This has been a mammoth undertaking, which has occupied way too much of my life. I hope you enjoy it.
Happy New Year, Everybody!
It is now so easy and inexpensive to record and distribute music that far too many albums are released each week for anyone to hear them all. I thought if I organized and listed all the bands with good 2011 albums I’ve heard this year it might be helpful to others.
My list differs from other year-end lists in three important ways:
Europe – Since the internet gives everyone around the world instant access to all albums released anywhere, it makes no sense for these other lists to ignore albums released in Europe but not the U.S. Their probable justification, that there is no point listening to and recommending albums that are not available here, is nonsensical and silly. Albums released only in Europe are instantly available for us to hear, and to buy as downloads, just like American releases. Since I haven’t discriminated against or ignored Europe-only releases, this list includes a lot of great music missing from other year-end lists.
Finding Quality Via Quantity – Most year-end lists include a limited number of albums. Does anyone seriously think there are only a few albums released each year that are worth recommending and hearing? I’ve attempted to include every good album released this year, not just an inherently arbitrary Best Of. You might conclude from scanning this list that I heard every indie album released. Didn’t happen – not even close. In 2011 I proved conclusively, once again, that no one can hear everything that comes out.
I tried to listen to every 2011 album that got substantial press attention. As a result, any well-known album not listed below is likely missing because I don’t think it’s worth your time. Examples of recent artists that released poor 2011 albums include Aethenor (Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O]]]), Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter), Susan Boyle, Peter Broderick (of Efterklang), Billy Ray Cyrus, Dananananaykroyd, Chris ‘Daughtry’, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Brian Eno, Evanescence, ‘Rihanna’ Fenty, Gorillaz (Damon Albarn of Blur), Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham, Jennifer Hudson, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, ‘Beyonce’ Knowles, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta), Miranda Lambert, The Lonely Island (Samberg and Schaeffer of Saturday Night Live), Laura Marling, Mastodon, Miracle Fortress, Jake Owen, Pistol Annies (with Miranda Lambert), Puddle Of Mudd (covers of 70s classics), Jill Scott, She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward), Sixx:AM (for both This Is Gonna Hurt and 7), The Streets (Mike Skinner), Taylor Swift, Tasha Taylor (daughter of Johnny), Ultraviolent Sound (Sarah Hudson, sister of actress Kate), Butch Walker, Weird Al Yankovic. The common thread among many of these weak albums is their one-dimensionality, sounding the same throughout – how boring is that? In some cases you wonder whether the artist fell asleep in the studio, or suffered from “obsessive-compulsive repetitious disorder”.
Twentieth-Century Coverage – Other year-end lists copy each other so much they generally include the same albums by the same new artists, and completely ignore albums by artists who’ve been around a while. Since I don’t ignore older artists (not trusting folks over 30 is such a dated, 60s idea), this list includes categories for artists who made their mark in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, along with categories for well-known 90s artists, including those who released poor albums this year. Maybe those other lists only care about New Bands That Self-Proclaimed Trendsetters Decide Are Cool.
So, onward to my list of all artists that released 2011 albums worth hearing:
1. Given how difficult it is to keep all this information and music straight, I haven’t even attempted to deal with the names of the albums. Thus, listed below is just the band name, without the album title. The internet of course makes it easy to discover the name of, and listen to, any of these 2011 albums.
2. None of these albums are included because of just one song. I’ve listened to each album at least twice all the way through (well, maybe not all the poor albums listed at the end), and would gladly listen to each again in the future.
3. When at least two band members release solo albums or side projects, I’ve listed them in a separate category named for the band, which also lists the band’s own album if applicable. I’ve also listed all-stars who released good albums with more than one band this year.
The bands in each category are listed in alphabetical order. We begin with my Top 10 albums of the year, and at the bottom is the full list of my choices as the best albums of the year, along with some awards. I hope you enjoy reading this, expanding your musical horizons, and discovering some great new stuff!
Fred’s 2011 Top 10 Albums
The Bent Moustache
The Black Keys
James Blake (for Enough Thunder)
The Cars
Cowboy Junkies (for Sing In My Meadow)
The Fall
The Field
Head Of Wantastiquet
I H8 Camera
Kaiser Chiefs
Las Kellies
LCD Soundsystem (live)
Lydia Lunch
Magazine
Tu Fawning
Tom Waits
England
About Group (includes guys from Hot Chip and Spiritualized)
Amplifier – prog-rock
Art Brut
Arctic Monkeys
Bombay Bicycle Club
The Boxer Rebellion
Coldplay
Hollie Cook (daughter of Paul, Sex Pistols drummer) – solo – ska
The Crookes
Dark Captain
Dave I.D. – solo – industrial
DRC Music (Damon Albarn of Blur) – cross-cultural (Congo)
The Duke Spirit
Elbow
Esben And The Witch (for both Violet Cries and )
Florence (Welch) & The Machine
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Fujiya & Miyagi
Guillemots
Hard-Fi
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
The Kooks
Lanterns On The Lake
The Leisure Society
Male Bonding
Metronomy
Middleman
The New Mastersounds – funk
Noah And The Whale
One Sixth Of Tommy
Pete And The Pirates
The Pigeon Detectives
The Rifles
Ross And The Wrongens
The Sand Band
Scars On 45
Slow Club
Tom ‘Smith’ (of Editors) & Andy ‘Burrows’ (of Razorlight)
The Travelling Band
White Belt Yellow Tag
The Wombats
Wu Lyf (aka World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation)
Gabby Young And Other Animals
Blackmore’s Night
Blackmore’s Night (Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow)
Candice Night (wife of Ritchie) – female solo
Gomez
Gomez
Ben Ottewell – solo
The Horrors
Cat’s Eyes (Faris Badwan of The Horrors)
The Horrors
Oasis
Beady Eye (5 guys from Oasis, including Liam, but not Noel)
High Flying Birds (with Noel)
65daysofstatic – (sic)
