Bands

I get a lot of questions about music and bands I like, so I thought I’d make an incredibly disorganized and random list of some bands I dig. Keep in mind, it’s not every band I like and there may be some repeats, but whatever. Check em’ out.

  • Wilco
  • Okkervil River
  • The Smiths
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Radiohead
  • Neutral Milk Hotel*
  • MGMT
  • Elbow
  • Local Natives
  • Givers*
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  • Grouplove
  • Time And Time Again
  • Iron & Wine
  • Oberhofer*
  • The xx
  • The Vaccines*
  • Of Monsters and Men
  • Cage The Elephant
  • Miike Snow
  • Miles Kane
  • Akron/Family*
  • Imagine Dragons
  • Broken Social Scene
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Born Ruffians
  • Real Estate
  • The Oh Sees
  • The Donnis Trio
  • Bishop Allen
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Pedro the Lion
  • JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound
  • James Blake
  • M. Ward
  • The War On Drugs
  • Band of Horses
  • Metric
  • Grandaddy
  • The Antler
  • Desaparecidos
  • Kid Cudi
  • The Paper Kites*
  • The Idyllists
  • The Avett Brothers
  • The Sound Tactics
  • Dawin Deez
  • The Head and the Heart
  • Reptar
  • Animal Collective
  • Sigur Ros
  • Jonsi
  • Beck
  • Das Racist
  • First Aid Kit
  • Taking Back Sunday
  • Interpol
  • Frank Zappa
  • St. Vincent
  • The Maccabees
  • Modest Mouse
  • My Morning Jacket
  • The Kills
  • Panda Bear
  • Mumford and Sons
  • Blink-182 (classic, idgaf)
  • Bomb the Music Industry!
  • Bon Iver
  • Amos Lee
  • Blind Pilot
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Swith Westerns
  • Walk the Moon
  • FIDLAR*
  • The Decemberists
  • Moon Taxi
  • The Killers
  • Andrew Bird*
  • Flaming Lips
  • Manchester Orchestra
  • The Postal Service
  • The Rocket Summer
  • Coconut Records*
  • Dr. Dog*
  • Death Cab for Cutie
  • Dispatch
  • City and Colour
  • Charlie Parker
  • Grizzly Bear
  • Does It Offen You, Yeah?
  • Beach House
  • Spoon
  • Jack’s Mannequin
  • RATATAT
  • Two Door Cinema Club
  • Flogging Molly
  • Twin Shadow
  • The Shins
  • Stray Cats
  • The Aquabats
  • Crystal Castles
  • Passion Pit
  • Bob Dylan
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • The Who
  • Regina Spektor
  • She & Him
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • YACHT
  • Peter Wolf Crier
  • The Kooks
  • Explosions in the Sky
  • Matt & Kim
  • Bob Marley
  • Arcade Fire
  • Of Montreal
  • Postal Service
  • Weezer
  • Bright Eyes
  • Andrew Jackson Jihad
  • Defiance, Ohio*
  • Jim Morrissey
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
  • Alexander
  • The Black Keys
  • The Strokes*
  • The Black Lips
  • Noah And the Whale
  • Say Anything
  • Backseat Goodbye
  • The Dodos
  • Fionn Regan*
  • Elliot Smith
  • Pink Floyd
  • Yellow Ostrich
  • Ramones*
  • Phoenix
  • Alex Turner
  • The Murdochs
  • Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
  • This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
  • Ghost Mice
  • Foals
  • Sufjan Stevens
  • Zooey Deschanel
  • The Doors
  • The Beatles
  • Julia Nunes
  • Ingrid Michaelson*
  • Starfucker/ STRFKR
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Vampire Weekend
  • Starlit Exit
  • The Wombats
  • Cold War Kids
  • Andrew Bird*
  • OK Go
  • Birdy
  • Young the Giant
  • Arcade Fire
  • Coldplay (their older stuff)
  • Nirvana
  • Daughter
  • Igor Haefeli
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Bombay Bicycle Club
  • XTC
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • Mumford & Sons
  • Wavves*
  • Lydia
  • The Last Shadow Puppets
  • Brand New**
  • Boys like Girls
  • Fun.
  • Boards of Canada
  • The Velvet Underground
  • Morrissey
  • Sex Pistols
  • The Cure
  • Umphrey’s Mcgee
  • The New Pornographers
  • Justice
  • Camera Obscura
  • El Ten Eleven
  • Cursive
  • Hey Rosetta!
  • I Am Oak
  • The Good Life*
  • Neon Indian
  • Lucy Schwartz
  • SBTRKT
  • Michael Andrews
  • M83
  • Metronomy
  • Nana Grizol
  • Brazos*
  • Prefuse 73
  • Of Montreal
  • Metric
  • The Envy Corps
  • Choir of Young Believers
  • The Big Pink
  • Florence + the Machine
  • Big Gigantic
  • Best Coast
  • Phoenix
  • The Cinematic Orchestra
  • Buddy Holly
  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • The Jayhawks
  • Jack White
  • Gotye
  • 1, 2, 3
  • The Fray
  • Ben Howard
  • Sleigh Bells
  • Avi Buffalo
  • Dog is Dead
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Middle East
  • Foster the People
  • Gorillaz
  • Lana Del Rey
  • Animal Kingdom
  • The Answering Machine
  • Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
  • Generationals
  • Transit
  • Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
  • The Lumineers* (the song Slow it Down is beautiful)
  • The Cinematic Orchestra
  • The Mountain Goats
  • Surfer Blood
  • Avalanche City
  • The Barr Brothers
  • Harlem Shakes
  • Dexys Midnight Runners
  • La Dispute
  • Freelance Whales*
  • Tribes
  • Beirut
  • Owen
  • Dawes
  • The Tins
  • Dale Ernhardt Jr. Jr.
  • Commander Venus
  • We Are Trees
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Foxygen
  • Cloud Nothings
  • Tigers Jaw
  • Glasvegas*
  • The Cribs
  • Jason Lytle
  • The Miracals
  • Youth Lagoon*
  • Lambchop
  • Islands
  • Dom
  • Bear Hands
  • The Soft Pack
  • Belle and Sebastian
  • Bjork
  • Parquet Courts
  • Rodriguez
  • Free Energy
  • The Front Bottoms
  • The Lonely Forest
  • Yo La Tengo*
  • Built to Spill
  • Girls
  • Joyce Manor
  • Les Savy Fav
  • SWIM DEEP
  • Liars
  • Deerhunter
  • No age
  • Ice Age
  • CHEATAHS
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Young Buffalo
  • The Weeknd
  • The Spinto Band
  • Leauges
* means that I really, really dig this band.