicago" bursts to life and your
sweet smile remembers you

[bif]

5. I'll PM ya over the weekend

With my latest finds.

[mvd]

6. Thanks!

I actually posted most of my 2006 finds here, but I'll PM you with these if you like.

[bif]

11. I'm familiar with most of them

I'll write down the ones I don't know and check them out. Thanks.

[noonwitch]

7. Macy Gray

I love her music, so much that it makes me like some of Outkast's stuff off the Idlewild cd.

There's a Detroit band I really like called "His Name Is Alive". It's an electro-funk sound, not a religious band.

[mark414]

8. band of horses have one of the best albums of the year

called "everything all the time"

check it out...it will knock you out it's so good

the new adult swim/stones throw records compilation "chrome children" is solid as well

new records this year by:

califone
lupe fiasco
bonnie "prince" billy
tv on the radio
mission of burma
the decemberists

and

MASTODON's "blood mountain"

are all worth checking out

[underpants]

9. vIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BAND+OF+HORSES+everything+all+the+time

[Initech]

12. Here's who I think have put out some good albums this year:

Les Claypool - "Of Whales And Woe"
Yo La Tengo - "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass"
Queensryche - "Operation:Mindcrime II"
The Flaming Lips - "At War With The Mystics"
Peeping Tom - "Peeping Tom"
Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
Mastodon - "Blood Mountain"
Bob Dylan - "Modern Times"
Isis - "In The Absence Of Truth"
Iron Maiden - "A Matter Of Life And Death"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife"
Audioslave - "Revelations"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever I Say I Am, That's What I Am Not"
Wolfmother - "Wolfmother"
O.S.I. - "Free"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Stadium Arcadium"
The Roots - "Game Theory"
Muse - "Black Holes And Revelations"
Agalloch - "Ashes Against The Grain"
The Mars Volta - "Amputecture"
David Gilmour - "On An Island"
Kayo Dot - "Dowsing Anenome With Copper Tongue"
Sonic Youth - "Rather Ripped"
Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
The Racontuers - "Broken Boy Soldiers"
Weird Al Yankovic - "Straight Outta Lynwood"
Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam"
Beck - "The Information"
Outkast - "Idlewild"
Neil Young - "Living With War"

[patrick t. cakes]

18. the roots

yes!!:thumbsup:

[RedStateShame]

13. Of Montreal

Until Jeff Mangum decides to make another album(please?), those guys are Georgia's best songwriters. Yeah, I'm including the ATL in that, whut?

[mvd]

14. OK, just a few more

bif sent me a list that I will go through. I have some more of my own here:

Taylor Swift - young country artist who's just as promising as pop teens like Cheyenne Kimball, Sonya Kitchell, Brie Larson, Hope Partlow, JoJo, and Skye Sweetnam. Her music feels real and not part of the big Nashville money making machine. Her self-titled CD is one of the best country releases of 2006.

Miss Derringer - sounds weird, but I like it so far. I might give the CD a try.

Tara Jane O'Neil - unique, chiming guitar style. Another one to check out more.

The Be Good Tanyas

Catie Curtis

Sister Hazel

Nina Nastasia

Sparklehorse

Anne McCue

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3

My Chemical Romance (found them on the full album listening party, and it's more entertaining emo than usual. Definitely liked it more than Sparta.)

[BarenakedLady]

15. Guess who I'm going to see tomorrow night?

...I'm just sayin'

:woohoo:

[mvd]

16. Barenaked Ladies? Cool - have a great time!

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

20. Thank you

They always put on an awesome show.

[patrick t. cakes]

17. yo la tengo...

built to spill
sonic youth
st. germaine
devendra banhart
the decembrists
the magnetic fields
the autumn project
the clean
david kilgour
the unicorns
elf power
perpetual groove
railroad earth
old crow medicine show

so much more....

[mvd]

22. I bought my first Built To Spill album this year

You in Reverse is the CD. While a few songs are a bit long, it's a very good CD. Sonic Youth also released a good CD this year, but I can't completely judge them as a whole yet.

[mondo joe]

21. Michael Franti, Lupe Fiasco, Common Market, Rufus Wainwright,

Michael Franti
Lupe Fiasco
Common Market
Rufus Wainwright
Sufjan Stevens
Wilco
Morrissey
Jill Scott
The 88
OK Go

[Left Is Write]

23. I never would have put "old standards"

in the same sentence with Indigo Girls and Barenaked Ladies.

[mvd]

24. Well, they'be been around a while..

[Left Is Write]

25. I know, but when I think of "old standards", I think of well-known

songs sung by the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Mel Torme.

[mvd]

26. I guess I could have used different words

But I think people know what I mean - standards as far as artists I love.

[conscious evolution]

27. Donna the Buffalo

They absolutely rock out.

google some ofthese live versions.
Push Comes to Shove
A Current Theme
40 Days and 40 Nights
Blue Skies
Mrs.Rosa Parks
Hollywood Dreams

and my 'name' here
Conscious Evolution