Polinski (Paul Wolinski) – solo
65daysofstatic (for both Heavy Sky and Silent Running) – experimental
The Verve
Richard Ashcroft
Erland & The Carnival (Simon Tong)
England Baroque Chamber Pop
James Blake (for 3 albums – for both Enough Thunder, Love What Happened Here, and self-titled)
The Irrepressibles
Wild Beasts
England Post-Punk
Airship
British Sea Power
The Chapman Family
S.C.U.M. (not the same-named Norway metal band)
Still Corners
The Vaccines
Wet Paint
White Lies
Yuck (2 guys ex-Cajun Dance Party)
England Psychedelic Rock
Malachai
The Unthanks
England Blues Rock
Anna Calvi – female solo
Dennis Hopper Choppers (Ben Nicholls) – solo
Hokie Joint
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (the Durham siblings)
Hugh Laurie (the actor) – solo
England Psych-Folk
Codes In The Clouds (sounds like Explosions In The Sky)
James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg (U.S.) (acoustic guitar)
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou (married)
The Sand Band
Smoke Fairies (sounds like Annie Haslam of Renaissance)
Trembling Bells (electric medieval/Renaissance)
England Experimental
Vicki Barnett (mash-ups of pop and rock hits, including The Doors and Sound Of Music) – female solo
Duke Garwood – solo
Maybeshewill (sic)
Passarella Death Squad
Planningtorock (sic) (Janine Rostron) – female solo
Vessels
Zum Zum Egui
England Garage Rock
The Cubical (sic) (sounds like Captain Beefheart channeling Tom Waits)
Headcat (Lemmy Kilmister/Motorhead and Slim Jim Phantom/Stray Cats) (covers of 50s/60s rockers)
The Jim Jones Revue (Jim Jones of Thee Hypnotics)
Little Barrie
Milk Maid
Thee Spivs (channeling every single England late-70s punk band)
England Hard Rock
The King Blues
The Suzukis
England Soul
‘Adele’ Atkins – female solo
The Bongolian (Nasser Bouzida) – solo
Nostalgia 77 (Ben Lambin) – solo
Smoove & (John) Turrell
England Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Bibio (Stephen Wilkinson) – solo
Crystal Fighters
Dutch Uncles
Emalkay (Martin Knowles) – solo
Friendly Fires
The Go! Team
Is Tropical
Koan Sound
Ladytron
Mickey Moonlight (Mike Silver) – solo
Mrs. Jynx (Hannah Davidson) – female solo
Kele ‘Okereke’ (of Bloc Party) – solo
SBTRKT (Aaron Jerome) – solo
Scroobius Pip (David Meads) – solo
Stateless
Summer Camp
Teeth
Tropics (Chris Ward) (not one of the same-named England or U.S. bands) – solo
Chad Valley (Hugo Manuel) – solo
Zomby – solo
England Male Solo
Jon Allen
James Blackshaw (acoustic guitar)
Blanck Mass (Ben Power of F**k Buttons) – solo
Blood Orange (Devonte Hynes, aka Lightspeed Champiom)
Butcher The Bar (Joel Nicholson)
Iain Chambers (acoustic guitar)
Baxter Dury (son of Ian)
Fink (Fin Greenall)
The Glorious (Christopher Wicks, founder of fashion house English Laundry)
Miles Kane (of The Last Shadow Puppets)
Alexi Murdoch
Puzzle Muteson
RKC (aka Roses Kings Castles) (Adam Ficek of Babyshambles)
Edward Rogers
Ed Sheeran
Spectrals (Louis Jones)
Alex Turner (of Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets)
Frank Turner
‘Tom Vek’ Vernon-Kell
James Walbourne
Mitch Winehouse (Amy’s father) (Sinatra-type standards)
Patrick Wolf (for both Brumalia and Lupercalia)
England Female Solo
Alessi’s Ark (Alessi Laurent-Marke)
Mechanical Bride (Lauren Doss)
Hannah Peel
Scotland
Admiral Fallow
Conquering Animal Sound
Falloch – prog-metal
Found
Frightened Rabbit
The Fruit Tree Foundation (folks from The Delgados, Frightened Rabbit, and The Twilight Sad)
Jonny (2 guys from Teenage Fanclub and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci)
King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) (for both Diamond Mine, with Jon Hopkins, and Thrawl)
Sons & Daughters
Sparrow And The Workshop
Veronica Falls
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat (of Arab Strap)
Scotland Post-Punk
Glasvegas
Penguins Kill Polar Bears
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Wales
The Joy Formidable
Los Campesinos!
The Loves (not one of the same-named France synth or 60s U.S. psychedelic rock bands)
Northern Ireland
Cashier No. 9
The Japanese Popstars – synth
Ireland
Adebisi Shank – experimental
And So I watch You From Afar – experimental
Bell X1 – synth
Julie Feeney – female solo
Fight Like Apes
Ireland Male Solo
James McMorrow
Fionn Regan
Netherlands
Alamo Race Track
Are You A Lion
Apes In The Orange Grove
The Black Atlantic
La Boutique Fantastique
Clossa
Cuban Heels (not one of the same-named Scotland 80s or England bands)
De Staat
The Devil’s Blood – prog-metal
Dyzack (Erik Hofland) – solo – blues rock
Early Adopters
Tommy Ebben And The Small Town Villains
Charles Frail – solo – baroque chamber pop
Gem
Sven Hammond Soul – soul music
Happy Camper (not one of the same-named Indiana or Las Vegas bands)
Henk (Koorn) & Melle (De Boer)
I Am Oak (Thijs Kuijken) (for both Oasem and Wavves) – solo – psych-folk
Junior Eats Alone
Kaizers Orchestra
King Jack (not the same-named England band)
Krach (not the same-named Germany band)
Llanois
The May Bees (channeling Guided By Voices)
Me & Stupid
Milligram Retreat
Mindpark
M-Jo & The Jesus Herb
Moi, Le Voisin (aka Me, The Neighbor)
Neon Rainbows
Novack
Okieson
Palio Superspeed Donkey
The Phantom Four & The Arguido
The Phoenix Foundation
Ponoka
Racoon (sic) (not the same-named Canada band)
Roosbeef
Templo Diez
Tika
Joep Van Son & Jelle Van Veenan
Vence
Netherlands Post-Punk
The Bent Moustache (channeling The Fall and My Bloody Valentine)
Eins Zwei Orchestra
Houses (not the same-named Denver band)
The Medics (not the same-named Australia band)
Pioneers Of Love
Rats On Rafts
Stairs To Nowhere
Netherlands Psychedelic-Rock
Dewolff
Sungrazer
Netherlands Alt-Country
Dusty Stray
Lorrainville
Netherlands Experimental
Aestrid (Bo Menning) – solo
Dead Neanderthals (sax and drums, similar to Morphine)
Knalpot
Spoelstra (Jeroen Warntjes) – solo
We Killed Bambi
Yesterday’s Men
Netherlands Cross-Cultural
Jungle By Night – Nigeria jazz
Mdungu – Gambia
TenTemPies – Mexico
Netherlands Garage Rock
The Galactic Lo-Fi Orchestra
Woody & Paul
Netherlands Hard Rock
All On Black
And So I Watch You From Afar
Black Bottle Riot
BlackboxRed (sic)
Blues Brother Castro
Death Letters (sounds like At The Drive-In)
The Fudge
Lost Bear
The Maydays (not the same-named Wales band)
Tank86
Vanderbuyst
The Windowsill
Netherlands Prog-Rock
Atlantis (Gilson Heitinga)
Gingerpig
Knight Area
Netherlands Industrial
Aux Raus
Wormskull
Netherlands Funk
Bastian
The Jig
Mungolian Jetset
Relax
Netherlands Reggae
Chef’Special
Damaru – solo
Def P & Beatbusters
Jah6
Joggo (Jurgen Seedorf, brother of world-class soccer player Clarence) – solo
Ziggy Recado – solo
Splendid (not the same-named Australia band with Angie Hart of Frente!)
The Upsessions
Netherlands Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Classic Brothers
Gluid (Bram Van Den Oever) – solo
Jesus And The Christians
Kraak & Smaak
Lola Kite
Sander Kleinenberg – solo
Rimer London – solo
Mason
Fata ‘El Morgana’ Moustache
Nobody Beats The Drum
Pitto (Geurt Kersjes) – solo
Tech Chic Design (Anduo Lucia) – solo
Netherlands Male Solo
Awkward I (Djurre DeHaan)
Benny Sings (Tim Berkestijn)
Johan Borger
Bart Constant
Dazzled Kid (Tjeerd Bomhof of Voicst)
Marten De Paepe
Dotan
Niels ‘Duffhues’
Gerhardt
Ro Halfhide
Wouter Hamel
Ralph De Jongh And Crazy Hearts (sounds like mid-70s M.Jagger)
Tim Knol
‘Harold K’ Limburg
Andre Manuel
Case Mayfield
Jelle ‘Paulusma’ (not the same-named England female solo singer)
Joep Pelt (covers done as Americana)
Roy Santiago
Spinvis (Erik De Jong)
Meindart Talma
Florian Wolff
Yoshimi (Niet Hilkman)
Netherlands Female Solo
Linda Arkana
‘Eefje’ De Visser
Pien Feith
Gram (Marg Van Eenbergen)
iET (Lisa Van Viegan)
Marike Jager
Aafke Romeijn
Gwen ‘G.T. Thomas’
‘Chagal’ Van Den Berg
Sonja Van Hamel
Belgium
Amtorski
Arsenal
Birds That Change Colour
Black Box Revelation – garage rock
A Brand
Bunny Zen & The Syphilis Madmen
Cape Coast Radio
Das Pop
The Future Dead
Intergalactic Lovers
Low Vertical
Suarez (not one of the same-named Argentina or U.S. bands)
You Raskal You
Yuku
Zita Swoon Group
Belgium Post-Punk
Customs
Sunday Bell Ringers
Belgium Experimental
I H8 Camera
Sleeping Dog
Belgium Cross-Cultural
Antwerp Gypsy-Ska Orchestra (gypsy songs played as ska)
Hoquets – Congo
Belgium Male Solo
The Bony King of Nowhere (Bram Van Parys)
Gotye (Wouter De Backer)
Tom Pintens
Spencer The Rover (Koen Renders)
Norway
Kakkmaddafakka
The Megaphonic Thrift
Pagan’s Mind – prog-metal
Razida
Mathias Stubo – solo – synth
Norway Male Solo
‘Moddi’ Knotsen
Sondre Lerche
Norway Female Solo
Ane Brun
Jenny Hva
Rebeka Karijord
Sweden
The Amazing
Bye Bye Bicycle
Friska Viljor
Fullforce – metal
Golden Kanine
Karmakanic
Korallreven
Niki & The Dove
Peter Bjorn And John
The Skull Defekts – post-punk
Those Dancing Days – garage
Thus: Owls
Sweden Synth
The Field (Alex Willner) – solo
I Break Horses
Little Dragon (4 ex-members of Gorillaz)
Pallers
Sweden Male Solo
Christian Kjellvander
Jens Lekman
Loney Dear (Emil Svenangen)
Sweden Female Solo
‘Lykke Li’ Zachrisson
Sakert! (Annika Norlin)
Signe Tollefsen
Finland
Le Corps Mince De Francais
Stratovarius
Timo Tolkki – solo
Vladislav Delay Quartet (Sasu Ripatti) – solo – industrial (similar to Cabaret Voltaire/Throbbing Gristle)
Denmark
Maggie Bjorklund – female solo – alt-country
Les Chicharrons – funk
Dad Rocks! (Snaevar Albertsson) – solo – psych-folk
Darkness Falls
Figurines (not the same-named band that later became Ben Gibbard’s side project The Postal Service)
Murder (not the same-named U.S. band)
The Raveonettes – post-punk
Treefight For Sunlight (for both A Collection of Vibrations For Your Skull and self-titled)
When Saints Go Machine – baroque chamber pop
Denmark Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Keith Canisius – solo
Vinnie Who (Niels Hansen) – solo
Who Made Who
Iceland
Apparat Organ Quartet
Iceage (not the same-named U.S. prog-rock band)
Ourlives (sic)
‘Soley’ Stefensdottir (of Seabear) – female solo
Iceland Experimental
Amiina
Iceland Male Solo
Olafur Arnolds – classical
Sin Fang Bous (Sindri Sigfusson)
France
The Do
The Dukes (not one of the same-named New Zealand or U.S. 70s or current bands) – hard rock
Herman Dune
Housse De Racket
Pneu – experimental
France Cross-Cultural
Sergent Garcia (Cuba)
Stranded Horse (Yann Tambour) – solo – cross-cultural (Mali)
France Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Agoria (Sebastien Davand) – solo
Black Devil Disco Club
Cosmos 70
Curry (Thomas Pilem) & Coco (Sylvain Przybylski)
Discodeine
Dye (Juan De Guillebon) – solo
Justice
M83 (Anthony Gonzales) – solo
The Shoes (not the same-named 70s U.S. Band)
Yelle
Yuksek (Pierre-Alexandre Busson) – solo
France Female Solo
Charlotte Gainsbourg
My Bee’s Garden (Melody Prochet)
Maia Vidal
Zaz (Isabelle Geffroy)
Germany
Bodi Bill
Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – synth
Hundreds
Long Distance Calling – prog-rock
V8 Wankers – hard rock
Germany Experimental
Niobe (Yvonne Cornelius) – female solo
Super Reverb
Germany Classical
Nils Frahm (for 3 albums – Felt, 7 Fingers with Anne Muller, and as Oliveray)
Hauschke (Volker Bertelmann) – solo
Oliveray (Nils Frahm and Peter Broderick)
Germany Male Solo
Jonas David
Finn (Patrick Zimmer)
Norman Palm
Spain
Mercedes Peon – female solo
Portugal
Buraka Son Sistema – synth
Switzerland
Dimlite (Dimitri Grimm) – solo – synth
The Pussywarmers – experimental
Italy
Aucan – synth
A Classic Education
Forty Winks
Waines – garage rock
Italy Male Solo
Banjo Or Freakout (Alessio Natalizia)
Alberto Rigoni
Greece
Keep Shelly In Athens – synth
Scar Of The Sun – prog-metal
Central Europe
Killed By 9V Batteries (Austria) – post-punk
Armand Margjeka (Albania) – solo
Ana Popovic (Serbia) – female solo – blues-rock
Alina Simone (Ukraine) – female solo
Taraf De Haidouks (Romania) & Kocani Orkestar (Macedonia) – cross-cultural (gypsy)
Yonderboi (Laszlo Fogarasi) (Hungary) – solo – synth
Czech Republic
Marketa Irglova (of Swell Season and the movie Once, both with Glen Hansard of The Frames) – solo
Toh Kay (Tomas Kalnoky) – solo
Lebanon
Morphosis (Rabih Beaini) (not the same-named 90s Ireland death metal band) – solo – synth
Israel
J.Viewz (Jonathan Dagan) – solo – synth
‘Keran Ann’ Zeidel – female solo
Africa
Asa (Bukola Ekmide) (Nigeria) – female solo
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo (Benin)
Mali
Fatoumata Diawara – female solo
Tinariwen
South Africa
Dear Reader
Chris Letcher – solo
MartyParty (Marty Folb) – solo – synth
The Parlotones (channeling The Killers)
Seether – hard rock
Japan
World’s End Girlfriend (Katsuhiko Maeda) – solo – experimental
China
The Fever Machine – hard rock
Malaysia
Zee Avi – female solo
Australia
Architecture In Helsinki
Boy & Bear
Fallon Cush
Hungry Kids Of Hungary
Little Red
Australia Post-Punk
Canyons (not either of the same-named U.S. bands from D.C. or L.A.)
Grand Atlantic
The Jezabels
Australia Psych-Folk
Cloud Control
The Middle East
Australia Garage Rock
Bleeding Knees Club
The UV Race
Australia Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Cut Copy
Miami Horror
Australia Male Solo
Liam Finn (son of Neil of Crowded House)
Scott Matthews
Australia Female Solo
Belle
Julia Stone
New Zealand
Bachelorette
Cut Off Your Hands
Indicator Dogs – hard rock
The Naked And Famous
Orchestra Of Spheres – experimental
Pyjama Club (Neil Finn of Crowded House, with wife Sharon)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Ruban Nielsen) – garage rock – solo
South America
Algodon Egipcio (“Egyptian Cotton”) (Ezequiel Bertho) (Venezuela) – solo – synth
Las Kellies (channeling The Au Pairs and Delta 5) (Argentina) – post-punk
Brazil
CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy, aka Tired Of Being Sexy) – synth
Digitaldubs – reggae
The Lilies (Sergio Dias of Os Mutantes, along with Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family)
Caribbean
Davila666 – garage rock (Puerto Rico)
Juakali – solo – reggae (Trinidad)
Gaby Moreno – female solo (Guatemala)
Jamaica Reggae
Daniel Chino McGregor – solo
Superheavy (Damian Marley, with Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart 0f The Eurythmics)
Mexico
-+ – (RitualZ) – solo – synth
The Butcherettes – garage rock
Canada
Barn Burner – hard rock
Bedouin Soundclash
The Darcys
The Dears
Handsome Furs
The Lions (not one of the same-named bands around the globe)
The Luyas
Memoryhouse
Rah Rah
Stars
Tasseomancy (aka reading tea-leaves)
The Weeknd (sic) (Abel Tesfaye) – solo – soul
Whitehorse (includes Luke Doucet) (not the 70s U.S. band with Motley Crue’s Mick Mars) – alt-country
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Esmerine (Bruce Cawdron, with Beckie Foon of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra)
Efrim Menuck (of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra)
The New Pornographers
Kathryn Calder – female solo
Destroyer (Dan Bejar)
Canada Post-Punk
Little Girls
No Joy
Odonis Odonis
Canada Southern Rock
Redlight King (Mark Kasperczyk) – solo
The Sheepdogs (for both Five Easy Pieces and Learn & Burn)
Canada Psych-Folk
Siskiyou (2 guys from Great Lake Swimmers)
Timber Timbre
Canada Experimental
Braids
Dirty Beaches (Alex Hungtai) – solo
Little Scream (Laurel Sprengelmeyer) – female solo
Canada Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Austra
Azari & III
Jef Barbara – solo
The Birthday Massacre
Tim Hecker – solo
Junior Boys
Kidstreet
Melleefresh (Melenny Brown) Vs Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman)
Moonface (Spencer Krug of Frog Eyes, Wolf Parade, and Sunset Rubdown) – solo
New Look
Parallels (Cameron Findlay, ex-Crystal Castles)
Rustie (Russell Whyte) (not the same-named 90s Canada indie band) – solo
San Sebastian
Teen Daze (Jamison) – solo
Young Galaxy
Canada Male Solo
City And Colour (Dallas Green of Alexisonfire)
Diamond Rings (John O’Regan)
Ensemble (Olivier Alary)
Dan Mangan
Neverending White Lights (Daniel Victor)
Sandro Perri
Doug Tielli – baroque chamber pop
Chad VanGaalen
Canada Female Solo
Louise Burns
Leslie ‘Feist’
Grimes (Claire Boucher)
Jenn Mierau
Neema
Samantha Savage Smith
Athens, GA
Black Tusk (Savannah, GA) – hard rock
Passafire (Savannah) – reggae
Drive-By Truckers – southern rock
Efren – psych-folk
Little Tybee (Savannah)
Modern Skirts
Athens Alt-Country
Craig Campbell (Lyons, GA) – solo
Athens Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Reptar
Washed Out (Ernest Greene of Macon, GA) – solo
Atlanta
Black Lips – garage rock
Brent Hinds (of Mastodon) (for 2 solo albums, one garage rock, one psycho-billy like The Cramps)
Van Hunt – solo – funk
Little Horn
Ponderosa – southern rock
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun – post-punk
Young Antiques – hard rock
U.S. Indie
Aeroplane Pageant
Alpine White
AM & Shawn Lee
Arbouretum
Army Navy
Baby Tenders
Bear & Moose
Beirut
Benjy Davis Project
Big Talk (Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers)
Big Troubles
Bird By Bird
The Black Rabbits
Blitzen Trapper
Bobby
Bomb The Music Industry!
Boston Spaceships (Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices)
Brown Recluse
The Builders And The Butchers
Built Like Alaska
Cage The Elephant
Caged Animals
Caveman
Chappo
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Cold War Kids
The Color Bars
John Craig & The Weekend
Cuckoo Chaos
Danger Mouse (Brian Burton of Gnarls Barkley) & Daniele Luppi (Italy composer)
The Dangerous Summer
Dawes
The Dead Trees
Dear Lions (for both Lying To My Lies and self-titled)
Death Songs
The Decemberists (for both The King Is Dead and Long Live The King)
Devotchka
D & M
The Dodos
Dom (similar to Black Kids)
The Donkeys
The Drums
The Duke & The King (Simon Felice of The Felice Brothers)
Duwende (a cappella Michael Jackson covers)
EDM (aka Early Day Miners)
Empress Hotel
Epigene
Eulogies
Fair Ohs
The Felice Brothers
Forest Fire
Fruit Bats
Ganglians
Gardens & Villa
Gem Club
Girls
Gold Beach
Goldenboy
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves
The Great Book Of John
The Great Unknown
Grooms
Ed Hale And The Transference
Halloween, Alaska
The Head And TheHeart
Holiday Shores
Hospital Ships
Hotel Lights (Darren Jessee of Ben Folds Five)
Icebird
Ingram Hill
Jacuzzi Boys
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground
Stephen Kellogg And The Sixers
King’s Daughters & Sons
Knights On Earth
Loch Lomond
The London Souls
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks
Man Man
Mannequin Man
Milagres
The Miracals
Miracles Of Modern Science
Mr. Heavenly (guys from Islands, Man Man, and Modest Mouse)
Mutemath
Nightmare & The Cat (2 sons of Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics and Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama)
North Mississippi Allstars
Nurses (from Portland, OR, not the same-named Indiana band)
Oh No Oh My
Okkervil River
1, 2, 3
Other Lives
Oy Vey
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Parts & Labor
Peaking Lights
People Get Ready
Pepper Rabbit
Poison Control Center
Portugal. The Man
Prophets & Kings
Real Estate
The Red Button
Release The Sunbird (Zach Schwartz of Rogue Wave)
Right On Dynamite
Robbers On High Street
Royal Bangs
Scattered Pony
Sea Lions
Seafarer
Seapony
The Silent Comedy
The 65’s
Skeletons (not the same-named 90s U.S. band)
Skysaw (Jimmy Chamberlin of Smashing Pumpkins)
Smith Westerns
Spanish Prisoners
The Stepkids
Strange Boys
Surfer Blood
Sunbears!
