What bands are good now?

[Alex]

I used to be really good about finding new bands, but i've been lazy lately and want you guys to do the work for me.
I like a lot of different music, not a real fan of the hardcore metal though.
Have at it.

[Infra-Man]

off the top of my head...

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (kinda like The Jam, Billy Bragg)
The Hold Steady (kinda like Thin Lizzy, The Replacements)
Andrew Bird (kinda like Badly Drawn Boy, a kooky Rufus Wainwright)
Ed Harcourt (kinda like a Tom-Waits-obsessed Rufus Wainwright, Nick Drake)
The National (kinda like Leonard Cohen, an-E-Street-Band-influenced Interpol)
Broken Social Scene (kinda like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive)
Jens Lekman (kinda like The Modern Lovers, Magnetic Fields)
The Helio Sequence (kinda like Mercury Rev, XTC)
Hot Chip (kinda like Fischerspooner, Junior Boys)
!!! (aka chk chk chk) (kinda like Les Savy Fav, Klaxons)
LCD Soundsystem (kinda like New Order, The Rapture)
Justice (kinda like Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers)
Girl Talk (it’s mash ups, so kinda like everything)
M83 (kinda like Air, a John Hughes movie soundtrack)
Headlights (kinda like Stars, The Postal Service)
Art Brut (kinda like a pop-friendly version of The Fall, Wire if they weren’t artsy)
Wolf Parade (kinda like Modest Mouse, Built to Spill)
The Arcade Fire (kinda like Talking Heads, Roxy Music)
King Khan and The Shrines (kinda like dancey 60s garage rock)
The Twilight Sad (The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Walkmen)
Camera Obscura (kinda like Belle and Sebastian, “sad bastard music”)
Locksley (kinda like a British invasion revival)
Lucky Soul (kinda like The Pipettes, The Cardigans if they listened to a lot of Shangri-Las)

[howyadoin]

The Arcade Fire (kinda like Talking Heads, Roxy Music)

I keep seeing those comparisons, and I have to say, the music doesn't back it up at all. The Arcade Fire and Roxy Music in particular are nowhere near alike.

[Infra-Man]

I keep seeing those comparisons, and I have to say, the music doesn't back it up at all. The Arcade Fire and Roxy Music in particular are nowhere near alike.

I dunno, "Rebellion (Lies)" in particular gives off an early Roxy vibe. Maybe Bowie's 70s work (particularly The Berlin Trilogy) is a better comparison?

[jesse_custer]

Check out these albums:

Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
Writer's Block, Peter Bjorn and John
We Are the Pipettes, The Pipettes

You'll be humming your ass off in no time.

[JoshuaCee]

Fleet Foxes and Handsome Furs are two bands that I've been listening to a lot in the past couple weeks. They're both good. :smile:

[GRANT!]

BLITZEN TRAPPER!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoY9qtHm6vs)

[GRANT!]

Broken Social Scene (kinda like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive)


I say they sound more like a poppier Sonic Youth with Dinosaur Jr and Pavement thrown in.

[JoshuaCee]

off the top of my head...

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (kinda like The Jam, Billy Bragg)
The Hold Steady (kinda like Thin Lizzy, The Replacements)
Andrew Bird (kinda like Badly Drawn Boy, a kooky Rufus Wainwright)
Ed Harcourt (kinda like a Tom-Waits-obsessed Rufus Wainwright, Nick Drake)
The National (kinda like Leonard Cohen, an-E-Street-Band-influenced Interpol)
Broken Social Scene (kinda like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive)
Jens Lekman (kinda like The Modern Lovers, Magnetic Fields)
The Helio Sequence (kinda like Mercury Rev, XTC)
Hot Chip (kinda like Fischerspooner, Junior Boys)
!!! (aka chk chk chk) (kinda like Les Savy Fav, Klaxons)
LCD Soundsystem (kinda like New Order, The Rapture)
Justice (kinda like Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers)
Girl Talk (it’s mash ups, so kinda like everything)
M83 (kinda like Air, a John Hughes movie soundtrack)
Headlights (kinda like Stars, The Postal Service)
Art Brut (kinda like a pop-friendly version of The Fall, Wire if they weren’t artsy)
Wolf Parade (kinda like Modest Mouse, Built to Spill)
The Arcade Fire (kinda like Talking Heads, Roxy Music)
King Khan and The Shrines (kinda like dancey 60s garage rock)
The Twilight Sad (The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Walkmen)
Camera Obscura (kinda like Belle and Sebastian, “sad bastard music”)
Locksley (kinda like a British invasion revival)
Lucky Soul (kinda like The Pipettes, The Cardigans if they listened to a lot of Shangri-Las)

