The 2009 Recommend a Band Thread

To paraphrase Jon Stewart....Do you like joy? Then you'll LOVE Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band!

Come on now. Let's at least have some fair comparisons. Not even close in style or talent.

I am pro-Citizen Cope, although I'm not sure about the comparison to MMJ.

But if you like laid-back hip-hop, Cope is your guy.

If you like Cold War Kids and The Walkmen, you should check out Delta Spirit

If you like Animal Collective, you should check out Yeasayer

If you like Bruce Springsteen, you should check out Alejandro Escovedo

If you like De La Soul and Del Tha Funky Homosapien, you should check out People Under The Stairs

If you like The Clash and Elvis Costello, then you should check out Ted Leo

If you like punk and electronic music, you should check out Crystal Castles

If you like your folk rock dark, experimental, and with a touch of The Beach Boys, you should check out Grizzly Bear

If you like M.I.A. and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, you should check out Santogold

If you like shitty faux-metal, you should check out Coheed & Cambria

If you like flamboyant glam-dance-pop-rock, you should check out Of Montreal

If you like haunting, beautiful, ethereal folk music, you should check out Bon Iver

If you like noodling, you should check out Phish

If you like sing-alongs, you should check out Bruce Springsteen

If you like Phish, I like you

Damn, you beat me! I was just about to start this thread....and then I noticed yours and didn't realize what it was until I clicked....thanks for starting it! I loved this thread last year and since I'm one of the only ones not in love with this lineup, I'm really looking forward to some recommendations that will help me love it.

if you like Druqs you'll like animal collective

Any fun loving folk rocker whos down for a probable mid afternoon toke and jam sing a long....

Todd Snider

All hippies more then welcome..... My super recommendation

IF YOU DON'T LIKE KICKING PUPPIES, GO SEE BON IVER

if you like the shins you will like the decemberists

if you attend 'roo 09 you will like band of horses

If you like the thought of Rush wearing girls pants, you'll like Coheed & Cambria.

Its a little bit of a leap from the bands you've listed, but i have a feeling you would enjoy Citizen Cope. He's got sort of a chill, reggae, folsky rock kinda thing going on. his songs are amazing. my favorite album is probably The Clarence Greenwood Recordings. if you just want a few songs try:
Nite Becomes Day
Son's Gonna Rise
Mistaken I.D.



Edit: Girl talk as good as it gets if you like to dance. he is a mashup DJ. he takes older hip hop classics and mixes them with modern stuff for a really awesome, unexpected and totally danceable sound. his shows are notoriously high energy and people love them cause you generally have heard most of what he is playing, but he only drops each track for 30 seconds or so. I dont really like his recordings so much, because they dont really capture what he does live.

If you like Springsteen's album Nebraska, you'll like A.A. Bondy