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 1^st 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