Music your excited about right now
 

These bands are just truly unique and fresh......

Mars Volta
Keane
Muse
The Darkness
Frou Frou
The Postal Service
Snow Patrol
Jonny Lang
Kasabian
Jet

and also:
the new Modest Mouse
glad to hear Super Deluxe is back
new tunes from Jimmy Eat World
and Sky Cries Mary
(all locally-bred bands, I might add.....)

Music that I'm excited about right now? MY OWN! :D

The Mars Volta truly are an amazing band. "De-loused In The Comatorium" is by far one of the most moving and well played albums I own. Good music - great concept etc. Their new EP leaked onto the IRC not to long ago - have you heard it?

It seems as if I've got the greatest luck ever: tomorrow I'll be seeing the Mod Flanders Conspiracy, I'll be seeing The Dillinger Escape Plan for FREE on the 20th, I'll be seeing Arsis on the 5th of next month, and I've already got tickets for a Suffocation/Cattle Decapitation/Behemoth show next month....

As of right now I'm getting lost in Borknagar's "Epic" album.

Interested in sending some of it out?

Yes, but I dont have it recorded yet. I only have midi files or ptb files. Once I get actual mp3s sure deal!

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Belle & Sebastian
Nick Drake
Against Me!
Brian Vander Ark
Stew
Elliott Smith

I think that's it. Springsteen, also.

Acutally, I am right there with you. I'm getting back to my true love and passion, and experimenting. I love it. We should exchange work sometime!

Dizzee Rascal hasnt really made it in America yet, but he should. He is truly the poet lauraete of the txt msg generation

Katie Melua also, she has a beautiful voice.

kpm
life aquatic soundtrack
mellow
lupine howl
concretes
bent

I'll second (or third) The Mars Volta. I haven't been able to find their new EP for download yet, so I just have to wait for the release date.

I also agree with the comment about Dizzee Rascal, great hip hop, but I'm not sure if it'll ever catch on here. According to people I've showed it to, they "cant understand him".

Also, I dont think it's new, but Jehst. A friend just sent me one of his CDs (I have no idea how many CDs he has out) and it is some of the best hip hop I've heard in at least 3 years. Of course, he's british too, so I'm sure the same people wouldn't be able to understand him. Their loss.

My new Crotchduster CD is amazing! Anyone into metal with quite a bit of humor should check them out.

My Arsis CD I just ordered today. The Red Chord I just got last night. I haven't heard much of either one, but I was impressed with what little I heard from both.

If the new Tool ever comes out, I'm sure I'll be excited about that.

Kindred The Family Soul

Also just discovered The Roots.

pauline oliveros/the deep listening band

chris watsom: weather report (amazing manipulated field recordings...)

ocora records--i have been raiding the music library at the university where i work--along the way i have developed a small but growing obsession with the output of this record label--consistently interesting "folk music" recordings without the goofy obsession with "purity" and/or "authencity" that characterizes the output of other labels.

Switchfoot
Shinedown

Not much, I guess I'm a boring person.

the Killers
Keane
Muse
Air

Not sure if there's one or not. I've DLed a bunch of live stuff, and that's all I'm listening to. Some of these are bands I didn't get into until I heard live stuff.

Marilyn Manson (their great live)
Metallica (so so in what I have)
Depeche Mode
The Cure
System of a Down
RHCP
NOFX
Pennywise

Rilo Kiley
Snow Patrol
The Arcade Fire

I've also been into The Postal Service for several months, but they still seem fresh and exciting to me. :thumbsup:

Pearl Jam
Anathema
Isis

My Dying Bride is coming out with a new DVD and Cd in a few months. Amorphis is coming out with a new CD. And Danzig is coming to town!

the killers
the hives
the music
(jon spencer) blues explosion
division of laura lee
bjork
bauhaus
the birthday party

What songs/albums/bands have been highlights so far?

Hmm threads like this just keep comin up....I think I'll take a break first then add my contribution :D

Asta!!

hmm
The Weakerthans
The Postal service
Ted Leo and the pharmacists
and I'm waiting for that flaming lips documentary that's supposed to come in march....

it's funny someone mentioned froufrou I remember a while back listening to details and loved it(especially it's good to be in love) , but they didn't seem to get much attention now suddenly everyone seems to know them...even though they've had nothing new lately...or have they?

i've taken a liking to My Chemical Romance.....great harmonies and something a little bit different than what i've been listening to.

rufus wainright
his style is a little off the center of my musical tastes and not exactly new, but he's an impressive wordsmith and musician

My current exciting ones.

Faithless - no roots [especially 'mass destruction']
madvillian
kj-52
mc frontalot

and...

Citizen Cope

Right now im really hooked on the killers. Getting into the whole indie thing and synth.

The Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band With Choir (all one band).

check out the faint

Sure deal, I'm guessing from your picture in portraits that you sing, wanna be my singer? :D

They had a song on the Garden State soundtrack, I believe. That might be the cause of it.

Also, *HIGH FIVE* for the Ted Leo.

Lovedrug. I'm obsessed with Lovedrug.

If you like the Killers, check out Louis the 14th... my friend just got back from touring with both of them, I'm pretty bored with the rock-revivally stuff, but it's decent.
*Madvillian/MF Doom - Vic never dissapoints, but the newest stuff kills.
*Coconut Monkeyrocket - Godawful name, but they are like a funkier version of Avalanches - check their split with Martinibomb.
*OneBeLo aka OneManArmy - He wowed me in the Binary Star days, and his solo-stuff might even be better.
*Haiku D'etat - Acey has long been a favorite, this is no exception to his great work.
*The Kleptones - I cant praise these guys enough, this year alone they've gotten into more legal battles than anybody since maybe Atari Teenage Riot. Their album "A night at the hip-hopera" Mashed up a large chunk of Queen's Discography and hip-hop, which came out AMAZINGLY, and then later on "Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots" which was a Flaming Lips/Hip-hop mashup killed too.

Devendra Banhart
Kimya Dawson & Adam Green
Thievery Corporation
Regina Spektor
Low
The Libertines
Ben Harper

Rilo Kiley.

I hate liking any bands that all the "hip blogs" like, merely on principle that everybody just LOVES them. When I hear a lot of them, my main thought is "what's the big deal?" But I really "got" Rilo Kiley. I passed the disc on to my wife, who also fell in love with them. It's very rare we both get turned on to new music at the same time. So I'm real excited about them at the moment.

currently i have stumbled back to Lennon..been listening to LOTS of his stuff. But i also cant put down Misery Signals. Kind of oposite ends of the spectrum...but hey...variety is good.

TV on the Radio
Devendra Banhart
Ex-Models
Thunderbirds Are Now!
The new Blood Brothers cd
Joanna Newsom
Death From Above 1979
Deerhoof
The Fiery Furnaces

I hafta go with Rilo Kiley too. Damn good music.

Sage francis 2/08/05

the Libertines
Elliott Smith

Race The Sun
Keane
Snow Patrol
Colin Hay
The Killers
Senses Fail

Dillinger Escape plan
Isis

Thats about it. Theses 2 bands are incredible though.