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A thread for you to share with us the music you think we should be listening to. Feel free to post as often as you'd like!

Top of my list of music for friends right now:

 

MuteMath - Mute Math

You have probably never heard of these guys, but they're one of the best sleeper albums of the year. Great prog and experimental rock.

 

Keane - Under the Iron Sea

Not as good as their first album, and a little less accessible initially, but easy to get into after several listens.

Chris Thile - Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Great contemporary bluegrass album from a member of Nickel Creek (another great group).

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The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium

One of my favourite bands. While not a household name (yet), they're quickly gaining popularity, especially with the growing relationship with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Absolutely mindblowing stuff, and probably some of the best prog/experimental/latin-infused rock band you'll hear today. While not as good, IMO, their second album Frances The Mute is equally amazing and enjoyable to listen to. Additionally, their third studio album is set to be released August 22.

 

Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

It's amazing what these two guys, simply a Drum & Bass duo can come up with, consisting of some solid rock-infused dance beats. While some of the songs on the album do suffer from sounding eerily similar, it's a refreshing change from your standard 3/4/5 piece guitar band. Even more awesome, is their remix album Romance, Bloody Romance which builds upon much of the success of their debut album, infusing it with some new and creative life. Not sure how accesible these guys are where ever you might be, but you can always try you're favourite P2P program and see what you think (they're fairly local...a Toronto indie band, but pretty big in Japan, strangely).

 

Much more to mention another time.... :D

 

Edit: Lol...Limewire categorized one Mutemath's songs as "Christian Space Rock". Odd...

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Hocus Pocus by far, i don't even speak French and I can't get enough of them 73 Touches is an instant classic. but seeing as how most of you are rock junkies, you might like the Zoobombs. recomemded albums include Let it Bomb and Welcome Back Zoobombs

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Nine Inch Nails

- (Basically every album they made is good)

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers

- Stadium Arcadium

- By the Way

 

Foo Fighters

- In Your Honor

 

Gorillaz

- Demon Days

 

Sum 41

- Does This Look Infected

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The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

 

Radiohead - Ok Computer

 

Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

 

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

 

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans

 

Sigur Rós - ( )

 

Angels and Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper

 

The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2

 

Muse - Absolution

 

Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

 

The Postal Service - Give Up

 

The Strokes - Is This It

 

Quite a few there... but all very good. Go out and buy them.

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Blink-182 (including sideprojects ex boxcar racer and angels and airwaves)

 

T.I. The King or Trap Musik

 

The Queens of the Stone Age (my favorite, theyre very good)

 

Eagles Of Death Metal

 

Desert Sessions

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Ben Folds + Ben Folds Five

 

I'd check out Whatever & Ever Amen and Ben Folds Live.

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This is a Kinda large list... Listen to some of it.

Less Known Bands

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Barenaked Ladies - All Albums

Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights / Alone in the Crowd / Permanent Revolution

Five Iron Frenzy - All Albums

Less Than Jake - Losers, Kings, And Things We Don't Understand / Pezcore / Losing Streak

Mad Caddies - Just One More

Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off / Why Do They Rock So Hard?

Streetlight Manifesto - All Albums

Suicide Machines - All Albums

Swingin' Utters - A Juvenile Product Of The Working Class / Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass And Bones

 

 

Vary Well Known Bands

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Pink Floyd - All Albums

Led Zepplin - All Albums

Nirvana - All Albums

Queen - All Albums

Red Hot Chili Pepers - All Albums

They Might Be Giants - All Albums

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My alltime favourites are

 

American and English-spoken rap:

 

4th25 ('Live from Bagdad' is definitly 1k times more informative than CNN),

Hieroglyphics,

De La Soul,

A Tribe Called Quest,

Jurassic Five,

Loop Troop (Swedish rap),

Redman,

Mos Def,

Busta Rhymes,

Visionaries,

Wawesh (swedish rapper, originally from Kenya)

 

etc.

 

French speaking artists:

 

Daraa J,

MC Solaar,

IAM,

NTM,

Le troisieme Oeil,

Positive Black Soul

etc.

 

but i also love good old Rock'n'Roll....from Elvis to Sinatra to Uriah Heep, Mahavishnu Orchestra to the Dead Milkmen etc.

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Wolfsheim - Anything by them. Best thing out of Germany since Franziskaner.

 

Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask. It took me a minute, but now I love this record.

 

Also been digging Corrine Bailey Rae and Regina Spektor.. with heavy suggestion for anyone to check out Regina Spektor.

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Rap-Rock type of bands:

hed p.e

Rage Against the Machine (much better than audioslave)

Rehab

 

Rap:

Paradime (Kid Rock's DJ and a good rapper)

 

Country:

Shooter Jennings (Waylon Jenning's son)

David Allan Coe

Conway Twitty

 

REAL country for the win. (not that {censored} they play on the radio these days...)

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