Funny enough, Pandora's got under similar artists to Flyleaf: Ashlee Simpson and Kelly Clarkson.


I thought of a couple new ones for me:
Charlotte Martin
Tina Arena
Daniel Rodriguez
Sarah Shannon
Blackmore's Night
Audra McDonald
Katie Todd
Ginny Owens
Giorgia Fumanti
Jimmy Wayne

It's mostly been (female) soloists lately. Oh, and I threw Loreena McKennitt and Culann's Hounds in my mix so I get some strong Irish music as well.:)

:eek: WTF???

And as I'm listening to Sara Bareilles more, I realize how much she sounds like Tristan Prettyman, not sure who I like more...

Isn't Ginny Owens a Christian singer who's blind...? Or am I thinking of someone else? If that's the lady I'm thinking of, she did a small live show for my company when I was in the Army and gave out free CD's when she left and we all got to meet her - the chaplain liked to get us Christian artists to see to lift our spirits a little bit since we were all the injured kids from Basic. Sorry, OT.

Pandora uses things like tonality, instruments used, sonority, genre influence, and rhythmic/melodic motifs to compare artists - not things like fanbase and whether they actually sound alike.

Yep, that's her.

Yeah, I remember reading that when it made my station and some of the things that came up, I was like, next. :rolleyes: Whatever, Pandora....

A friend of mine introduced me to her stuff back in August. I've been addicted ever since!

I heart the new (at least new to me!) Anna Nalick song, "In the Rough"!!!

Her whole cd is really great, and if you like her, try Leonna Ness, she's similar and really great, I love her song "chase"

American Bang
The Loft
Cage the Elephant
Eileen Rose
Sara Bareilles (she's the girl on the piano singing in the living room on that Rhapsody ad. the song is "Love Song.")

My new favorite obsession is Pela, their cd "anytown graffiti" is amazing ("lost to the lonesome" is a new fave)

also,
check out Andrew Bird.

Here's a link to NPR's all songs considered top cd's of the year, i'm already digging on a bunch of them.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=17144780

I've been listening to Ray LaMontagne and Bob Schneider a lot recently, thanks mainly to Pandora (though I did get Lamontagne's first cd a couple of weeks ago - awesome stuff).

Other than those guys, my 2007 has been dominated musically by:

The Polyphonic Spree
Silversun Pickups
Doves
Jack's Mannequin

I'm intrigued by the few Feist songs I've heard - some are phenomenal, some I find a little off. I have a similar feeling about The Dresden Dolls

Omaha radio really, really, really blows so I just heard "Ghost of you lingers" from Spoon for the first time yesterday...wow. May have to look into them more. Other bands, that are completely overlooked in Omaha include - The Kooks, Band of Horses, The Shins, Muse, The Fratellis, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, LCD Soundsystem, and pretty much any other "it" band of the year. For a town that's home to Saddle Creek Records (Bright Eyes et al), you'd think they'd be better at this, but they're not...

Bob Schneider is from Austin. Good guy. See him often around here.

totally forgot the name of the artist, but the song "Mushaboom" and the album is sooo mellow

*going to iTunes*

ETA: found her, her name is Feist... sooo good!!

Ritchie Blackmore has been around since the late 60's. His new incarnation is certainly different than Deep Purple. I haven't decided whether I think he is trying to be Led Zepellinish or not. I think he has probably always had this mystical bent but I'm just not sure about it.

Also AF, if you like poppish celtic music, try Clannad. They aren't new per se, but they don't get much airplay here at all. Their sister is Enya the new age singer and she also sings with them sometimes.