New Music (bands that started this century)

Ghost, Blackberry Smoke, Temperance Movement, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Dirty Sweet

 

Little Barrie
The Wooden Shjips
Moon Duo
Man Man

 

Beak>
Black Ryder
Tamaryn (especially the first two albums)

 

Well, let's see

• Adam Ben Ezra
• Alfa Mist
• Aloe Blacc
• Amber Rubarth
• Aubrie Sellers
• Benjamin Booker
• Billy Strings
• Bruno Mars
• The Cactus Blossoms
• Chris Stapleton
• Cody Jinks
• Courtney Barnett
• Curtis Harding

The majority of these are from this current decade. I gave up when I got to the "D's" as I could see that this was going to get to be a very large list and that is without looking at the previous decade to be able to include all of this century. Tons of really good new artists to go along with the music I grew up on in the 60's and 70's.

 

Sarah Jarosz. Started in 2009.

 

Parquet Courts
Ty Segall
Shame
Bully
Shabazz Palaces

 

Hundreds. Far too many to list. Anyone who claims "there's no good music anymore" is just saying "I can't be bothered to listen to new music anymore."

 

I may be in the same situation. Probably just the tip of the iceberg but

2001 Arcade Fire, De Rosa, Minus the Bear
2002 Editors, The Whigs, Grizzly Bear
2003 Frightened Rabbit, Great Lake Swimmers, Heartless Bastards, Meek Mill, Kendrick Lamar, Animal Collective, Ninet
2004 Beach House, Blood Orange, Warpaint, Manchester Orchestra
2005 Tinie Tempah, The xx, Childish Gambino, Ingrid Michaelson, Hop Along
2006 Wye Oak, Jenny Hval, tUnE-yArDs. Fleet Foxes, Lissie, Vampire Weekend, Bat For Lashes, Crystal Castles, Bon Iver, Yeasayer
2007 The Joy Formidable, Ezra Furman, Alt-J, Phantogram, Com Truise, Big Sean, J. Cole
2008 Lydia Loveless
2009 SOPHIE, Cloud Nothings, Angel Olsen. Anderson Paak, The Dunwells, Surfer Blood, Grouplove
2010 Death Grips, Hookworms, The Weeknd, Waxahatchee, Alex Clare, NF, Cults, BADBADNOTGOOD, Daughter, Joywave, Lord Huron
2011 Alvvays, DIIV, Savages, Chvrches, Chance the Rapper
2012 Mitski, Ho99o9
2013 Run The Jewels
2014 Heron Oblivion
2015 Camp Cope, Lala Lala, Soccer Mommy, Pfarmers
2017 Superorganism
2018 KIDS SEE GHOSTS [cheating a bit]

 

It's hard for me to do that sort of list because I'm someone that listens to lots of bands sometimes rather than a few bands a lot, but of my Last.fm Top 100 for 2018 so far, this is the bands that started in 2000 and beyond. I've bolded the ones that started in 2010 or later.

Agent blå
Amber Arcades
Anna of the North
Artificial Pleasure
Blood Red Shoes
Chelsea Wolfe
Chain Wallet
CHVRCHES
Clean Cut Kid
Cold Beat
The Courtneys
Dead Naked Hippies
Destroy Boys
Dolores Haze
Dream Rimmy
Dream Wife
Drenge
The Drums
Dum Dum Girls
Editors
Eternal Summers
FEHM
Fickle Friends
Fiordmoss
Fishbach
Florence + the Machine
Franz Ferdinand
Grimes
Gurr
HAIM
The Hanged Man
Have You Ever Seen the Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?
Hibou
Holy Now
Honeyblood
Jaws
Jennie Abrahamson
Kid Wave
Kindling
Kitten
Kristin Kontrol
Ladyhawke
The Libertines
Magic Wands
Mating Ritual
Maxïmo Park
Nightmare Air
No Joy
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Pale Honey
Paramore
PINS
Pixx
Preoccupations
Royal Blood
Saltwater Sun
San Fermin
Seapony
Sibille Attar
Silversun Pickups
Soviet X-Ray Record Club
Still Corners
Tamaryn
Thyla
Tove Styrke
The Used
The Van T's
Vanilla Ninja
Veronica Falls
White Lies
White Room
Wild Nothing
Wild Ones
Yumi and the Weather

74/100, and that's in a year in which I actively aimed to explore some older music and genres as well. Not 100% of these artists are ones I'd recommend as great and there's some nostalgia in there too, but I have no doubt that this is as good a decade as any for music.

 

I really enjoy
Elder
Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats
Ghost
Electric Wizard
Gorillaz
Black Country Communion
Rival Sons
Alabama Shakes

 

Soccer Mommy. Started in 2015.

 

Big Thief!

 

FINALLY! A fellow non-mainstream weirdo! I've never even heard of 99% of the band names on this thread.

Although the Wizard started in the 90's, Zoot. I really tried with ELDER but as with so much doom metal the vocals were just a deal breaker. As with THOU. And KHANATE. And CORRUPTED.

 

Well I counted them and Gorillaz since their first albums came out in the early 2000s.

 

Way too many great bands over the last couple decades to try and cover in one post or thread, just this year alone has seen some great discoveries (thinking the amazing new album from Maarja Nuut & Ruum in particular), so just picking one to recommend from a huge list, I'll go with Melanie De Biasio No Deal, one of the best sounding modern records I've heard. Not exactly rock, maybe more jazz, but with some of the same dark atmosphere that framed the later Talk Talk records, and the Mark Hollis solo, but with the ghost of Billie Holiday on lead vocals. Really beautiful record from any angle, highly recommended.

 

Marsheaux, 2004
To The End, 2013

 

The Red Elastic Band are a new group, not young members though, but they are FANTASTIC

For those who like young peoples hipster punk grunge, check out new young London band, Human Pet

 

Rotersand as a band debut-2003, Rasc and Krischan had been in earlier projects as I see some of the bands listed have as well
I Cry (Rework), 2008

 

State of The Union-2002
Nothing At All, 2008

 

Ski Lodge, 2011
Trust, 2015

 

Lovers Electric, 2005/06
Dangerous Games, 2015

 

Hospital, 2011
Come Closer, 2014

 

The Hospitals
Richard Dawson
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Ariel Pink. (First album was self-released 1999, so I will count him)

 

Two from the 21st century jazz spectrum:

Dinosaur
Ezra Collective

Recommended!

 

Small Black, 2009
Free At Dawn, 2013