Sundress
The Strokes
Tapes ‘n Tapes
TFDI
Tiny Animals
Toy Bombs
The Trophy Fire
TV On The Radio
The Twilight Singers (Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs)
Typhoon (not the same-named Korea rap band)
Vanaprasta
Vetiver
The Wandas
The War On Drugs
We Are Augustines
The Whiskey Saints
White Denim
Peter Wolf Crier
Yellow Ostrich
Yellowbirds (not the same-named Netherlands band)
Young Buffalo
Young The Giant
U.S. Indie – Female Vocals
Asobi Seksu
The Bandana Splits (doo-wop)
The Belle Brigade
Bird Of Youth
Brave Irene (Rose Melburg of The Softies)
Callers
Cliffie Swans
Cults
Dark Dark Dark
Ear Pwr
Family Of The Year
Givers
Mimi Goeze & Ben Neill (song cycle about myth of Persephone)
Grouplove
If By Yes (Petra Haden, ex-The Decemberists, and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto)
The Kills (Alison Mosshart of Dead Weather)
Leftover Cuties
Little Anchor
The Moor (not one of the same-named Sweden 90s or U.S. death metal bands)
‘Thao’ Nguyen (of Get Down Stay Down) & ‘Mirah’ Zeitlyn
Pixikill
Point Venture, WA
Ra Ra Riot
Arrica Rose & The ..’s
Secret Cities
Sick Of Sarah
Sleeper Agent
Tennis
Times New Viking
Twin Sister
Widowspeak (channeling Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star)
Wye Oak
The Dear Hunter (sic)
The Dear Hunter
Mercies (Sammy Dent and Josh Rheault) – psych-folk
The Fiery Furnaces
Eleanor Friedberger – solo
Matthew Friedberger (of his 5 2011 solo albums, Meet Me In Miramas, the guitar one) – solo
The Flatlanders
Joe Ely – solo
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – solo – alt-country
The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem (classic rock covers)
The Horrible Crowes (Brian Fallon)
Queens Of The Stone Age
‘Alain Johannes’ Michulski (also of Them Crooked Vultures) – solo
Mini Mansions (Michael Shuman of Queens Of The Stone Age)
Ra Ra Riot
Ra Ra Riot
Mathieu Santos – solo
Sonny & The Sunsets
Earth Girl Helen Brown (Sonny Smith) – garage rock
Sonny & The Sunsets – garage rock
Vivian Girls
The Babies (not the same-named 70s U.S. band) (Cassie Ramone, with Kevin Morby of Woods)
La Sera (Katy Goodman)
Vivian Girls
Wooden Shjips
Moon Duo (Ripley Johnson) – psychedelic rock
Wooden Shjips – psychedelic rock
X
Exene Cervenka – female solo
John Doe – solo – alt-country
U.S. Baroque Chamber Pop
Active Child (Pat Grossi) – solo
Baby Dee – solo
Sam Mickens (of Xiu Xiu) – solo
U.S. Post-Punk
Almost Free
Brown Shoe
Cold Cave (Wesley Eisley) – solo
Colourmusic
Cymbals Eat Guitars
The Drift
Edelweiss (not the same-named 80s Austria synth band)
John Mark McMillan – solo
Mi Ami
Moving Units
Ringo Deathstarr
She Wants Revenge
Silversun Pickups
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
Transfer (from San Diego, not the same-named Detroit band)
TV Ghost
Ume
Wild Flag (Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney)
With Lions
You Can Be A Wesley
U.S. Psychedelic Rock
Asteroid #4
Cave
Crystal Stilts (for both In Love With Oblivian and Radiant Door)
DIsappears
Head Of Wantastiquet (Paul Labrecque of Sunburned Hand Of The Man) – solo
Howlin Rain
The Living Kills
Mwahaha
Psychic Ills
True Widow
Tu Fawning
USX (aka U.S. Christmas)
Wet Hair
White Hills
U.S. Alt-Country
Ariel Abshire – female solo
Scotty Alan
Alana Amram And The Rough Gems (covers of 60s folk singer Vince Martin)
Frankie Ballard – solo
Jody Booth – solo
Mary Bragg – female solo
Jeff Bridges (the actor)
The Burritos
Cabin Dogs
Grayson Capps – solo
Hayes Carll
Dead Man Winter
Robert Ellis – solo
Joe Firstman
Girls Guns And Glory
Have Gun Will Travel
Hiss Golden Messenger (M.C. Taylor) (for both From Country Hai Cotton and Poor Moon) – solo
Drew Holcomb And The Neighbors – solo
Lizzie Huffman – solo
Brandon James – solo
Eilen Jewell – female solo
Kort (Kurt Wagner of Lambchop and Cortney Tidwell)
Gill Landry (of Old Crow Medicine Show)
Loves It!
The Low Anthem
Mandarin Orange
Jessica Lea Mayfield – female solo
Middle Brother (Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes and John McCauley of Deer Tick)
My Cousin, The Emperor
Josh T. Pearson
Sons Of Fathers
Two Cent Revival (Matt Jones) – solo
2/3 Goat
Nick Verzosa & The Noble Vision
Abigail Washburn – female solo
Shayna (Zaid) & The Catch
U.S. Blues Rock
McKnight & Bogdal
‘Seasick Steve’ Wold – solo
U.S. Southern Rock
Michael Grimm – solo
Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band (with Jai Johanny Johansen of Allman Brothers)
The White Buffalo (Jake Smith) – solo
U.S. Psych-Folk
Akron/Family
The Antlers
BigBee Of The Whitetree
The Black Swans
Blessed Feathers
Bon Iver
The Cave Singers
The Civil Wars
The David Wax Museum
Dolorean (not the same-named Spain band)
Elephant Revival
Fleet Foxes
Grey Reverend (L.D. Brown) – solo
Joy Kills Sorrow
The Loom
The Lower 48
Megafaun
The Milk Carton Kids
Motopony
The Mountain Goats
Mike ‘Musikanto’ – solo
O’Death
The Poison Tree (Steve Salett) – solo
Tyler Ramsey (of Band Of Horses) – solo
Rue Royale
Sassparilla
Seryn
Matt (Sever) The Electrician – solo
Thousands
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Woods
Woodsmen
U.S. Experimental
Barn Owl (from San Francisco, not the same-named Iowa band)
Juliana Barwick
Battles
Book Of Knots
Circuit Des Yeux (Haley Fohr) – female solo
Collections Of Colonies Of Bees
The Dead Rider (similar to Mr. Bungle)
Dos (Mike Watt of Minutemen and Kira Roesller of Black Flag) (quiet bass music)
Dub Trio
Evangelista (Carla Bozulich) – female solo
Explosions In The Sky
Gang Gang Dance
Grails
Hella
How To Dress Well (Tom Krell) – solo
LA Vampires (Amanda Brown) – female solo
Lotus
David Lynch (the director) – solo
‘Delicate Steve’ Marion – solo
Psychedelic Horseshit
The Psychic Paramount
Colin Stetson (channeling the Morphine sound)
Tera Melos
13 & God
Tune-Yards (Merrill Garbus) – female solo
U.S. Girls (Megan Remy) – female solo
Jeans Wilder (Andrew Caddick) – solo
X-Ray Press
Young Circles
U.S. Cross-Cultural
A Hawk And A Hacksaw (Jeremy Barnes of Neutral Milk Hotel) –Yiddish
Fool’s Gold – afro-pop
The Macrotones – afro-funk
Mariachi El Bronx – mariachi
Ocote Soul Sounds – Latin funk
Prince Rama – Hindi
U.S Garage Rock
Thee American Revolution (sic) (Robert Schneider of The Apples In Stereo)
The Baseball Project (Pete Buck of R.E.M. and Steve Wynn of The Dream Syndicate)
