New Music (bands that started this century)

You are absolutely correct.
However...considering how time seems to fly these days..... you may not feel the same when you are middleagesquid.

 

Agree, but taking forum content into account - Just happy to see 21st Century music at all.
Agree on Blossoms and St. Vincent.
Taking it from 2010, I'll add:

The Shelters (2015) Indie/Alternative Rock
The Struts (2009) - Glampop
K. Flay (2014) - Genre-blending (hip-hop, rap, rock..take Nine Inch Nails combine w/Lorde)
She's on Tom Morello's solo release Atlas Underground and Mike Shinoda solo Post Traumatic.
Odeza (2012) - Electronic/Chill
Rufus Du Sol (2010) - Dance
The Chainsmokers (2012) - Electropop

Cage The Elephant and even, Catfish and the Bottlemen formed earlier than 2010.

 

Breaks my heart to admit it, but the last "new" band or artist to impress me came out in the late 90's (Queens Of The Stone Age, The White Stripes)
(although I thought Amy Winehouse was good)

 

Although, I do not consider the year 2000(or 2000-2009), a Time Period of 'New' Music, Doves is my Favorite Music Artist who started out in 2000 or later, and had 4 Great Albums from 2000-2009:

Lost Souls
The Last Broadcast
Some Cities
Kingdom of Rust.

The 3 Members took a break after the 2009 release of 'Kingdom of Rust', although stayed active apart and about 4-5 years ago, the Williams Brothers formed a Band, Black Rivers to release one Album and Jimi Goodwin released one Album.

Q Magazine this Month had a feature about Expected Music in 2019 and included an Article on Doves 3 Members Reforming to work on a New Album finally, which has me Stoked, as they were better together, than apart(although their individual Albums were decent, something was just missing on both Albums).

Below is one of my Favorite Doves Songs that did not even make their Best of 2 CD/DVD Set(also included B-Sides).

 

Forgot to include these to my earlier post:

Highly Suspect (2009) - Hard Rock
Nothing But Thieves (2012) - Indie/Alternative
Saint Motel (2007) - Indie Pop
Mike Posner (2008) - Hip Hop/Electropop
Robert Delong (2010) - Electronic/House
The Blue Stones (2011) - Blues Rock
Bleeker (2016) - Alternative/Garage/Blues

Newest: Pretty Viscious (2018) - Britpop/Punk

There are VG+ new artists; it just becomes tougher to find b/c mass media push their own agendas.

 

I should've posted this video for Pretty Viscious
This is for people who don't think there's any more rock...there is!

And, 2014 - Creeper - Goth/Rock



I'm figuring this is place to put new music - for any, like me, seeking to discover some. That's a thirst that's never fully quenched and is fine w/me!
Means I'm still breathing & there's still more music...

 

I think we should shift the cutoff to "2010" for new music, and even that is pushing it.

 

You are probably right about pushing it, as in 1995, I would not have thought of an Album or Song from 1985 as 'New Music'. That would have been like saying in 1995, "How about that New Song, 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' I heard the other day on the Radio"?

Even the way most people consume Music has changed in the past 10 years, as Streaming is the Mainstream way to listen to Music now, but 10 Years ago, it was Downloads and 15 years ago, CDs were still popular even with iTunes having been around since 2000.

 

Right, 1985 and 1995 are worlds apart in terms of music. Even 1989 and 1992 were, in both rock and hip hop. Things might not move as fast now, but 10 years is still a lot.

CDs still sold pretty well even 10 years ago.

 

that's some good guitar rock there

 

Seriously?? JUST from this century???
Woo boy, in alphabetical order:
The Airborne Toxic Event
Arcade Fire
The Avett Brothers
Julien Baker
Band Of Horses
Bat For Lashes
Beach House
The Black Keys
Blood Orange
Bon Iver
Burial
Cage The Elephant
Car Seat Headrest
Eric Church
CHVRCHES
Gary Clark Jr.
Dua Lipa
Editors
Kathleen Edwards
Sky Ferreira
Fleet Foxes
Florence & The Machine
The Gaslight Anthem
Gotye
Grimes
Haim
The Hold Steady
Interpol
Japandroids
Carly Rae Jepsen
Killers
Kendrick Lamar
Ray Lamontagne
LCD Soundsystem
Local Natives
M83
MGMT
Janelle Monae
Kacey Musgraves
The National
Paramore
Phoenix
The Postal Service
Pusha T
Damien Rice
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Silversun Pickups
The Strokes
Sun Kil Moon
Vampire Weekend
The War On Drugs
The Weeknd

The fact that a lot of these bands are already broken up, disbanded, or culturally irrelevant should probably tell you something about a 19-year scope of music.

 

Richc -
Excellent list of some very very good bands/artists.

And having seen almost all of them in person, I can attest to their abilities to put on some great shows.

I would quickly add Phoenix and Beach House to the list. Especially the former - Phoenix has consistently released excellent and inventive albums for over 10 years.

Vampire Weekend has produced music that is superior to almost anything else for the past few decades.

 

My faves from your list above, I have seen many of these as well, all great performances for the most part

 

The Spring Standards. I adore this band. Wish they were more active, though. They seem to be branching off into other projects more and more over the past couple of years.

 

I wonder if some people here would have felt that, in 1979, describing releases from 1960 as "new music" would have been appropriate...

 

Carla Dal Forno is one of my favorite new artists, great debut album in 2016 ... Carla Dal Forno - "You Know What It's Like" (2016) ... and a couple EP gems since, especially the amazing The Garden, she has a new single out on her own new label, and hopefully a new full length later this year ...

 

The new French pop band Le SuperHomard is a lot of fun on their debut Meadow Lane Park, one of my favorite records so far this year, the song below sounding a bit like Stereolab ...

 

Why does it matter? How about just letting people post music without nitpicking it to death.

 

Guys,
There is no reason for me to try to put together a list based on the number of lists already in this thread. However, I have not seen my new favorite band on any of these lists.
If you haven’t heard/seen them I highly recommend Fruition from Portland. Formed in 2009 I think. 5 albums and a couple of EPs.
Kind of folk/rock (although I hate labels like that) with killer mandolin.
Jump in with the album “Labor of Love.
Enjoy.

 

Another fairly new band I love is The Left Outsides, their All That Remains record from last year was and continues to be a big favorite, one of the most striking album covers too. Alison's solo debut record last year is also a big favorite, but with more of an ambient drone sound. Below description from their bandcamp page ...

The Left Outsides are Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton, a husband and wife duo based in London, England whose atmospheric, hypnotic songs echo Nico's icy European folk, pastoral psychedelia and chilly English fields at dawn...




But most of these bands show up in the best new albums of the year threads, that's really the place to frequent and post if interested in new artists making good new music.

 

I think Coldplay qualify, since their first hit song was in 2000.

Of course they have pretty much dropped the ball with their last few albums, but for a short time I thought they were excellent.

Also, I believe I have mentioned Ned Collette and Wirewalker a number of times - they definitely qualify.

 

Kinda exactly my point.
I also used the illustration (in another thread, maybe?) that, by this metric, "new" music on the day Kurt Cobain died would include Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Frampton Comes Alive, and the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.

 

Both acts are already on my list??

I really like Phoenix but I've been disappointed with everything since Bankrupt.

 

But I would say that there were a much greater stylistic changes in popular music between 1960 and 1979 than any evolution that's taken place between 2000 and 2019.

Anyway, enough with the complaints about the term "new music". The OP made it quite clear that he is after acts of the 21st century, so let's just focus on that without stressing over whether they should be called "new".

 

since I started the thread in October, bugger-all new bands have entered my heavy rotation wheelhouse pantheon of greatness