Any good new music out there?

[2bfree]

I've been listening to the new Jimmy Buffett CD and am really enjoying it. I also heard the new Dylan CD, Modern Times at Starbucks today and now am wanting to snag that one as well. What else is out there?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Sams Town--The Killers

I love this group, love this CD. :hi:

[bif]

2. As Tall As Lions

Good new rock group. A bit of an edge, nice vocals.

[mvd]

3. Many of my favorite albums of 2006

Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
The Corrs - Home
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Damone - Out Here All Night
Leigh Nash - Blue On Blue
Thea Gilmore - Harpo's Ghost
Jennifer O'Connor - Over The Mountain
Neil Young - Living With War
The Veronicas - The Secret Life Of The Veronicas
Lillix - Inside The Holow
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
The Weepies - Say I Am You
Hem - Funnel Cloud
Stefy - The Orange Album
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Libby Johnson - Annabella
Elton John - The Captain And The Kid
The Lemonheads - self-titled
Margot & Nuclear So & So's - Dust of Retreat
Josh Ritter - Animal Years
Cat Power - The Greatest
Pete Yorn - Nightcrawer
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Mindy Smith - Long Island Shores
Susan Cagle - The Subway Recordings
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Some Girls - Crushing Love
Ingrid Michaelson - Girls & Boys
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
Pearl Jam - self-titled
Holly Brook - Like Blood Like Honey
Guster - Ganging Up On The Sun
Amy Millan - Honey From The Tombs
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Pink - I'm Not Dead
Allison Moorer - Getting Somewhere
Gomez - How We Operate
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Dirtie Blonde - self-titled
Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Paul Simon - Surprise
Ane Brun - A Tempoary Dive
Sonya Kitchell - Words Came Back To Me
Sister Hazel - Absolutely
Evanescence - The Open Door
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty
Taylor Swift - self-titled
Julie Roberts - Men & Mascara

Haven't heard all of these yet, but they sound great:

Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Vince Gill - These Days
Indigo Girls - Despite Our Differences
Lisa Palleschi - Released
Ellery - Lying Awake
Veruca Salt - IV
Catie Curtis - Long Night Moon
Butch Walker - Butch Walker and the Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites
Puffy AmiYumi - Splurge
Kasey Chambers - Carnival
The Randies - Saw The Light
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
Robyn Hitchcock - Ole! Trantula
Miss Derringer - Lullabies
Tara Jane O'Neil - In Circles
The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain

BTW, I'll be buying that Jimmy Buffett. :hi:

[mvd]

4. BTW

I could list more if you want - I always leave out someone on big lists like this.

Couple more notes:

Ana Johnnson's latest album definitely sounds like an improvement over her first CD, but it's hard to get right now - it's available at amazon's UK website.

I recommend Sam's Town by the Killers even though it isn't quite in the A range. Same with TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain.

I second bif's recommendation, from what I heard

Some others that I tried and liked so far: M Ward, Alan Jackson's Like Red On A Rose, The Long Winters

[bif]

5. Dude, your lists are overwhelming!

[mvd]

6. Hehe

Well, it gives a lot to try out. And there's bound to be something for most listeners. :-)

[blitzen]

7. Slaid Cleaves--Unsung

[SteppingRazor]

8. My Top 10 -- thus far -- of 2006.

In no particular order:

Whatever People Say I am, That’s what I’m not by Arctic Monkeys

You in Reverse by Built to Spill

Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case

Pick a Bigger Weapon by The Coup

The Boxing Mirror by Alejandro Escovedo

Pearl Jam by Pearl Jam

Living With War by Neil Young

Savane by Ali Farka Toure

Modern Times by Bob Dylan

Game Theory by The Roots

I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass by Yo La Tengo



Added an extra one to make it a Top 11, in honor of Spinal Tap

[mvd]

9. I'm going to try to cut mine to 20 at the year's end

With many honorable mentions. It's going to be hard for me to cut it down this year.

[SteppingRazor]

10. Amazingly, half of my top 10 isn't in your above list...

the beauty of subjectivity, eh? :hi:

[mvd]

11. Pretty good ratio, though, I'd say

Considering how subjective music is. :hi: