It's kind of hard not to be into local music if you leave the house at all in NY. Let's see bands I'm into lately:
<a href="http://www.teepeerecords.com/badwizard/">Bad Wizard</a>
<a href="http://www.worldinferno.com/">The World Inferno/Friendship Society</a>
Live Girls! (no link)
And countless others, I can't remember at the moment....
Oh, besides my band:
<a href="http://www.xs-for-eyes.com/">Xs for Eyes</a>