We are friends. :smile:

[howyadoin]

I dunno, "Rebellion (Lies)" in particular gives off an early Roxy vibe.I can see some superficial resemblance to "Virginia Plain", I guess. But "Do the Strand"? "Same Old Scene"? "Love is the Drug"?




P.S. I should point out that I like both bands.

[TheMagneticSteve]

Read MOJO and avoid Rolling Stone like the plague.

(oh, and I agree with about 90% of the bands mentioned so far in this thread)

[GRANT!]

I can see some superficial resemblance to "Virginia Plain", I guess. But "Do the Strand"? "Same Old Scene"? "Love is the Drug"?




P.S. I should point out that I like both bands.

They do have lead singers that are overly dramatic. But I don't get the same vibe from them. Roxy Music always had that kind of creepy detached lonely or anxious vibe to them. Arcade Fire is more optimistic and energetic. I'd listen to them if I was running or planning to go to an Obama rally. Roxy Music is more for depressing night clubs and deviant sex.

[Infra-Man]

I can see some superficial resemblance to "Virginia Plain", I guess. But "Do the Strand"? "Same Old Scene"? "Love is the Drug"?

I say they sound more like a poppier Sonic Youth with Dinosaur Jr and Pavement thrown in.

Good points. I'm just hoping my batting average is still around .400.

[Black Vespa]

I keep seeing those comparisons, and I have to say, the music doesn't back it up at all. The Arcade Fire and Roxy Music in particular are nowhere near alike.


yeah,..i don't know if that hold's up either. - If you listen the The Arcade Fire's last album - Neon Bible ---it gives more credence to the Boss, -as strange as that may sound.. the previous album Funeral, - it's kind of hard to draw comparisons(always a good thing) but it has the spirit of an early U2 album...very spiritual.

at this point, -if there was any band I thought sounded like Talking Heads, - it would have to be Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, - and it would have been their 1st album, - self-titled. - -and that would only compare to their 1st album, Talking Heads : 77

oh...a couple of modest mouse songs seem to favor the feel of a good Talking Heads song.

[Black Vespa]

off the top of my head...

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (kinda like The Jam, Billy Bragg)
The Hold Steady (kinda like Thin Lizzy, The Replacements)
Andrew Bird (kinda like Badly Drawn Boy, a kooky Rufus Wainwright)
Ed Harcourt (kinda like a Tom-Waits-obsessed Rufus Wainwright, Nick Drake)
The National (kinda like Leonard Cohen, an-E-Street-Band-influenced Interpol)
Broken Social Scene (kinda like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive)
Jens Lekman (kinda like The Modern Lovers, Magnetic Fields)
The Helio Sequence (kinda like Mercury Rev, XTC)
Hot Chip (kinda like Fischerspooner, Junior Boys)
!!! (aka chk chk chk) (kinda like Les Savy Fav, Klaxons)
LCD Soundsystem (kinda like New Order, The Rapture)
Justice (kinda like Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers)
Girl Talk (it’s mash ups, so kinda like everything)
M83 (kinda like Air, a John Hughes movie soundtrack)
Headlights (kinda like Stars, The Postal Service)
Art Brut (kinda like a pop-friendly version of The Fall, Wire if they weren’t artsy)
Wolf Parade (kinda like Modest Mouse, Built to Spill)
The Arcade Fire (kinda like Talking Heads, Roxy Music)
King Khan and The Shrines (kinda like dancey 60s garage rock)
The Twilight Sad (The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Walkmen)
Camera Obscura (kinda like Belle and Sebastian, “sad bastard music”)
Locksley (kinda like a British invasion revival)
Lucky Soul (kinda like The Pipettes, The Cardigans if they listened to a lot of Shangri-Las)


you're kinda paintin' a rather broad brush on these "kinda like" labels.