Bass Drum Of Death
The Black Keys
The Bloody Hollies
Cloud Nothing (Dylan Baldi) – solo
Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds (Brian Tristan of Gun Club, Cramps, and Nick Cave/Bad Seeds)
Mikal Cronin – solo
Deer Tick
DOM
Dum Dum Girls
Hanni El Khatib – solo
The Ettes
The Handcuffs
Hunx And The Punx
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Jookabox
The Ladybirds (not the 60s England group)
Locksley
Mind Spiders (Mark Ryan) – solo
Obits (Rick Froberg of Drive Like Jehu)
(Reid) Paley & (Black) Francis (Charles Thompson of The Pixies)
Sic Alps (for both Breadhead and Napa Ensemble)
Sleeper Agent
Street Eaters
Thee Oh Sees (sic) (for both Carrion Crawler and Castlemania)
Those Darlins (sic)
Total Babes
Two Cow Garage
Wavves
White Fence (Tim Presley of Darker My Love) – solo
‘Jack Oblivian’ Yarber – solo
U.S. Hard Rock
All Eyes West
Blackfire Revelation
Crossfade
Crystal Antlers
Flogging Molly
Just Visiting
Lionize
Loners
The Memorials (Thomas Pridgen of The Mars Volta)
Noise By Numbers
Jordan Page – solo
Razer
Rival Sons
Rose Hill Drive
Russian Circles
Sainthood Reps
The Story Changes
Thousand Watt Stair (Pat Kim of Unwritten Law)
Three Legged Fox
Totimoshi
Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned To Death
Voices Of Extreme
Yob
U.S. Industrial
Electric Six
U.S. Alt-Metal
Fatetwister
Hollywood Undead
Shinobi Nonja
U.S. Soul
Aabaraki
The Bo-Keys
Charles Bradley
Fitz And The Tantrums
Little Jackie
Mayer Hawthorne (Andrew Cohen) – solo
Nikki Jean (Nicholle Leary) – female solo
Raphael Saadiq (Charles Wiggins) – solo
U.S. Funk
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
CSC Funk Band
The Funk Ark
Nappy Riddem
100 Monkeys
Turkuaz
U.S. Reggae
‘Elan’ Atias – solo
J Boog (Jerry Afemata) (not J-Boog of U.S. soul band B2K) – solo
Ellwood (members of Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and Mad Caddies) – ska
Empresarios
Extra Classic
Trevor Hall – solo
Prince Polo (Billy Szeflinski) – solo
Rebelution
See-I
U.S. Dance-Rock/Electro/Synth
Alias (Brendon Whitney)
ANR (aka Awesome New Republic) (not the same-named Texas metal band)
Antonionian
Andrew Bayer – solo
Beats Antique
Body Language
Boom Bip (Bryan Hollon) – solo
Botanical Bullets
Brite Futures (sic)
The Chain Gang Of 1974 (Kamtin Mohager) – solo
Class Actress (Elizabeth Harper) – female solo
Matthew Cooper (of Eluvium) (soundtrack to film Some Days Are Better Than Others)
Beth Ditto (Mary Patterson of Gossip) – female solo
Daedelus (Alfred Darlington) – solo
Dom
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (sic)
Escort
(Joel) Ford & (Daniel) Lopatin
Jason Forrest – solo
Foster The People
French Horn Rebellion
Future Islands
Wolfgang Gartner (Joey Youngman) – solo
Gauntlet Hair
Geoti (Will Wiesenfeld of Baths)
Goddamn Electric Bill (Jason Torbert) – solo
Shana Halligan – female solo
Hang Glider
Barbie Hatch – female solo
Hercules & Love Affair
High Places
Holy Ghost!
Ezekiel Honig – solo
Innerpartysystem
Jupe Jupe
Kaskade (Ryan Raddon) – solo
Kid Is Qual
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Lightyear (Lauren Zettler) – female solo
Rene Lopez – solo
Love Inks
Martial Canterel (Sean McBride) (sounds like 70s England post-punk band Magazine)
Mates Of State
John Maus – solo
Memory Tapes (Dayve Hawk) – solo
Neon Indian
Phantogram
Pictureplane (Travis Egedy) – solo
Pony Tail
Pyyramids (sic) (not one of the same-named U.S. 60s surf or current multiple indie bands)
Rainbow Arabia
Samiyam (Sam Baker) – solo
Second Sky
Sepalcure
‘James Pants’ Singleton – solo
Soft Metals
Solomon – solo
STRFKR
Toro Y Moi (Chazwick Bundick) – solo
Twitch The Ripper
VHS Or Beta
Saul Williams – solo
Win Win
Yacht
U.S. Male Solo
Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room (of Alkaline Trio)
Appetite (Teddy Briggs)
Blithe Field (Spencer Radcliffe)
Mike Bloom (of The Elected)
A.A.Bondy
Boots Electric (Jesse Hughes of Eagles Of Death Metal)
Meredith Bragg
Canon Blue (Daniel James)
CANT (Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear)
Gary Clark Jr.
Bosco Delray
Brett Dennan
Dominant Legs (Ryan Lynch)
Kevin Devine
Ducktails (Matt Mondanile of Real Estate)
‘Alexander’ Ebert (singer of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros)
Williams Fitzsimmons
David Gergen (not the politician)
The Goldberg Sisters (the actor Adam Goldberg)
Golden Bloom (Shawn Fogel)
Goldmund (Keith Kenniff) (piano covers of 1800s folk songs)
Bryan Greenberg
Idiot Glee (James Friley)
Alec Gross
Robby Hecht
Hurricane Bells (Steve Schiltz of Longwave)
Iron & Wine (Sam Beam)
Will James
Argyle Johansen
Gabriel Kahane
Brian Keenan
Lance King – prog-metal
Amos Lee
Low Roar (Ryan Karazija)
Matt Lowell
Cass McCombs (for both Humor Risk and Wit’s End)
Fan Modine (Gordon Zacharias)
Raleigh Moncrief
Daniel Martin Moore
Dustin O’Halloran (classical piano)
Only Son (Jack Dishel of Moldy Peaches)
Pandit (Lance Smith)
Marco Panella
Papercuts (Jason Quever)
Part Time (David Speck)
Psychic Babble (Colin Frangicetto)
Chuck Ragan
Luke Rathbone
Lawson Rollins (acoustic guitar)
Sean Rowe
Mikey Sabatella
Will Samson
Ty Segall
Joe Shannon & Wings Of Sound
Jake Shimabukuro (ukelele instrumentals)
P.G. Six (Pat Gubler)
Tony Sly
Chadwick Stokes (Chad Urmston of State Radio)
Sun Lux (Ryan Lott)
Carter Tanton
Telekinesis (Michael Lerner)
Luke Temple
Ryan Traster
John Vanderslice
Kurt Vile
Wakey! Wakey! (Michael Grubbs)
Jonathan Wilson
Wooden Wand (James Jackson Toth)
Youth Lagoon (Trevor Powers)
U.S. Female Solo
Nicole Atkins
Robin Bacior
Abbie Barrett & The Last Date
‘Alela Diane’ Bevitori
Claire Bloom
Bright Archer (Johanna Kunin)
Pieta Brown
Vanessa Carlton
Comet Gains
Katie Costello
EMA (Erika Anderson)
Rachel Goodrich
Jolie Holland
Lia Ices
Lucy Jaeggi
Joan (Wasser) As Police Woman
Amy Lavere
Alexis Marceaux
My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worden)
Melissa Nadler
‘Jenny O’ Brien
Lucy Wainwright Roche (daughter of Loudon W. and Suzzy of 70s U.S. band The Roches)
St. Vincent (Annie Clark of The Polyphonic Spree)
Sea Of Bees (Julie Baenziger)
Heidi Spencer & The Rare Birds
Maria Taylor (of Azure Ray)
Sarabeth Tucek
Rachael Yamagata
Zola Jesus (Nika Rosa Danilova)
Emily Zuzik
90s Artists - good albums
U.S.
