Recommend new music to me. Here is what I like.

Right now I'm really big on bands like Thievery Corporation, Death in Vegas, and Goldfrapp.

I'm also a big fan of the Cocteau Twins, Smiths and artsy 4AD type stuff.

I'm looking for some similar stuff along these lines, and I trust people's judgment around here.

And I'm lazy. So help a brother out. Please.

Or you might like The Postal Service, though it's not technically new.

The Hidden Cameras are also immensely talented.

TFF is cool

TV on the Radio, Arab Strap, Low Skies, Adult., Mogwai, Air, Songs Ohia, Boards of Canada, The Magnetic Fields, ummm.... that's a good start.

I can go on if you wish.

:)

Yes, I dig Boards of Canada.

Keep going if you don't mind, I'm all ears...

If you like hip hop / dj stuff then you should check out Eyedea & Abilities...

But... let's see what else I can come up with...

Shiner
Wilco
Royksopp
The Reindeer Section
Iron & Wine
The Sea & Cake
Karate
Built to Spill
Secret Chiefs
Estratosphere
RJD2

All good. I promise.

Contemporary hip hop i'm not diggin too much, except for some of the more progressive hip hop artists a la Jurassic 5...

Similar bands/musicians,.. just to name a few are Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emporer!, Chicks on Speed, Magnetic Fields, Interpol, Stereolab, Labradford (very minimalist but beautiful), Fridge, um Yo La Tengo, ..... check some of these out and message me if you want more,.. I could give you pagese and pages of names - nothing like good music and bad politics huh?

A Silver Mt. Zion is excellent as well

Feel free to post as many as you want here. I'll bookmark this page.

a surreal experience - love the music - calming and sane
http://www.epitonic.com/artists/labradford.html

http://www.crni.net/Default.aspx?nid=3&date=11/10/2004&pid=1

http://www.webradiolist.com/

http://kuci.org/

http://www.wazee.org/

http://www.kexp.org/home.asp?noflash=false

http://www.somafm.com/recent/?indiepop

And THE BEST of THE NET http://www.woxy.com/

John Cale - Music for a New Society

The DiGiorno Project: A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse (Burroughs, Sonic Youth, etc. compilation)

Dead Can Dance

Anything by Luna

And recently, HoboSapiens by John Cale

I have liked Dead Can Dance for a long time now... though I have to be in the "mood."

On WOXY now

I just came from a website where an aqaintance posted a link to his kid's band. Here's a song and a link to the website.

I think it fits the new category, but can't tell if it's like the groups you mention, since I haven't heard of any of them. Here's a link to some music from my youth.

I love all you kids who are working so hard to help save the world. Your music is probably well worth listening to and I'm glad to have come across this thread.

My favorite is Dreamchild, a husband and wife team: he plays terrific guitar, she plays Celtic harp and sings magnificently, and they use loops and devices to sound like more than two people. They're somewhat comparable to Dead Can Dance with Adrian Belew sitting in, and their songs have distinct story lines. They've just finished recording their third CD and sent it out for mastering.

I also like another duo called Turkish Queen, a singer/songwriter who plays guitar, flute, accordion, banjo, keyboard and mandolin, and her boyfriend on bass or electric guitar. They're more like a lo-fi Throwing Muses, with a slight taste of exotica. They have a four song CD sampler out, but they've written dozens of (better) songs since.

Lotta duos in town. You might also like Dresden Dolls, very Brechtian cabaret in feel. It's a singer/pianist with dramatic vocal mannerisms (plus she had her eyebrows replaced with chiaroscuro tattoos) and a drummer.

I play bass for a guy named Tim Mungenast, who has two CDs out, in the Anglophile loonie experimentalist vein-- his heroes are people like Syd Barrett and Robyn Hitchcock (while I keep trying to push him more toward Richard Thompson or Robert Wyatt).

And if you like the Labradford or Tortoise instrumental "post-rock" stuff, you should definitely check out the band I used to play with, Cul de Sac. I played on (and paid half the bills for) the CD called Crashes to Light, Minutes to its Fall. I'm sinfully proud of it, to the point where if I really do have to convince somebody at a pearly gate that I'm worthy of Heaven, then I'm just gonna hand him that CD. If they don't like it in Heaven, I don't care to spend eternity with them anyway. Humph!

Cul De Sac is a splendid band name!

The founders were all art school types and cinema buffs. The guy I replaced is now a movie reviewer for the local alternative weekly.

The downside of this was, they didn't really know how to talk about the music in terms I was used to. When we worked out new tunes, the guitar player wouldn't be able to describe what he wanted, he just complained about whatever I did until I came up with something that he thought fit. That's an aspect of being in the band that I don't miss.

Miss Kitten's or LeTigre's new albums are fun for when I'm feeling a little frisky. }(