Favorite band you've discovered this year?
they can be new or old, it doesn’t matter.
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Probably Squeeze Awesome New wave/post punk era UK band!
Deltron 3030 and Asamov, neither which you have heard of.
Wiretree and Sugarplum Fairy.
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There are tons, but Crystal Castles stands out. They are at the top of my playlist right now.
Here are a few bands that i’ve really fallen for this year:
Caroline Smith
The Virgins
Cat Power
Kings Of Leon
Blitzen Trapper, Breakestra, Fleet Foxes, anything on NPR song of the day, Grizzly Bear, The Swell Season
awww man thanks shadling21 i completely forgot about crystal castles
Final Fantasy. I know he has been around for a while but I just recently discovered his music.
Probably El-P
edit :: (NSFW) or if kids are around.
Sigur Ros is wonderful. They have been out for awhile but I have just recently discovered them.
Pretty much everything Uber said minus 1200 Micrograms I already knew about them.
@ Ladytmerie Sigur Ros is pretty awesome. I only have four of their songs are there more?
Scouting for Girls and Alphabeat
I just discovered Lenka and a while ago, from reading answers here, Lemon Demon.
last month I fell in love with cloud cult. indie + cello = awesome.
Adam Fielding, Amoeba, Ambient Teknology, Pendulum and Zilla.
My favorite has to be Adam Fielding (at the moment, although i was hooked onto Pendulum not so long ago) and all bar Pendulum are available from Magnatune, a fantastic online music store with hand picked, non-mainstream artists. It’s really good stuff :)
Porcupine Tree, Muse, Neal Morse, Transatlantic, Daft Punk, Dunderbeist, Stonegard, Opeth, Rage Against The Machine and Spocks Beard
@Trance24 Sigur Ros has several cds. All are amazing. I saw them live and they were breathtaking, the whole audience was speechless after their gig.
@ greeengloves that is amazing. Where did you find their CDs they are not well known where I am. Do you live outside of the US by any chance? I can never find their music on the net, and pretty sure they do not sell their CD’s in the stores I have been in.
Versailles. Their song zombie is tight as hell. But warning: they’re very weird.
Speaking of Zombie i never heard this song until this year somehow.
Well I didn’t so much discover them obviously because I knew them before but I didn’t really realise how good their stuff was and how much I would like Coldplay until this year.
@greeeengloves I envy you so much, I would absolutely love to see Sigur Ros live, their tour of Iceland look amazing beyond all belief.
@Trance24 Sigur Ros have created some beautiful music, and their albums are fantastic, here’s a simple Amazon search for them: Amazon I first got Takk…, then (), then Heima with Hvarf/Heim and then Ágætis Byrjun and their new one Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. If I was to pick out my favorite, it would have to be their ‘movie’ Heima as it’s got a range of their lovely songs. As for my favorite album, erm, Takk…? Ágætis Byrjun is lovely as well and contains some of the first songs I ever heard from them.
@Trance24 http://www.sigurros.com/ has a lot of downloads for a good price. I am from the US and a small town too, but I can find any of thier albums in my local music store. If you have an independent music store anywheres near you you might find them there. I don’t think places like FYE and Strawberries would carry them.
@Nimis that collarbone video is amazing.
Gree: Isn’t it deliciously deranged?
Have to admit (the first time I saw it) I was rooting for the aliens(?)
to make some kind of Frankenstein animal out of all those parts though!
Daft Punk, Ting Tings, Kevin Rudolf (Not a band but you get the point)
@rss, cloud cult is awesome! and i love there green activism! I recently hung out with the drummer from Cloud Cult (who also plays with Caroline Smith). Really nice guy. I’m looking forward to seeing them in NYC soon.
seconds on Cloud Cult, Flobots, and Blitzen Trapper. I also just got really into Noah and the Whale.
@wil: like their sense of humour – not so sure about the music….
haha. don’t it remind you of mario, or gameboy? :p
@foolaholic: yeah! they’re rad.
I was at a mountain goats concert a few days ago, and Kaki King opened since she sang on their new EP. I gotta say, that girl blew me away. I’m just bummed I hadn’t heard her sooner.
I spent all of yesterday listening to Josh Fix and RJD2. Josh Fix is like Queen meets early Elton John meets up to the minute songwriting smartness. RJD2 is instrumental hip-hop at its very best: funky, intense, cool. If you watch Mad Men, RJD2 does the theme song.
Pocketbooks
Yelle
Black Kids (also by way of Kate Nash)
Superswamis
and of course:
Peggy Sue and the Pirates
which should’ve been our band name, even though we don’t have a band.
Most recent discoveries:
Ida Maria
Katy Perry
flobots, shwayze, eykah badu, flatfoot 56, mates of state <333
The Waybacks from California, Laid back guitars, fiddles, drums, and other instruments, easy on the ear…
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