Ryan Adams (of Whiskeytown)
Alkaline Trio
Myra ‘Tori Amos” (acoustic Instrumentals)
… And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Joseph Arthur
Gregory Attonito (of Bouncing Souls)
Bardo Pond
Travis Barker (of Blink-182)
Matraca Berg
Andrew Bird (of Squirrel Nut Zippers) (soundtrack to movie Norman)
Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Bright Eyes
Cake
Calexico
Bill Callahan (of Smog)
Laura Cantrell (covering Kitty Wells)
Dave Cloud & The Gospel Of Power
Cold
Rob Crow (of Pinback)
Danielson
Death Cab For Cutie
Deerhoof
Dirtbombs
DJ Shadow (Joshua Davis)
David Dondero
Dropkick Murphys
Earth
Elysian Fields
Emperor X (Chad Matheny)
Everlast (Erik Schrody)
Melissa Ferrick
Face To Face
The Features
Dan Fleming
Fonda
Richmond Fontaine
Fountains Of Wayne
The Get Up Kids
Guster
Wil Hoge
Idaho
Incubus
Jackie-O Motherf**ker
Fred James & Mary-Ann Brandon
Mason Jennings
Tim Kasher (of Cursive)
G.Love (Gareth Dutton of G.Love & Special Sauce)
Low
Lowry
Tony Lucca (classic rock covers)
Stephen Merritt (of The Magnetic Fields)
Moby (Richard Hall)
Tom Morello (of Rage Against The Machine)
My Morning Jacket
Matt Nathanson
Of Montreal
Old 97’s
Oneida
Brad Paisley
Robert Pollard (of Guided By Voices) (for Birdcage and Space City)
Rasputina
Reckless Kelly
Josh Rouse
Luther Russell (first band was The Bootheels, with Jakob Dylan)
The Sea And Cake
Gregory Scott Slay (of Remy Zero)
Switchfoot
Thievery Corporation
31Knots
311
Umphrey’s McGee
Urge Overkill
Ursula 1000 (Alex Gimeno)
Jim Ward (of At The Drive-In)
Gillian Welch
William Elliott Whitmore
Wilco
Hank Williams III (for 3 albums – one industrial, one alt-country, one zydeco)
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Rest Of World
Acid House Kings
Brett Anderson (of Suede)
‘Geike’ Arnaert (of Hooverphonic)
Babybird
Boris (for 3 albums – Attention Please, Heavy Rocks, and New Album)
Bush
The Chemical Brothers (soundtrack to movie Hanna)
Circle
Adam Cohen (Leonard’s son)
Comet Gain
Covenant
Death In Vegas
Destroyer
Deus
Ana Egge
Gorki
GusGus
P.J. Harvey
Heideroosjes (channeling Green Day)
Matthew Herbert (song cycle about a pig’s aural lifespan)
The High Llamas
IAMX (Chris Corner of Sneaker Pimps)
Stevie Jackson (of Belle & Sebastian)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Kohn (Jurgen De Blonde)
Femi Kuti (son of Fela Kuti)
Ben Lee
Steve Mason (of Beta Band) & Dennis Bovell (of Matumbi)
Mr. Oizo (Quentin Dupieux)
Mogwai (for 3 – Earth Division, Hardcore Will Never Die and Zidane [movie about the soccer player])
New Cool Collective
Nightwish
Opeth
Pain Of Salvation
Plaid
Red Snapper
Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animals)
Roxette
Philip Selway (of Radiohead)
Ron Sexsmith
Sloan
Snow Patrol
Tahiti 80
Yann Tiersen
Sidi Toure
Swollen Members
Devin Townsend (for both the prog-metal Deconstruction and the acoustic prog-rock Ghost)
Unkle
White Willow
Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree)
Richard Youngs
90s Artists – weak albums
U.S.
The Aquabats
Atmosphere
David Banner (Lavell Crump)
Mary J. Blige
Blue October
Boys II Men
‘Carolyn Wonderland’ Bradford
Rick Braun
Richard Buckner
Nick Carter (of Backstreet Boys)
Chevelle
Chickenfoot (Hagar and Anthony of Van Halen, Chad Smith of RHCP, and Joe Satriani)
cKy
Crowbar
Declaime (Dudley Perkins)
Deicide
Diddy (Sean Combs)
DJ Quik (David Blake)
Foo Fighters
Lalah Hathaway (daughter of Donnie)
Faith Hill
Insane Clown Posse
Juliana Hatfield
Jamey Jasta (James Shanahan of Hatebreed)
Jay-Z (Shawn Carter)
Korn
Kottonmouth Kings
Kurupt (Ricardo Brown)
‘Maysa’ Leak
Sonia Leigh
Lil Wayne (Dwayne Carter)
Limp Bizkit
Jennifer Lopez
Machine Head
‘Toby Mac’ McKeehan (of D.C. Talk)
Brian McKnight
Mint Condition
Mobb Deep
Mocean Worker (Adam Dorn)
Pharoahe Monch (Troy Jameson)
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Found Glory
NKOTBSB (New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys)
Jeffrey Nothing (Jeff Hatrix of Mushroomhead)
O.A.R.
Mark O’Connor
Over The Rhine
Panda Bear (Noah Lawson of Animal Collective)
Mike Patton (soundtrack to film The Solitude Of Prime Numbers)
‘Pete Rock’ Phillips
Raekwon (Corey Woods)
The Rapture
The Roots
Samiam
Saves The Day
Smoking Popes
Britney Spears
Staind
David ‘Styles P’
Thursday
Toxic Holocaust
Trenchtown
Laura Veirs
Scott Wieland (of Stone Temple Pilots)
Hank Williams III (for 2 albums – one doom-metal, one speed-metal)
Wu-Tang Clan
Zebrahead
Z-Ro (Joseph McVey)
Rest Of World
Amon Amarth
‘Anouk’ Teeuwe
Atari Teenage Riot
Sherrie Austin
Barenaked Ladies
Biosphere
Burzum
Channel Zero
Chthonic
Cornershop (Bengali vocals)
Danko Jones
Deadlock (Germany metal band, not the same-named Germany hard rock band)
Evergrey
Eye-D (Frank Nitzinsky)
Christian ‘Fennesz’ & Ryuichi ‘Sakamoto’ (of Yellow Magic Orchestra)
Chilly Gonzales (Jason Beck)
In Flames
Kittie
Lamb
Radiohead
Secret Cinema (the Netherlands band, not the same-named England band)
Seefeel
Shaggy (Orville Burrell)
John Tejada
60s, 70s, 80s, Over-40 Crowd – good, worthy, interesting, “I’m glad they’re still around” albums
U.S.
Gregg Allman
Dave Alvin (The Blasters)
Patti Austin (covers of pop hits)
The Bangles
David Bazan (of Pedro The Lion)
Blondie
Bodeans
Bebe Buell
Buffalo Tom
Glen Campbell
The Cars
Chain & The Gang (Ian Svenonius)
Guy Clark
Dennis Coffey
Judy Collins
Ry Cooder
Alice Cooper
Kid Creole (August Darnell) & The Coconuts
The Cynics
Dream Theater
Ronnie Dunn (of Brooks & Dunn)
Duane Eddy
The Feelies
Howe Gelb (of Giant Sand)
Vince Gill
Guided By Voices (for both Doughnut for A Snowman and Let’s Go Eat The Factory)
Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates)
Joe Henry
John Hiatt
Buddy Holly (tribute album)
Wanda Jackson
Jane’s Addiction
The Jayhawks
Garland Jeffreys
Booker T. Jones (of The M.G.’s)
Glenn Jones (the acoustic guitarist, not the same-named 80s U.S. soul singer)
‘Lydia Lunch’ Koch & Big Sexy Noise (with James Johnston of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
David Lowery (of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker)
Steve Lukather (of Toto)
Ray Manzarek (of The Doors) (with Roy Rogers – the blues guitarist, not the singing cowboy)
Steve Martin (the actor, playing banjo/bluegrass)
J.Mascis
The Meat Puppets
The Misfits
Keb Mo (Kevin Moore)
Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth)
New York Dolls
Johnny Nicholas (Asleep At The Wheel) (blues, not swing)
Jag Panzer
Pavlov’s Dog
Sam Phillips
Primus
Red Hot Chili Peppers
R.E.M.
