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Knowing you all love the BB's as I do,  I feel I can trust your musical tastes in helping me out.   I listen to oldies radio stations usually, and my ipod is filled with mainly older music.  I really want to find some newer music to listen to. I'm sure there are some fantastic bands out there that I haven't heard of, or may never hear of.  Can any of you recommend some good albums or bands you feel I should try?  As far as my modern tastes go, I like the Fleet Foxes, Mumford and Sons.  I also like heavier stuff and a heavy bass.  I LOVE banjo and drums  ;D   Thanks!

Tom Maxwell's "Kingdom Come" is a great album. So is Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear.

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Tom Maxwell is an Aussie!  Shame on me, I've never heard of him  :-[   time to change that!   Thanks.

I feel like it's too obvious, but if you haven't listened to Grizzly Bear yet, listen to "Yellow House" followed by "Veckatimest".

6 Big Ones:

The Red Button - two albums (She's About To Cross My Mind and As Far As Yesterday Goes)
Locksley - two albums (s/t and Be In Love)
Explorers Club - two albums (Freedom Wind and Grand Hotel).

Jherek Bischoff's Composed - hasn't been off my stereo in the past week. Might be my album of the year.

I third Grizzly Bear. Also how old are we talking? Do you have only 60's and 70's on your ipod? Or just nothing from RIGHT NOW. Check out these album:

Mgmt- Oracular Spectacular
No Age - Nouns
Mos Def - The New Danger
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Blur - Think Tank
Foster The People - Torches
Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

I'm afraid I can't help much but I did want to share some experiences. I, like you, would really like to like new music. I do really enjoy the Fleet Foxes and I loved Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois. If I can recommend a not-so-new but newer-than-60s band for a Beach Boys fan it would the Rheostatics - a Canadian band who were (like a comic's-comic) the envy of many rock bands in the country for years but didn't have much commercial success. If you want a Beach Boys connection, they also did the soundtrack to the movie Whale Music, which for my money, is still the best film that creatively uses the story of Brian Wilson. I kind of consider them to be the Canadian Beach Boys - they kind of created the country musically the same way The Beach Boys created California. They were probably the best live act I've ever seen as well. Nightly setlists were always radically different. I would try to pick up their 1992 album Whale Music and a follow-up album called Introducing Happiness.

Here's a not-so-wonderful video of the band performing a song from Whale Music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JamVIXlJA

I'll also post a video from Martin Tielli, one of the main guys in the Rheostatics. This is from his first solo album, and Martin looks decidedly like Nesmith in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXLSPcEkKFI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL7198FBEB72E997FD

Aside from that though, I found that what made me happier was delving even further into the 1960s to try and find as much as I could in that very fertile territory. I also became quite interested in the 1920s and early 1930s period of early blues, folk, and country. Investigating all that proved far more beneficial to me than looking for contemporary stuff, but I do certainly understand the drive.

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What a lot of these acts have in common is that they've expressed admiration for the BBs and VDP. Or in a couple cases have worked with Van Dyke. But I've just read that in articles here and there - I don't really know their music.

The popular music that I can recall liking, recorded in the past decade, could be counted almost on one hand - "Hey Ya" (though I kinda like JJ Light's song of the same title better, from 1969); a couple of tracks from recent Sparks albums; "That's Not My Name" by the Ting Tings; TWGMTR - all of it, even "Bill & Sue" by now; Van Dyke's recent 45s. And Scott Walker's The Drift - though it's hard to say to what degree some of it could be called music, much less popular...

Two modern bands that I really like:

Trampled By Turtles - Palomino (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT8gaiNVqOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT8gaiNVqOM))
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Fruit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EVMyL3XMn0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EVMyL3XMn0))

For fun psychedelic pop/rock with harmony vocals, I recommend The New Pornographers.

There's plenty of great material from this band, but here is one of my favorites...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-LDCRL8Js

Holy sh*t, I forgot Janelle Monae. Listen to The Archandroid. NOW.

What a great response, thanks!  I haven't heard of any of them... apart from Gorillaz who I really like.  I don't listen to modern radio stations as I can't stand the banter and repeat plays of new songs.  Really looking forward to listening to them all.  I'll let you know how I go.  Thanks, knew I'd get some great replies  :)

Some bands I'm into at the moment:

The Civil Wars
The Avett Bros.
Mumford and Sons
Blind Pilot
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Bon Iver
Milo Greene