You might enjoy Daniel Lanois’ latest band, Black Dub. (And one more, because it’s so frigging good - Ring The Alarm.)
At 46 I love new music and new artists - I’ll be bookmarking this thread to find a bunch more new stuff. A couple of good sources for good new artists are also David Letterman and Craig Ferguson.
One thing that truly irritates me is Boomers saying things like, “There isn’t any good music made any more.” There is so much good new music, and it is so inventive and creative and entertaining. Some of the good new music is even a throwback to the good old music (The Killers, Wolfmother, The Strokes, etc.).
I’m over 40 and I listen mostly to top 40. I pretty much skipped the 90s and I don’t like hip-hop but everything else is fine. Then again, I think Ke$ha makes great music to dance to and I like Heartache Tonight so just put me down as musically unsophisticated.
I’m 47 and my wife 42. We grew up in the 80’s listening to alternative music.
New music we have been enjoying: Alt-J(saw them live last month, they’re so young!)
**Django Django **(saw them live last month, they’re so young!)
**DIIV ** (saw them live last night, they’re soooo young!) How to Destroy Angels (saw them live last night, they’re old!)
**Silversun Pickups **(saw them live last year, they’re so young!) Muse (saw them live this month, they’re still youngish!) MuteMath (saw them live last fall, they’re almost young!)
**Vampire Weekend **(will see them live next month) Cage the Elephant
The National
Arcade Fire
The Killers
Mercan Dede
MGMT
Tame Impala
The Bravery
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mumford and Sons
We got XM radio in the early 2000s and left it tuned to Fred on 44 (80’s Alternative) because it always had a great alternative mix. I tried to get my wife to start listening to XMU and Ethel (new alternative), but she just couldn’t get past the great playlists that Fred had. After Sirius bought XM and got rid of the deep playlists, we changed over to AltNation, XMU and Verge.
I just have to say that I hate the Sirius music formats and the DJs are useless, but it’s still way better than terestrial radio. That’s the marketing they need, “We suck, but at least there aren’t commercials!”
I’m now trying to get my wife using Slacker or Pandora to use as a music provider because Sirius is costing too much, but she is somewhat technophobic so it is taking a while.
BTW, put us in the camp with those who don’t enjoy Top40, Todays Favourites, Classic Rock, Hot AC, etc. Our terestrial radio listening is News, Comedy, or specialty shows.
Not to mention, a great deal of the music the boomers are nostalgic for is a throwback to the blues artists of the 20’s-50’s. I have a younger friend (who knows better, I swear) who thinks the cut off date is 1997. :rolleyes:
I’m 45, and I think it has never been easier to find good new music. I don’t want to hear Classic Rock; it’s fine as a kind of aural wallpaper, but I do like to experiment with different genres: there’s a limit to how many times you can listen to the Police or CCR. At the moment I’m pretty much done with rock and the kind of alt-folk that’s in vogue right now and listen to a lot of electronic stuff, but that will probably change in a few months. I tend to go in cycles with what I listen to: this time last year it was a lot of chirpy Brit-rock; now it’s more likely to be something like Shotgun Senorita.
Now it’s all about electro house, dubstep, urban hip-hop crossover, indietronica, post-punk, neo-soul, bluegrass indie country, adult alternative singer/songwriter, so on and so forth.
The point is, there’s a lot of new music that’s pretty good. I’m 40 and I listen to most of the “Pitchfork.com top 100 bands of the past decade” bands listed by other posters already (Pitchfork.com is actually a pretty good site for finding new music FYI). It’s just that there is a lot more diversity these days so every rock band doesn’t sound like a Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones clone anymore.
Although if that’s your thing, there are still bands like Wolfmother, The Hives and The Strokes.
Some other decent acts not mentioned (or maybe they have…I didn’t check all of them):
Arcade Fire - indie rock
Arctic Monkeys - britpop
Bloc Party - britpop
The Black Keys - indie garage rock
The Bravery - britpop
Bon Iver - indie folk
deadmau5 - electro house
fun. - indie pop
Kanye West - rap/hip-hop
Kings of Leon - indie country rock
The Lumineers - folk rock
M83 - indietronica
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - alternative hip hop
The National - indie rock
Neon Trees - indie pop
Swedish House Mafia - electro house
The xx - indietronica
Phillip Phillips - Home
Jason Mraz - I Won’t Give Up
One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
fun. - Some Nights
Train - Hey, Soul Sister
Colbie Caillat - Brighter Than the Sun
Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
Plain White Ts - Rhythm of Love
Ed Sheeran - The A Team
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
55, and adding to my music collection every week. There is just so much music out there to explore, and I do not intend to be the old fogey yelling at those kids to get out of the yard and to turn down their dadblamed music. So many ways to find new music, Pandora, NPR, YouTube --just today I saw the video for Taylor Swift’s collaboration with The Civil Wars and thought it was great, and I love the Live from Darryl’s House series.
