New music you are into?
 

I'm always on the hunt for music, new, old, something different, I always love it.
So if you come across something interesting, or want to share a new obsession, tell us about it!

i'll start:
I'm going through the music from Veronica Mars and getting songs, which is leading me to other things that my roommates and I have talked about the last few days.
this is more indie/rockish:

Ryan Adams "to be young" but really anything by him
i'm just discovering Elliott Smith (so amazing)
i've always loved Pete Yorn, so anything by him
"the way we get by" Spoon
"such great heights" the postal service
"annie" Vanessa Carlton (a sad song, but great)
"portions for foxes" rilo kiley
ANYTHING by Jimmy Eat World (one of my fave bands) esp "authority song"
i'm also diggin' on Emily King as of late
I put on my old standby of Ani Difranco her album Dilate is lifechanging, i swear!

I was not a fan of VC's poppy stuff (1,000 Miles), but then I heard her song "Half A Week Before the Winter" and I LOVE it.

I listen to Pandora.com all day long. It's awesome because after months of tweaking my main station plays all kinds of wonderful stuff from Frank Sinatra/Sarah Vaughn to Evanescence/Delta Goodram to Sissel/Nana Mouskouri to They Might Be Giants to the GoGos. One of my new favorites is Haley Westenra - she is amazing, especially for being so young.

I recently discovered Feist
Tegan and Sara
Colbie Caillat (sick of Bubbly though)
Damien Rice
Jem
Lily Allen
Richard Cheese (too funny!)
The Shins
and Zero 7

I went on a downloading frenzy the other night and the week before and added about 40 songs to my iPod. It was sweet :D Unfortunatley, the IT guys where I work have blocked mp3 sites, so no Pandora or Yahoo Music for me :( But I'm allowed my iPod!!

Alethia, can't go wrong with Ani. Seen her in concert 3 times and each time she totally kicked ass!

Pandora is internet radio, not mp3.

SthrnZeta,
I love Ani- i've seen her three times too and she is amazing each and every time!
I really like Tegan and Sara too, i have the cd that has Monsters on it (i forget the name of it)

btw AF I just downloaded haley westernra- she is good! :)

ya but a lot of times internet radio is blocked too, it was at my old job, I guess something with an applet but I could be making that up. :p

AF, you're right, but when I try to go to anything like that, it says something about mp3 content being blocked. No clue why or what that means in relation to how they blocked it though. BUT, they did just open up YouTube :D

LOVE them!! :)

Just as I read that her Dell'Amore Non Si Sa feat/Andrea Bocelli came up on Pandora.:)

Got it - it has to do with streaming content not being allowed. No fair.

Dispatch- who are we living for? and silent steeples these cds are both great
Guster I love them, but lost and gone forever is a fave
O.A.R. of courseeeee :)

It does affect your server speed, and if everyone at your company was running streaming content, your speed may be affected. Luckily, we had a server meant for about 500 computers running our 5 computers, so it doesn't make any difference at my work.;)

(in the tone of Napoloen Dynamite): Lucky!!!

Yeah, we got too many people surfing all day (real estate company, largest in town) and they're always talking about bandwith and server speed being slow. Sigh.

I used to listen to Pandora all of the time, then they moved all the office staff to WYSE terminals and now I can't stream anything without lots of delays and skipping. I want a real computer again!

Oh, and I really like the new Alison Krauss/Robert Plant album. Sounds like a wierd combo, but it's good.

Some of the stuff I've been listening to lately:

Tegan and Sara
Rilo Kiley
The Dresden Dolls
Scissor Sisters
Goldfrapp
O.A.R.
The Clarks
The Transplants
The Distillers
Kaiser Chiefs
Wolfmother
The Fratellis
Klaxons
The Bravery
Modest Mouse
Paramore
Megan McCauley
Feist
Social Distortion


ETA: I can't listen to music at work. :( It says "No Audio Device" on our computers. Funny thing is at my old job, we didn't have games (like solitaire and minesweep) but we could listen to music on our computers. Now at this job, we have the games but no sound. I keep saying I need to buy a new mp3 player so I can listen to music at work...might wait until after the new year to see if there's any after Christmas deals.

I like Paramore.

STEFY!
The Hives

Ooh, I forgot about Flyleaf. Reminiscent of Evanescense but not quite...

A friend got me hooked on Umphrey's McGee over the summer, and Drive By Truckers. I'm also liking Feist and Imogen Heap. I've also been hitting my parent's jazz collection quite a bit. Thelonius Monk is incredible.

Your friend has good taste. I've got quite a few similar bands that you may like.

I love modest mouse, feist, goldfrapp, scissor sisters!
i've heard a little of the rest of them but I def want to check them out more

not going to lie...I'm in love with the new Maroon 5 cd :)

Love Song by Sara Bareilles has been one of my favorites for a few months now

Artists who have put stuff out this year that I like:

Kate Nash,
Magnetic Fields,
Why?,
Crystal Castles,
Dan Deacon,
Pelle Carlberg,
The Go Find,
Calvin Harris,
Destroyer,
The Radio Dept.,
Saturday Looks Good to Me,
Ezra Furman,
Half-Handed Cloud,
The National,
The Weakerthans, and
Battles

I've posted my top 10 albums of the year HERE

Just discovered Sara Bareilles from that comercial she's in.. and downloaded a crapload of her songs. :D

I do have a new obsession. She's still pretty underground (for now)...

Janelle Monae! Going to see her live this weekend!


I'm also listening to a lot of both Jay-Z and Alicia Keys new album.

I might listen, but I don't watch vids anymore. I used to be a big MTV/BET fan, but stopped caring after I was like 16. Ludacris came to my school freshman year of college and, even though I figured it out when he started performing a song I knew, everyone teased me because I didn't know who he was all through the first song because I didn't recognize his face. :)

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.")