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  • I second Hum...they are amazing! It's been too long since I pulled them out, actually.
    Hell yeah! I think more people should check them out.
    If you like Hum, you should check out Failure. They remind me of a cross between Hum and Sunny Day Real Estate.
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  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Edit: OOOPS - double post
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  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    the Decemberists - the Crane Wife and Picaresque are 2 must have albums

    Okkervil River - have become one of my favorite bands since seeing them open for the New Pornographers

    Battles - if you're looking for "complex" their album Mirrored is fantastic

    Beirut - definitely an acquired taste....but I love 'em
    In my world everyone is a pony,
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  • frusciante89frusciante89 Posts: 125
    Drive-By Truckers I cant recommend enough, and the Hold Steady are both great, intelligent,loud rock and roll
  • Band of Horses-Everything All the Time

    Interpol-I just recently discovered them and I can't stop listening to their stuff.
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  • Drive-By Truckers I cant recommend enough, and the Hold Steady are both great, intelligent,loud rock and roll

    Drive-By Truckers are all kinds of awesome.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Drive-By Truckers are all kinds of awesome.

    Agreed!
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • lisamlisam Posts: 75
    I love Modest Mouse. I seen them this year at the Oz V festival and despite having a shitty time slot and the worst sound drop outs ive ever heard they were awesome.

    I also really really like The Killers
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  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    Todd76 wrote:
    the Decemberists - the Crane Wife and Picaresque are 2 must have albums



    Beirut - definitely an acquired taste....but I love 'em

    What he said ^

    Also ive just found out about and been listening to DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling, they have a sound going on that is similar in parts to Beirut, its nice!

    Get the new Nick Cave lp Dig Lazrus Dig its awesome.
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • What he said ^

    Also ive just found out about and been listening to DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling, they have a sound going on that is similar in parts to Beirut, its nice!

    Get the new Nick Cave lp Dig Lazrus Dig its awesome.

    Devotchka's Transliterator is one of my favourite songs of the last year or so.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    Devotchka's Transliterator is one of my favourite songs of the last year or so.

    Let me just put it back on as ive only heard it once thus far......

    Oh yeah its a pretty effing good track this one :cool:

    Do ya like Beirut then? Gulag Orkestar is quality!
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • Let me just put it back on as ive only heard it once thus far......

    Oh yeah its a pretty effing good track this one :cool:

    Do ya like Beirut then? Gulag Orkestar is quality!

    I've never even heard of 'em. :o:p I'll have to check them out. :)
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    I've never even heard of 'em. :o:p I'll have to check them out.

    like the above poster said "they are an acquired taste" but if you like DeVotchKa i can see you liking them a bit, errrrr perhaps :)

    This is taken from a review on amazon that i liked the way it summed them up

    "This new band consists of teenage musician Zach Condon, along with people from Neutral Milk Hotel and A Hawk and a Hacksaw, making bittersweet folkpop and danceable marches. Imagine a band of slightly drunk gypsies on parade, and you'll have the general idea of how it sounds."

    Class, don't tell me you can't wait to hear em now :D;)
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Gulag Orkestar is quality!

    Gulag Orkestar is great.....but I personally much prefer The Flying Club Cup album and the Lon Gisland EP - fantastic!!!!!

    and I love DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Retelling is definitely one of my fav albums so far this year
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
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