The Dodos is probably one of my favorite bands. It has crazy instrumentals, some epic guitar and sweet sweet vocals and lyrics. All around it is just a pretty badass band that I enjoy listening to. The Dodos consists of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber and combines Long's training in West African Ewe drumming and Kroeber's metal influence to really bring out the guitar and drumming. Seriously will blow your mind. This song, The Season was pretty much the song I listened to whenever I had downtime in my stay in Seattle. If I was listening to music, I was listening to the Dodos. Duh.
Also check out, Jodi... well just every song really.
Aloe Blacc doesn't have much discography. He's signed with Epic for the UK and Ireland. Youtube, with all its links led me to clicking on his video for "I Need A Dollar" and really it's great. So take a listen. Some background info, he used to be in the group Emanon, but now he's not.
Beach House is a band from Baltimore, Maryland that is more of a chill band, along the lines of Band of Horses... I think. I found them at my radio show last year because we have to play 2 songs every hour from the rack of new cds. Basically epic. They have also been compared to that of Nico, which I know from "The Royal Tenenbaums" by Wes Anderson. Check out These Days by Nico. Listen below to "Norway" by them. The song Zebra is also one of my favorites.
This band, Tennis is just awesome. I myself like to enjoy a good game of tennis, but due to my lack of dedication I'm still just average. But whatever, my racket it badass and it's a good way to just kick it in the summer when I'm not doing research, running, or working. Hollah. Anyways this band actually has this perfect song called marathon, which is really perfect because I play tennis and I've ran a marathon. Check that out! So this band is actually from Denver, well started playing music in Denver. They sailed around, husband and wife, and wrote songs at sea. Basically epic and they are the new thing. I'm telling you.
The Young Coyotes are another Denver band. I'm about to go running so this is going to get short but just listen to them. I'm really pleased with this band. In fact I just used some of my iTunes gift cards to buy their music. This song is called "The Sun Continues to Reach Me"
And because I like all sorts of music, here's some french music for your listening pleasure! Tryo is a french reggae band. This info is copied from Wikipedia because I'm lazy now.
Tryo is a French language 'unplugged' reggae acoustic band, popular in Europe and in Quebec, with three French guitarists, a Latin American percussionist, and a producer: Guizmo, Christophe Mali, Manu Eveno, Daniel "Danielito" Bravo and Bibou.
Tryo are popular in France partly due to their politically charged lyrics, whilst also showing a fun side with a range of humorous songs, especially in live performances.
They take a left wing stance, criticising various French politicians such as Charles Pasqua (named in corruption scandals concerning suburban low cost housing or HLM) and Jean-Marie Le Pen and world leaders (George W. Bush, for example) in their music. The band has a "tolerant" view on cannabis, demonstrated by 'La Main Verte' from the 'Mamagubida' album. Drug references are reduced in their later albums.
Oh yeah check this out. His Orchestra "Attached"
Oren Lavie was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Israel. His video for Her Morning Elegance, song below, is fantastic.
The Capitol Years is a group from Philadelphia that hit the scene in July 2001. That's really about all the info I have at this point. This song is "You Can Stay There"
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