Need some new music...

Do you like everything besides country?

old school stuff that just makes you wanna dance and feel “the funk!”

ohio players
james brown
parliament
funkadelic
earth wid and fire
bootsy collins

add these to your collection and you will be hooked as well as mystified by the nostalgic sounds…

… and isaac hayes the “chocolate chip” album.

don’t know your taste in music, but if you play it, it will turn heads…

and, well, set the mood for whatever…

@jmah: keep in mind, this is music that was played by real live bands. no electronics. real meter. skilled musicians that played stuff for real. your mind has to be open…

amaze your friends at parties with this stuff…

george duke
roy ayers
average white band
70s elton john
chicago
steely dan

@charliecompany34 I would love to listen to some tunes with you sometime. You just listed a lot of the good ole stuff!!

Old Crow Medicine Show

Hmm kinda hard without any kind of genres your looking for soo ill just list some random stuff ive been listening to recently

Talking Heads
Ratatat
Buckethead
That One Guy
Jusitice
Shpongle
Girl Talk
Example
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
OhGr
Whitey
mc chris
Pogo
Dj Dangermouse

hopefully theres something in there that you’ll like

Check out DJ Format and an older band called Skeleton Key. You be dancinwhile listenin.

and finally, the isley brothers—from the 70s. they have good recordings since then, dont get me wrong, but the 70s was the hey-day.

Beulah
Ghostland Observatory
Soldiers of Jah Army
Bedouin Soundclash
Strike Anywhere

A little bit of everything (some country), love blues and funk (thanks, Charliecompany – will definitely check them out), but electronica is more of what I’m looking for. I just bought some DJ Mita www.myspace.com/mitaarmando
(Quebec) and some Lydia Prim www.myspace.com/lydiaprim.

New new music? Check out my top ten picks of 2008 (with sample tracks).

New old music? Electronica, huh?
Brian Eno “Before and After Science,” “Another Green World,” “Music for Films,” “Taking Tiger Mountain”
Jean-Michel Jarre “Equinoxe”
Kraftwerk “Autobahn”

Been checking out everyone’s suggestions. Thanks!

Three of my favorite albums:

Dispatch – Silent Steeples
Citizen Cope – The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
Jack Johnson – Thicker Than Water Original Soundtrack

Note: That’s the only good Cope album. All of Dispatch is good. And, if you like Jack Johnson, you might be interested in G Love and Special Sauce. Good groove to most of that stuff.

@jonsblond lurve for OCMC! I just watched them on Austin City Limits. They are awesome. My suggestion is Ray Lamontagne. His new one, Gossip in the Grain or Till the Sun Turns Black.

@jmah- seriously check out Old Crow, they are a little bit of everything you mentioned, except electronica.

@jmah if your looking for electronica, then justice and ratatat are where its at.

@soapchef- That’s where I first noticed them about a year ago. The best!

My new favorite is Dr. Dog. (their album Fate is awesome)
They sound like a todays Beatles or Beach Boys.

Something a little softer (singer/songwriter) try
M.Ward’s album Post-War

Want more rock n roll go for My Morning Jacket’s new album Evil Urges

Also:
Department of Eagles,
Telephant,
David Karsten Daniels,
Neko Case,
Band of Horses

DJ Format is good. Really good.

great suggestions from pupntaco on the link!!

Bonnie Prince Billy
The Lodger
Wax Fang
Shout Out Louds
Magic Numbers
The Ditty Bops

Yay for the Ditty Bops! I just discovered they have a new album.

Loving these suggestions. =)

A few from me:

Koop
Klaxons
Mason Proper
Swayzak
Le Peuple De L’herbe
Passion Pit
Hercules and Love
Thievery Corporation
Crystal Castles
Nortec Collective
The Presets
Les Savy Fev
Chairlift
Boyz Noise
Happy Apple
Refused
Datarock
Vampire Weekend
DJ Harry
Junior Boys

Okay, here’s an eclectic mix of artists for you, some obscure, some not.

Alabama 3 (A3)
A good album to start with is Exile On Coldharbour Lane

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Start with the album Facing Future

Stan Ridgway
Start with The Big Heat

Jimmy Cliff
Start with his self-titled album

The Pixies
Start with Doolittle

Matisyahu
Youth

Blitzen Trapper
Furr

The Smithereens
Meet The Smithereens! (A Beatles cover album)

Wyclef Jean
Welcome to Haiti Creole 101

Wall Of Voodoo
Call of the West

The Real Tuesday Weld
I, Lucifer

They Might Be Giants
Flood

Groovie Ghoulies
Go! Stories

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66
Herb Alpert Presents Segio Mendes & Brasil ‘66

Alan Parsons
A Valid Path

Electric Light Orchestra
A New World Record

Modest Mouse
Good News For People Who Love Bad News

and last, but never least
The Beatles
Abbey Road (The greatest album ever made!)

Hopefully there is something there you’ll like.

AC is hip for a mailman..

Oh, yeah. That reminds me.
The Postal Service
Give Up

Give up is a fantastic album.

Anything with Benjamin Gibbard is going to be great!!

Amadou & Miriam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JEdf7XsV5g Buena Vista Social Club – Chan Chan

I’ll throw my name in the hat as well.

Ugly Casanova- Sharpen Your Teeth
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
My Morning Jacket- The Sandworm Cometh, Z
The Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree
Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak, Youth and Young Manhood, and any of their singles (IMO you should avoid Because of the Times and their newest album Only by the Night)
Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place, How Strange Innocence

+1 for AstroChuck mentioning Modest Mouse but Good News For Bad News is not even in their top 5 albums IMO…

Modest Mouse- Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks (EP), The Fruit That Ate Itself, The Moon and Antarctica,This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

Since you mentioned you like electronica look up these DJ’s (you might have already heard of them)

Above and Beyond
Alphazone
Armin van Buuren
Basshunter
Cosmic Gate
DJ Roland Kenzo
DJ Toxic
Tiësto (of course)
Ferry Corsten
Flutlicht
Hybrid
Nexus
Paul van Dyk
Solarforce

Also: one of my personal favorites: The Polish Ambassador

Oh and a non electronica album I forgot to mention (although it uses a lot of pop-sounding synths) is:
Epoxies- Stop the Future

I have to add Plasmic Honey (or Sal Basile) to the list of DJs. One of my faves.

REAL HIPHOP:
Atmosphere
Felt
Murs
Onebelo
Soul Position
Brother Ali
Nujabes

Others:
Lily Allen
The Hush Sound
The Number 12 Looks Like You
Kate Nash
Cartel
Underoath

check out www.lucrativevibes.com

they have a great music download site.

Laura Veirs!

Cold War Kids
Vampire Weekend
Muse
Parliment
TV on the Radio
Arcade Fire
Bloc Party

This is a friend of mine, Alo Moniz. He has a band called “Alo and the Narcissist”
Here is their website:

http://aloandthenarcissist.com/