A Decent Sized List of My Favorite Bands

... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
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A.A. Bondy
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
A Tribe Called Quest
AC Newman
Aesop Rock
Akron/Family
Album Leaf, The
Alexi Murdoch
Amandine
And So I Watch You from Afar
Andrew Bird
Anthony Hamilton
Antlers, The
Antony and the Johnsons
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Art Brut
Art of Noise
Au Revoir Simone

Balmorhea
Bat for Lashes
Beach House
Beck
Ben Folds
Ben Harper
Ben Kweller
Black Keys, The
Black Mountain
Blakroc
Blitzen Trapper
Bloc Party
Boards of Canada
Bobby Darin
Bobby Womback
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bowerbirds
Brakes
Bravery, The
Breeders, The
Broken Social Scene
Builders and the Butchers, The
Built to Spill

Calexico
Camera Obscura
Cat Power
CFCF
Chairlift
Chuck Berry
Clarence Carter
Clint Mansel
Coasters, The
Cold War Kids
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Crystal Castles
Cure, The
Cursive
Cut Copy
Cymbals Eat Guitars

Damien Rice
Dan Auerbach
Dan Deacon
Dananananaykroyd
David Bowie
David Byrne and Brian Eno
Dead Man's Bones
Deastro
Decemberists, The
Deer Tick
Deerhunter
Department of Eagles
Derek Trucks Band, The
Dinosaur Jr.
Dion (& the Belmonts)
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Three
Dispatch
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
DOOM
Dr. Dog
Drive by Truckers
Dzyan

Editors
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Eels
El Ten Eleven
Elbow
Elliott Brood
Elvis Costello
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Emmy the Great
Ennio Morricone
Explosions in the Sky

Fanfarlo
Feist
Fever Ray
Fleet Foxes
Foals
Foreign Born
Four Tet
Franz Ferdinand
Freelance Whales
Friends of Dean Martinez
Frightened Rabbit
Fucked Up

Gaslight Anthem, The
Girl Talk
Glen Phillips
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Goldfrapp
Grandaddy
Great Lake Swimmers
Grizzly Bear
Guster
GZA/Genius

Handsome Furs
HEALTH
Heartless Bastards
Helio Sequence
Hercules and Love Affair
Hold Steady, The
Holy Fuck
Horrors, The
Howling Bells

Interpol
Iron & Wine
Isis

James Brown
James Taylor
Japandroids
Jape
Jason Lytle
Jeff Buckley
Jenny Lewis
Jenny Wilson
Jens Lekman
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jessica Lea Mayfield
John Butler Trio
Jonathan Rice
Jose Gonzalez
Joy Division
Julian Plenti

K'naan
Kaiser Chiefs
Kathleen Edwards
Kent
Kid Koala
Kings of Leon, The
Knux, The
Kronos Quartet

Langhorne Slim
Laura Gibson
Lisa Hannigan
Los Campesino!
Love Language, The
Low Anthem, The
Lucinda Williams
Lykke Li

M. Ward
M83
Magnolia Electric Co.
Maps and Atlases
Maserati
Mastodon
Mates of State
Matt & Kim
Max Richter
Megafaun
Mercury Program, The
Metric
MGMT
Mirah
Mogwai
Mono
Mos Def
Most Serene Republic, The
Mountain Goats, The
My Morning Jacket

National, The
Neko Case
New Pornographers, The
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
No Age
Noah and the Whale
Norah Jones

Of Montreal
Okkervil River
Old Crow Medicine Show
Otis Redding

Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The
Paper Route
Patrick Watson
Patty Griffin
Phoenix
Pink Mountaintops
Pomegranates
Pop Will Eat Itself
Portishead

Q-Tip

R.E.M.
Ra Ra Riot
Rachel's
Radiohead
Raekwon
Raphael Saadiq
Ray LaMontagne
Red Hot Chile Peppers
Red House Painters
Red Sparrows
Regina Spektor
Riceboy Sleeps
Rilo Kiley
Roots, The
Russian Circles
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
RZA/Bobby Digital

Santigold
She & Him
Shearwater
Shins, The
Sigur Ros
Six Parts Seven, The
Smiths, The
Sonic Youth
Spoon
Spoon
St. Vincent
Sufjan Stevens
Sun Kil Moon
Sunset Rubdown
Surfer Blood
Swan Lake
Swell Season, The

Thieves Like Us
Throw Me the Statue
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Tom Waits
Tool
TV on the Radio

Vampire Weekend
Van Morrison
Volcano Choir

Walkmen, The
Wavves
We Are Scientists
Whiskeytown
White Rabbits
Why?
Wilco
Wild Beast
Wolf Parade
Wooden Sky, The
Wye Oak

xx, The

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo

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