I try to see all the live music I can, and in the past few years have gotten CDs signed by:
Duncan Sheik
Dick Prall
David Berkeley (just last week, played some cuts off his soon-to-be-released album)
Vienna Teng
Works Progress Administration
Tony Furtado
Stolen Silver
Brian Vander Ark
and more. This week’s unsigned CDs are The Script (#3), Iron and Wine (Ghost to Ghost), and The Shouting Matches (Grownass Man).
Besides all the new artists I’ve added over the years (Toby Lightman, Gavin DeGraw, Butterfly Boucher, Citizen Cope, Gotye, John Mayer, Maroon 5, Matchbox 20, Bruno Mars, etc) I’m also filling in gaps with new-to-me artists like Collective Soul and Tonic, and new releases by groups I enjoy like The Wallflowers and Dave Matthews Band. I’ll also be scoping this thread to see what I like that other “old” Dopers like. So little time, so much music, and people who only buy old music off infomercials are missing out.
Pushing 50 here. Bands that are coming up on my playlist:
Pretty Lights
Band of Horses
M83
The Cinematic Orchestra
Janelle Monáe
Banco De Gaia
Ellen Allien
Armin van Buuren
Grimes
Bluetech
Marina & The Diamonds
Foals
I still love most of the old stuff I grew up with, but I can only take it in limited doses nowadays.
This. If anything, there’s too much good music out there.
I have an 11yo and listen to a lot of pop, top-40, whatever they call it. As when I was her age, some is good, some is irritating, some is bland. Unfortunately, for the purposes of this thread I don’t know the artist’s names.
I do like irritating my daughter by arguing that much of what she listens to is very similar to what was popular when I was her age.
Over 50 and a head-banger/hard-rock fanatic since I was 16.
Athough I find their music to be derivative, I like Ke$ha and Lady Gaga* as background music. I like the music part of reggaeton. Unfortunately, much of the lyrical content is dumb, sexist or borderline-obscene.
I also like dub step and electronica. I’m embarrassed to admit it but, I even like the stuff that SNL parodies in its “Deep House Dish” skits.
*Oddly enough, I can’t stand Madonna, whom LG shamelessly rips off. Go figure…
I like the music part of Lady Gaga (not sure if I’ve ever heard Ke$ha.) But her voice is mega-annoying, which is made worse because she’s a good singer: there are clips of her singing pretty well. I don’t see why she has to alter her voice to make it suck.
Going alphabetically through my iTunes library, I’ve recently purchased songs by Alejandro Escovedo, Amy Winehouse, Avett Brothers, Bell X 1, Dawes, Benjamin Gibberd/Death Cab For Cutie, Brandi Carlile, Calexico, David Grey, Garland Jeffreys, Jack Johnson, Jakob Dylan/Wallflowers, James Maddock, Jason Mraz, Joan Osborne, John Hiatt, Madeleine Peyroux, Milton, Ray LaMontagne, and Regina Spektor.
Most only a song or two, some three of four. Of course other artists that have been around for many years, I have more of their songs with a select few having way upwards.
I listen to what I consider to be new and then find out they’ve been around for years.
Thievery Corporation. Especially Hari Krishna and Lebanese Blonde.
Fleet Foxes.
Audra May. She’s the great grand nice of Judy Garland.
My Morning Jacket.
Michael Franti.
Damian Marley.
Snow Patrol.
One Eskimo.
Before I got Sirius Radio I used to listen to an independent station out of Annapolis, I was just thinking I should go back to listening to them. They play an eclectic mix and I was always getting turned on to new music.
I’m pushing 60, I never listen to the radio or watch shows with singing themes, and if I look at a list of the current top 40 songs, I may have only heard of one or two of them, and maybe five of the artists.
Nevertheless, I hear new songs I like fairly often, just from the musical guests on late night talk shows or SNL. That’s how I discovered “Some Nights” and “Suit and Tie,” to name a couple.
I confess that the appeal of rap and hip-hop completely escapes me.