LCD soundsystem sounds kinda like LCD Soundsystem, - each song carries it's own merit, - though they do wear their influences like badges...i'd say new order maybe for the measured beat on "tribulations" and as for the rapture,...even though they were label mates, - i'd say the closest resemblance they had was the signature DFA cowbell....but there's a helluva lot of nods going on with the 1st album. - go listen to "Great Release" again, and tell me it doesn't sound like Eno circa 1975.

Andrew Bird - does a masterful job of escaping sounding like someone else. -he's one of those guys that draws on multiple influences without sounding to close to any of them. all the albums he's done goes an opposite direction of the previous album

there's a whole bunch of other stuff going on with the descriptions you decided on, - but meh..

[Black Vespa]

each one of these are good, solid albums through and through...

Animal Collective - Hear Comes The Indian
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
TV on The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV on The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain *new album Dear Science came out!*
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
LCD Soundsystem - Self Titled
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Out Hud - It's For You
My Morning Jacket - Z
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Black Angels - Passover
Caribou - Andorra
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Tunng - This is... Tunng: Mothers Daughters and Other Tales
Tunng - Good Arrows
Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
M.I.A. - Arular
M.I.A. - Kala
British Sea Power - The Decline of the British Sea Power
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Worlds Apart
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Drive-by Truckers - Decoration Day
Drive-by Truckers - Dirty South
Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Phoenix - United
The Knife - Deep Cuts

[Rob.H]

Some of the bands straight from my current top list on Last.fm. These bands are reasonably new...

The Kills
Bon Iver
Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes
The Drones
The Grates
Heavy Trash
The Dodos
Kings of Leon
Band of Horses
Late of the Pier
Mates of State
Future of the Left
Peaches
The Black Keys
The Black Lips

[Adam C]

off the top of my head...

[LIST] Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (kinda like The Jam, Billy Bragg)
!!! (aka chk chk chk) (kinda like Les Savy Fav, Klaxons)
King Khan and The Shrines (kinda like dancey 60s garage rock)


I'd describe King Khan more as "kinda like 60s garage rock with a higher R&B quotient," !!! as "kinda like Gang of Four and Giorgio Moroder had a love child" (they're disco punk), and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists as "kinda like rocking ultimate."

Seriously Alex, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists rock ultimate.

[Spike-X]

I used to be really good about finding new bands, but i've been lazy lately and want you guys to do the work for me.
I like a lot of different music, not a real fan of the hardcore metal though.
Have at it.

Didn't you just get married? What makes you think you're ever gonna get to listen to new/good music again?

[Karl H]

Apples in Stereo
Flobots
Glasvegas
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
The Go! Team
Grandaddy (never grows old, their music)
TV on the radio
Spoon
MGMT
Noah and the Whale
Seasick Steve
Elbow
The Hold Steady
Black Kids
Last Shadow Puppets

[Infra-Man]

A couple more (some have been around for a little while) trying to avoid repeating other suggesstions and without the contentious/inaccurate "kinda likes":
Constantines
Minus the Bear
Channels
Rival Schools (apparently they're back together)
Menomena
Beirut
The Broken West
Sun Kil Moon
Jose Gonzalez
The Tallest Man on Earth
Maritime
The Submarines
Oh No! Oh My!
The Spinto Band
Matt and Kim
Los Campesinos!
Ra Ra Riot
Stars
Gutter Twins
Patrick Wolf


since a few gone-but-not-forgetten bands have been listed, I'll throw out:
Q and Not U
The Dismemberment Plan

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[jesse_custer]

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Worlds Apart

This is an underrated album.

