Loreena McKennit is good stuff. She has quite a few cd’s out. I like The Visit and Book Of Secrets.

The Future Sound Of Gaeldom is good coding music too. Review here.

Robert Randolph and the Family Band is excellent, I would recommend their CD, Unclassified.

Brother is really good too, they’ve got bagpipes, didgeridoo, electric guitars, and drums, This Way Up is a good CD of theirs.

Jackopierce (Not longer together, but still good stuff.)

Might not be new to you, but my current favourites are The Zutons’ Who Killed the Zutons, Paul Weller’s Studio 150, and Franz Ferdinand’s Franz Ferdinand.

Nickel Creek. They’re on iTunes, as well.

I don’t know if they are famous or not but I am a fan of Sway by The Perishers. Also, don’t shoot me but I listen to a lot of country. I know these guys are famous (if you know country) but their new song ‘Bless the Broken Road’ is amazing.

My current favourite track is “Let Go” by Frou Frou…

I first heard it when watching Garden State (written/directed by Scrubs’ own Zach Braff)… Such an amazing movie! The Garden State soundtrack rocks too!

I’m also listening to the new Daft Punk album.. While I wasn’t fond of it after the first time around, it’s slowly starting to grow on me… “Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, crash it, change it, melt, upgrade it… write it, code it, paste it, save it, load it, check it, quick re-write it…”

Oh, how I can relate! :)

I’ve been really into The Long Winters, The Decemberists, and Saturday Looks Good To Me.

I’d start with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. There are a handful of good songs available for download on the official site.

I always recommend anything by Elliott Smith as well. There is no official site that I know of, but there’s an excellent fan site at http://www.sweetadeline.net.

Keane should be banned.

I like Joni Mitchell a lot – she’s fantastic. She has a lot of albums and it is curious to follow her progress – she was outstanding being young with her perfect voice (but a bit ordinary songs) and now she’s aged and her voice is hoarse but her songs became incredibly deep. She was at Voodstock b.t.w. and she also painted covers for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Pinetop Perkins is outstanding too. His blues is deep and colourful, it’s unorgettable.

And a quick list of my beloved: Malia (highly recommended!!), Yuma Sumac, Alison Krauss, Antonio Carlos Jobim (no comments), Cassandra Wilson, Coco D’or, Pearl Jam, Queen, Goo Goo Dolls and more :)

Need good music? Check out www.purevolume.com. Tons of free downloads from some stellar bands. My favs right now are:

Showbread
Underoath
Acceptance
Anberlin
Further Seems Forever
MUTE MATH
Mae
postalservice
Head Automatica
Apollo 13

You can create a fav list in the listening area to keep track of your bands.

ENJOY!

BTW; did Joshua Radin nock off Gavin DeGraw’s site or what?

Here are my current favorites:

  Stars – 2005 – Set Yourself On Fire
  Bloc Party – 2005 – Silent Alarm
  Ben Kweller – 2004 – On My Way
  Saul Williams – 2004 – Saul Williams

These are getting some heavy rotation at the moment:

Owen – I Do Perceive
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Save The Streets
Damien Rice – O

Death Cab For Cutie is a fantastic band. Saw them live with The Long Winters.

Most of the albums I’ve been listening to non-stop for the past week or two have already been mentioned: Garden State soundtrack, The Zutons, Keane, Franz Ferdinand. The Scrubs soundtrack is also excellent. And for some reason I’ve also been on a Weezer kick lately…

iTunes new Music Tuesday normally helps me find quite a bit.
I came accross Jack Johnson and Rufus Wainwright through them. Wainwright’s Poses album is fantastic, and I have yet to not be pleased with any of Johnson’s albums.

Patty Griffin because I feel like I can challege a person’s taste in music if they don’t like her. :-)

I’d have to say that the album Ghosts by Sleeping at Last is pretty incredible. It’s been getting a lot of play time here lately.

Others lately:
Anberlin’s new album Never Take Friendship Personal for when i feel in the mood for something a little harder.
Caedman’s call for when I want something refreshingly tried and true.
Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna: amazingly beautiful classical.
Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism.
Solas’s The Edge of Silence, and Iona’s Open Sky for the celtic urges in me.

You can see it all if you want at my audioscrobbler page. Audioscrobbler is a really nifty site to track the music you listen to and find you suggestions and such.

I have really been digging into the roots of rock ‘n’ roll lately. I highly recommend “The Best of Electric B.B. King.” It mixes his early blues guitar riffs with some of his late electric jazz style. As always, if you need something to sooth your music hunger, grab Led Zepplin’s “Early Days and Latter Days.”

Surprised no one has mentioned the new Bright Eyes albums, these are absolutely essential listening. Rilo Kiley toured with them and their album ‘More Adventurous’ is quite good too.
Also one of the best recent albums (although it is over a year old now) is ‘Frengers’ by a Danish band called ‘Mew’. Not many people namecheck it but it really is a great album, I’m still listening to it now.

Explosions in the sky

If you are after descent music, visit www.ewradio.co.uk

Sean (#15): The Ted Leo album is called Shake the Sheets, not “Save the Streets.” It’s quite good, but The Tyranny of Distance is, in my opinion, a better album.

Some other good ones I am enjoying:
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Picaresque by The Decemberists
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and On Avery Island by Neutral Milk Hotel
You Forgot It in People by Broken Social Scene
The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
Transistor Radio by M. Ward
Sleep & Release by Aereogramme