1999--2009

[lance]

Who are your favorite artists that have emerged in the last decade? I don't mean your favorite albums(which could be from old hands like Dylan...or Brian Wilson for that matter) but your favorite NEW artists?

[Alex]

Some of these artists may have been around before '99, but here goes, in no particular order:

Fountains of Wayne
Camera Obscura
The Postmarks
Animal Collective
The Decemberists
Daft Punk
Feist
Blink 182
The Thrills
Rilo Kiley
Neko Case
New Pornographers
Wilco
Yellowcard
The Fleet Foxes
Jason Mraz
Arcade Fire
Coldplay
Rise Against
Anti-Flag
NoFX
Modest Mouse
MGMT (one of their members grew up in the town north of mine)

[The Heartical Don]

I must be getting old.

[lance]

I definitely am, which is why I'm asking. My music collection sort of drops off after 98 or so, reasons being that my life got in the way and then I moved to Europe and was effectively cut off from popular culture for long time...but I want to hear new, good music. I can't plumb the past forever.
So thank you Alex. Some of those artists I know, but I'll see if I can't get my virtual hands on some of the others.

[The Heartical Don]

I definitely am, which is why I'm asking. My music collection sort of drops off after 98 or so, reasons being that my life got in the way and then I moved to Europe and was effectively cut off from popular culture for long time...but I want to hear new, good music.
So thank you Alex. Some of those artists I know, but I'll see if I can't get my virtual hands on some of the others.

Haha, yes. I wanted to fill in: 'Mercury Rev', and 'The Flaming Lips', and 'Massive Attack', until I realized that.... ah, you'll know what I mean.

[lance]

Exactly...

[hypehat]

You'll definitely love Sufjan Stevens. pick up his Illinoise album, it's just insane.
Sigur Ros you've probably heard of, but worth mentioning.
Animal Collective are worth a shot
Bat For Lashes might fit the bill as well.
And i can't believe no-one mentioned the SFA, but they don't really fit into your time band

[lance]

Who are the SFA?

[8o8o]

Who are the SFA?

Super Furry Animals. A very lovely Welsh band.

[lance]

Oh, yeah. Actually I have three or four of their albums.

[The Heartical Don]

Oh, and I found one, at last. Around 1999, there emerged an enigmatic guy who played splendid live shows and made very fine albums.

His name?



















Brian Wilson

[lance]

I have all his albums actually, except the Christmas one, which is oddly the only one I've seen sold in these parts.

[The Heartical Don]

I have all his albums actually, except the Christmas one, which is oddly the only one I've seen sold in these parts.

He's good, innit? I predict a great future for him. If he can stay off the drugs, that is.

[JB Wilojarston]

I would add El Perro Del Mar & Loney Dear.

[the captain]

Most of the ones usually talked up around here don't do it for me at all: Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, etc.

I'd say the ones I like most who are either mostly or entirely post-'99 are (in no order) Herman Dune, Half-Handed Cloud (a Sufjan band member, and far more interesting to me), Heartless Bastards, the most recent Polyphonic Spree (but not the earlier couple), Iron & Wine, Of Montreal, Voxtrot's EPs (but not the album), the Shins first couple albums, the Fiery Furnaces, Belle & Sebastian, the Delgados, Arab Strap (those latter three are all mostly or entirely defunct). I liked Jenny Lewis's first solo album, but not the more recent one. M Ward has done some cool stuff, but I'm not a fan of everything by any means.

And frankly, some of the best music in this decade does come from some much-older artists: Tom Waits far and away most of all, with Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello in the picture, too.

But of course a Brian Wilson fart sounds better than anyone else's best song ever, I suppose. Or at least that's what is bound to be dragged up.

[The Heartical Don]

Most of the ones usually talked up around here don't do it for me at all: Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, etc.

I'd say the ones I like most who are either mostly or entirely post-'99 are (in no order) Herman Dune, Half-Handed Cloud (a Sufjan band member, and far more interesting to me), Heartless Bastards, the most recent Polyphonic Spree (but not the earlier couple), Iron & Wine, Of Montreal, Voxtrot's EPs (but not the album), the Shins first couple albums, the Fiery Furnaces, Belle & Sebastian, the Delgados, Arab Strap (those latter three are all mostly or entirely defunct). I liked Jenny Lewis's first solo album, but not the more recent one. M Ward has done some cool stuff, but I'm not a fan of everything by any means.

And frankly, some of the best music in this decade does come from some much-older artists: Tom Waits far and away most of all, with Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello in the picture, too.

But of course a Brian Wilson fart sounds better than anyone else's best song ever, I suppose. Or at least that's what is bound to be dragged up.

Hi Luther -

I agree with your wit&wisdom. Waits and Dylan are great. Dylan is like a vintage red wine, in fact. There is a sweet melancholy mood that pervades all of his latterday albums. And the latest one was released yesterday in this neck of the woods...

[the captain]

And the latest one was released yesterday in this neck of the woods...

Was it? goshdarn you and your neck and your woods. I've got to wait till Tuesday.

[lance]

Belle and Sebastian are too old, I'm looking for newer stuff, thank you for the rest of your suggestions, though, Luther.

Of course several old artists are still going strong! But I don't need to be pointed in their direction, I guess--I mean...I've heard plenty of Bob Dylan and B and S and Waits, more interested in bands I haven't heard of at least  in this thread anyway.

[the captain]

I wasn't trying to point you in that direction. Or any direction. In fact, I don't give a damn what you listen to. I was talking about my favorite subject: myself.

[Wrightfan]

Gorillaz is the only one I can think of.

[The Heartical Don]

Does Lambchop count? I am fond of that band.

[phirnis]

They once sold an EP at some of their concerts entitled "Pet Sounds Sucks". Liked both Nixon and Is A Woman quite a bit.

[The Heartical Don]

They once sold an EP at some of their concerts entitled "Pet Sounds Sucks". Liked both Nixon and Is A Woman quite a bit.

Ooof... either it is tongue in cheek or else... (*looks up both Kurt Wagner's e-mail and an Exorcism Manual...)

[lance]

Lambchop, never heard of em. I guess thez would count.

Alright, so in ten years, Ill come back and ask about 2009--2019, as I will spend the next ten years acquiring the bands from the last ten years.

Luther, I apologize if my post came off as snide...though I have heard of Bob Dylan. That part was true.

[onkster]

Move to LA and see Jon Brion on Fridays.  And get his album, and all the boots you can find.

But I am getting frustrated at his lack of studio output for himself...