[Adam C]

Didn't you just get married? What makes you think you're ever gonna get to listen to new/good music again?

He's MARRIED!? OMFG. You are dead to me. Go listen to your Dan Fogelberg or Fugazi Alex!

[Adam C]

EDIT:
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If Alex was still single I could tell him about the aweshumeness of Scott Pilgrim! But he's DEAD! *runs off sobbing*

[howyadoin]

He's MARRIED!? OMFG. You are dead to me. Go listen to your Dan Fogelberg or Fugazi Alex!C'mon, don't make fun. he still cranks some Phil Collins once in awhile, when he's feelin' crazy.

[C-Cool]

...err N.E.R.D!?

[Alex]

I say they sound more like a poppier Sonic Youth with Dinosaur Jr and Pavement thrown in.

Why, i like the sound of that, it will be the first thing i listen too!

[Alex]

Seriously Alex, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists rock ultimate.

That one wasn't new to me, i remeber first hearing him about 4 years ago,ish?
Anyway, i like a few songs, but sometimes his homeboys voice grats on me.

[GRANT!]

Why, i like the sound of that, it will be the first thing i listen too!

That's a point of reference. They don't sound as good as those bands.

[stealthwise]

This is an underrated album.

Probably because Source Tags and Codes is almost infinitely better.

Anyways, other bands that rock:

- Full Devil Jacket
- Dust for Life
- Volbeat
- Skindred

[Adam C]

Anyway, i like a few songs, but sometimes his homeboys voice grats on me.

"Homeboy voice?"

[Kara Zor El]

Some of my favorite current British bands doing the rounds at the moment.

Kaiser Chiefs

The Hoosiers

Kasabian

Check them out on YouTube

[DrewTheXenocide]

Stuff that hasn't been mentioned:

Be Your Own Pet - Super fun bratty punk. Unfortunately, they broke up sometime around last month.

Bomb the Music Industry!: Their record label describes them as "if Fugazi played ska-punk."

Girl Talk: Mix up, mash up, sample artist. Fun stuff.

[AbsurdistEmergence]

Klaxons
Kasabian
Black Kids
The Black Keys
Beirut
Bedouin Soundclash
Cold War Kids
Raconteurs
Super Furry Animals

[RickyMcDowell]

avenged sevenfold
the script
madina lake

a7x aint that new, but they are goood!

[FanboyStranger]

Definitely Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. I would rate them as my favorite band of the last decade.

[CJ Lentze]

Be Your Own Pet - Super fun bratty punk. Unfortunately, they broke up sometime around last month.Don't forget they had a really cute singer. Very important factor, that. :wink:

[Alex]

Klaxons
Kasabian
Black Kids
The Black Keys
Beirut
Bedouin Soundclash
Cold War Kids
Raconteurs
Super Furry Animals
List no longer being considered for included the bolded band.
:smile:
I used to kinda like Super Furry Animals though.

[Alex]

Bomb the Music Industry!: Their record label describes them as "if Fugazi played ska-punk."
.

Please consult adam on fugazi.

[zombie]

New-ish and new-to-me bands I've been digging lately:

Los Campesinos
Cut Copy
Girl Talk

Hm, I can only think of three? It appears I've lost touch with the hip and the new.

[Adam C]

Please consult adam on fugazi.

Considering my opinions on Ska punk, and that early Fugazi was described by Ian Mackaye as "if the Stooges played reggae", the description "if Fugazi played ska-punk" doesn't really get me enthused about this band. And I quite like Fugazi.

[Adam C]

Hm, I can only think of three? It appears I've lost touch with the hip and the new.

Indeed! And to think that you once lectured me about not knowing new bands! Hang your head in shame!

[zombie]

Indeed! And to think that you once lectured me about not knowing new bands! Hang your head in shame!

Yeah, well, I've been busy! With stuff! I'm not quite sure what though...

Give me a minute, I'll come up with a better excuse.