…….and now wondered why you never listened before?

The Hold Steady. Bought “Boys and Girls in America” on a whim in the HMV 2 for a tenner a couple of years ago and never listened to it until about 6 months ago. Fantastic stuff.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOFeaedv3Uc[/video]

Good band bit hit and miss for me but when they are good they are very good.

Great live, saw them in Bristol several years ago. Liking Yuck’s new single, Middle Sea, and a terrific new Texas-based band, Heartless Bastards, who were played on 6Music the other morning.

Kinoko Teikoku. Brilliant Japanese shoegaze type band.

I recently re-discovered the Stranglers. Loved everthing from the Hugh Cornwell era but what came after didn’t do it for me. I recently heard a couple of tracks from the 2012 album ‘Giants’ and on the strength of that bought both ‘Giants’ and the 2006 album ‘Suite 16’. Cracking albums and back to form in my opinion. Baz Warne, lead singer for the last 10 years has got it right without sounding identical to Hugh Cornwell.

In terms of new artists, London Grammar are pretty good in my opinion. They’ve got a good style and the lead singer is really quite good.

Chvrches are good too once you get past the stupid name.

I’m liking London Grammar too, they were album of the day on 6Music the other day, and I like what I heard. Another album to add to an ever increasing list…

Yeah, went straight to number 2 with their debut… Think the one I got was the last in town, so they must be doing well. Their live lounge was pretty good, might still be up on the R1 website.

Green Day, believe it or not. Saw their Reading set on TV and I was sufficiently impressed to buy American Idiot, Kerplunk & Dookie. more to follow.

Faith And The Muse. sort of goth, been around for a while & I think Tazzy has pointed me in their direction before now.

Goat

Another one for London grammar here. Really like their album

Kinoko Teikoku. Brilliant Japanese shoegaze type band.

a couple of their songs for your perusal!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JNwxSNNNY[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLLqGseXBTs[/video]

Just come across This is the Kit

Tame Impala

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes&feature=fvwrel[/video]

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKUD_OztRE[/video]

Portugal the man

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5x_YoweEg8[/video]

Duologue

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpAPvrQs4y8[/video]

clock opera

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaWj1mhx35Y[/video]

The Ramones:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYh1lRR1m6Y[/video]

but actually I only came to them via:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsVglmeJvw[/video]

Nick Cave:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k[/video]

And for a while now, the Jim Jones Revue:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r0MPHul_8A[/video]

And then more recently, some old Prodigy stuff, which you forget how interesting/new it was when it came out:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_XU6UT5oL0[/video]

Temperance Movement – Blus Rock

Soda Stereo – …. not sure but I like it!

Brothers Groove – Bluesy

Surviving August …..Rock

edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros

And a small band called Irie method, But my son’s in that..

Admiral Fallow. Great lyrics and proper musicians, saw them live without having heard them now watching them like a hawk for next gig.

Quantic
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.

Polly Scattergood

And then more recently, some old Prodigy stuff, which you forget how interesting/new it was when it came out:

nah just a bunch of PWEI wannabes.
I recently discovered Blaze Foley. Shame he’s dead.

The Go! Team – found them via Radcliffe & Maconie , and shortly after that they played their final gig and split up. Bum

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lT2Tq2rC9I[/video]

The Go! Team – found them via Radcliffe & Maconie , and shortly after that they played their final gig and split up. Bum

Saw them lotsa times, fantastic live band with a great party atmnosphere at gigs, especially the early ones.

New to me are Toy – who seem to have an interesting sound which combines 1980s jangle pop and krautrock…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrLOfu8FgH8[/video]

Oh yeah, there’s this lot, popped up on my iPod while out in the car today; bouncing up and down while driving not really approved of…
Big Black Delta:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWHkYfYo7E4&sns=em[/video]
(Possibly not quite safe for work song title). 😀

Plastikman. Spooky and minimal. Was listening to an old minidisc recorded off Mary Anne Hobbs R1 show when a Plastikman track came on. Don’t know why I didn’t buy any of his stuff before.

The Wedding Present.

25 years too late for George Best. Obviously I was around at the time and KNEW about them, but only recently thought WOW.

Triggered by my recent reading of John Peel’s autobiography/biography. I didn’t feel the same about the Bhundu Boys, mind 🙂

Nine Inch Nails. I would never have thought I would like them but the new album is quite electronic and minimal. Right up my street.

Wavves and Ty Segall’s new project Fuzz.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsLvljKISz8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xRq5f1kCU[/video]

Some more I’ve Shazamed recently:
Postiljonen – All That We Had is Lost
Waxahatches – Misery Over Dispute
Wendy Flower – Flaws
Johanna Gruesome – Sugarcrush
Lorde – Royals
Mélanie Pain – Black Widow
Son Of Stan – Corsica
Nadine Shah – Runaway
Devon Sproule & Mike O’Neill – Magic In The Panic
Katie Herzig – Closest I Get
Jackson And His Computerland – Dead Living Things
Lanterns On The Lake – Until The Colours Run
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
She Makes War – Delete
Robert John Godfrey – Mountains
Hella – Yubacore
No Age – Every Artist Needs A Tragedy
Angèle David-Guillou – And the Grass Was Singing
Colleen – The Weighing Of The Heart

That lot just goes back to the 1st of September, on 6Music from 8-3.30.