The Residents
Rocket From The Tombs (with David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys)
Roomful Of Blues
Todd Rundgren (for album of Robert Johnson covers)
Tom Russell
Gil Scott-Heron (with Jamie Smith of The XX)
Brian Setzer (of The Stray Cats) (guitar instrumentals)
Social Distortion
J.D. Souther (John David Sother [sic])
Speed The Plough
Tommy Stinson (of The Replacements)
They Might Be Giants
George Thorogood (blues covers)
Tom Waits
Craig Wedron (of Shudder To Think)
Leslie West (of Mountain)
Lucinda Williams
Rest Of World
Marc Almond (of Soft Cell)
Anvil
The Blow Monkeys
Tim Booth (of James)
John Cale
Clan Of Xymox
Cowboy Junkies (for both Demons and Sing In My Meadow)
Dave Davies (of The Kinks, brother of Ray)
Brian Eno (for Small Craft On A Milk Sea)
Erasure
Marianne Faithful
The Fall
Faust
John Foxx (of Ultravox) (for 3 albums – with Harold Budd, with The Maths, with Theo Travis)
Gavin Friday (Fionan Hanvey of The Virgin Prunes [Bono’s 1st band, with The Edge’s brother, Dik])
Gang Of Four
Bob Geldof (of Boomtown Rats)
Roger Glover (of Deep Purple)
Catherina ‘Nina Hagen’
Robert Haigh
Mick Harvey (of The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
De Kift
Steve Kilbey (of The Church)
King Crimson
Kingdom Come
Simon Kirke (of Free and Bad Company)
Die Krupps
Julian Lennon
The Lijadu Sisters (cousins of Fela Kuti)
Lostboy! (Jim Kerr of Simple Minds)
Magazine
John Martyn
Mekons
Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus)
Nazareth
Mani Neumeier (of Guru Guru) & Kawabata Makota (of Acid Mothers Temple)
‘Boy George’ O’Dowd (of Culture Club)
Pet Shop Boys (soundtrack to ballet The Most Incredible Thing)
Simon Phillips (with Trilok Gurtu)
Pop Will Eat Itself
Brian Robertson (of Thin Lizzy and Motorhead)
Robbie Robertson (of The Band)
Shonen Knife (all Ramones covers)
Shriekback (Barry Andrews of XTC)
Skinny Puppy
Stereo MCs
Dave Stewart
Poly Styrene (Marianne Elliott-Said of X-Ray Spex)
David Sylvian (of Japan)
Emmett Tinley (of The Prayer Boat)
Uriah Heep
‘Guido Belcanto’ Versmissen
The Waterboys
Gary Numan’ Webb
Wire (for Red Barked Tree and Strays)
Yes
60s, 70s, 80s, Over-40 Crowd – dull, boring, poor, “why did they even bother?” albums
U.S.
America (dull covers of soft-rock hits)
Paul Anka
Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
Beastie Boys
Jello Biafra (Eric Boucher of Dead Kennedys)
Pat Boone
Edie Brickell
Lindsey Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac)
Chicago
Linda Eder
Five Eight
Black Francis (Frank Black of Pixies)
Michael Franks
Indigo Girls
The Human League
Michael Jackson
Journey
Carole King
KMFDM
Jordan Knight (of New Kids On The Block)
Alison Kraus & Union Station
Barry Manilow
Richard Marx
Pat Metheny
Ronnie Millsap
Stevie Nicks (of Fleetwood Mac)
‘Ann-Margret’ Olsson
Dolly Parton
Suzi Quatro
Lou Reed & Metallica
Steve Roach
Todd Rundgren (for album of synth-pop covers of songs he produced for other artists)
Screeching Weasel
Tommy Shaw (of Styx) (bluegrass music)
Paul Simon
Sonic Youth (soundtrack to film Simon Werner)
Stryper
Keith Sweat
Micah ‘Pastor Troy’
UGK (Underground Kings)
Whitesnake
Betty Wright And The Roots
Rest Of World
Hennie Becker
Beequeen
Bruce Cockburn
Bulldozer
Kate Bush
Duran Duran
Brian Eno (for Drums Between The Bells) (ambient, with whispered poetry)
Foreigner
Peter Gabriel
‘Bjork’ Gudmundsdottir
Little River Band
Nick Lowe
Paul McCartney (Ocean’s Kingdom ballet)
Daniel O’Donnell
Cliff Richard
Saxon
Scientist (Hopeton Brown)
Sepultura
John Waite (of The Babys)
Worthwhile Live Albums – U.S.
The B-52s (2011 Athens, GA)
Baby Dee (2009 Amsterdam) – baroque chamber pop
T-Bone Burnett (2010 N.Y. – the ‘Speaking Clock Revue’ show)
Chadwick Stokes (Charles Urmston of State Radio) (2009) – solo
The Devil Makes Three (2011 Petaluma, CA) – alt-country
Dropkick Murphys (2011 Fenway Park, Boston) – hard rock
The Foreign Exchange – soul
Warren Haynes (Asheville, NC) – southern rock
Levon Helm (of The Band) (2008 Nashville – Ryman Auditorium)
Jane’s Addiction (2011 Mexico City)
L.A. Guns (acoustic versions) – hard rock
LCD Soundsystem (2010 London) – synth
The Melvins (2011)
Rhett Miller (of Old 97’s) (2008 Los Angeles – Largo Theater) (acoustic covers of classics)
Mountain Man (2010 Los Angeles – Wiltern Theater) – psych-folk
OK Go
Pavlov’s Dog (2009) – prog-rock
Iggy Pop (1977-2009 bootleg versions of hits)
R.E.M. (1989 Orlando, FL)
Todd Rundgren (1990 Japan)
Gil Scott-Heron
Scream (a Dave Grohl pre-Nirvana band, which also included Franz Stahl of Foo Fighters) – hard rock
Todd Snider
Talking Heads (1980 Toronto – Heatwave Festival) (first performance of Remain In Light)
Neil Young & The International Harvesters (1984) – alt-country
Worthwhile Live Albums – Rest Of World
Bad Company (2010 London – Wembley Arena) – hard rock – England
Jeff Beck (2003 N.Y. – B.B.King’s Blues Club) (with Terry Bozzio of Frank Zappa) – England
Jeff Beck (2010 N.Y.) (rockabilly classics honoring Les Paul) – England
The Cure (2011 Isle Of Wight Bestival) – post-punk – England
Eric Burden And The Animals (2005 Athens, Greece) – England
Deep Purple (1976 Japan) (Coverdale, T.Bolin, Lord, Hughes, and Paice) – hard rock – England
Def Leppard – hard rock – England
Bob Marley (1980 Pittsburgh, his final concert) – reggae – Jamaica
Mott The Hoople (2009 London – Hammersmith) – England
PiL (2011 Isle Of Wight, England) – post-punk – England
Rolling Stones (1978 Fort Worth, TX) – England
Slash (Saul Hudson of Guns N’Roses) (2011 Stoke, England) – hard rock – England
The Slits (various John Peel sessions) – post-punk – England
The Unthanks (2010 London) (covers of Antony & The Johnsons and Robert Wyatt) – baroque – England
The Wedding Present (1989) – England
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