New Music (bands that started this century)

Caspian
Jason Isbell
The Hold Steady

 

Omnia is a self-described "neoceltic pagan folk" band based in the Netherlands and whose members over the years have had Irish, Dutch, Cornish, Belgian, Indonesian and Persian backgrounds.

 

Recent-ish favorites: Grouper, Sunflower Bean, Julianna Barwick, the Black Ryder, Brightblack Morning Light. I also enjoy Jim Jarmusch's band SQURL's soundtrack work for his films, and the soundtracks to "Only Lovers Left Alive" and "Paterson" are excellent.

2001 seems like a lifetime ago. I was very into the first Black Rebel Motorcycle Club album and Doves (who may have come out at the tail end of the '90's but I first saw them in early 2001 with unsigned New York dudes The Strokes opening) but I don't spin them much lately.

 

One-Eyed Doll is a goth punk duo based in Austin, Texas.

 

Shireen, enigmatic Witchpop from the Netherlands.

 

The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian folk music group formed in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their influences include folk, country, and bluegrass.

 

The Builders and The Butchers are a Folk Rock band based in Portland, Oregon.

 

The Cave Singers is an American indie folk band from Seattle, Washington.

 

The Dollyrots are an American pop punk band formed in 2000, composed of wife Kelly Ogden (bass, lead vocals) and husband Luis Cabezas (guitar, backing vocals).

 

The Record Company is a Grammy nominated American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

 

The Used is an American alternative rock band formed in Orem, Utah, in 2001.

 

Puscifer is an American rock group formed in Los Angeles by Maynard James Keenan, known as the lead singer of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle.

 

from the sounds of that, you'd love 80's~ SPARKS

 

Just a couple of bands from my own collection:

• Kaleo
• Red
• The Parlor Mob
• The Silent Comedy
• Madina Lake
• Three Legged Fox
• The Sheepdogs

 

There is no way I'm listing the hundreds and hundreds of post-2000 bands I've listened to over the past 18 years. But here are the "debuting in 2000-2018" artists who released records in 2017 or 2018 that I bought.

2000 -- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Linus of Hollywood, Mirah, The New Pornographers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Josh Ritter, Sufjan Stevens
2001 -- Brand New, Lucero, The National, The Shins
2002 -- The Coral, The Decemberists, Chris Forsyth, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Tift Merritt, The Raveonettes, Max Richter
2003 -- British Sea Power, Matt Mays, Metric
2004 -- Mount Eerie
2005 -- BC Camplight, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Heartless Bastards (& Erika Wennerstrom), Eilen Jewell, Wolf Parade
2006 -- The Black Angels, Ian Felice, The Fratellis, Frightened Rabbit (RIP Scott), Joan As Police Woman, Jack Ladder, The Low Anthem, Thee Oh Sees,
2007 -- Chancha Via Circuito, Deer Tick, Jesca Hoop, Jason Isbell, The Menzingers, Radical Face, Susanne Sundfor, Turnpike Troubadours
2008 -- Fleet Foxes, Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Lost Brothers, MGMT, John Moreland, Ty Segall, Titus Andronicus, Kurt Vile, The War on Drugs
2009 -- Dan Auerbach, Bambara, Beak>, Amen Dunes, Florence + the Machine, Rhiannon Giddens, Hiss Golden Messenger
2010 -- Car Seat Headrest, Caroline Rose, Cloud Nothings, Darlingside, Rose Elinor Dougall, First Aid Kit, Connan Mockasin, The Mynabirds, Molly Nilsson, Perfume Genius, Sea Pinks, The Soft Moon, Gin Wigmore
2011 -- Bernice, The Barr Brothers, Biters, Hollie Cook, Elder, James Elkington, Kendrick Lamar, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Low Cut Connie, Lowland Hum, Mega Bog, Moonface, Angel Olsen, Waters
2012 -- Father John Misty, Foxygen, Lilly Hiatt, IDLES, Lomelda, Lord Huron, Mitski, Muncie Girls, Pallbearer, Joan Shelley, Shovels & Rope, Waxahatchee
2013 -- All Them Witches, Courtney Barnett, Hop Along, Houndmouth, La Luz, Lorde, Tony Molina, Kevin Morby, Public Service Broadcasting, Nadine Shah, Sorority Noise, Stick in the Wheel, The Strypes, Vundabar
2014 -- Alvvays, Birdmask, Bleachers, Benjamin Booker, Anna Burch, Liz Cooper & the Stampede, Eyelids, Martha, Israel Nash, Priests, Protomartyr, The Rails, Royal Blood, Say Sue Me, Sierpien, Slothrust, Sylvan Esso, Kamasi Washington, White Reaper
2015 -- Dilly Dally, EZTV, Jake Xerxes Fussell, In Tall Buildings, Nap Eyes, Nervous Dater, Shilpa Ray, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Chris Stapleton, Vital Idles
2016 -- Big Thief, Kadhja Bonet, Alex Cameron, Camp Cope, The Chats, The Comet Is Coming, Connections, Kyle Craft, Lucy Dacus, The Goon Sax, Hurry, The Lemon Twigs, Madonnatron, Pinegrove, Psychic Lemon, Public Access T.V., Small Million, Snail Mail, Spanish Love Songs, Sunflower Bean, The War and Treaty, Marlon Williams
2017 -- Bedouine, The Big Moon, Phoebe Bridgers, Charly Bliss, Cigarettes After Sex, Colour Me Wednesday, The Cowboys, Crooked Bangs, Cut Worms, Deaf Poets, Dream Machine, Robert Finley, Seamus Fogarty, Ruby Force, Ron Gallo, Hotel Lux, Jade Bird, Ruston Kelly, L.A. Witch, Annabel Lee, The Love-Birds, The Lunar Laugh, The Moonlandingz, Mt. Joy, Naked Giants, Offa Rex, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, The Regrettes, Sheer Mag, Sorry, Telephone Lovers, Colter Wall, Wild Pink, Alex Williams, Zeal & Ardor
2018 -- The Beths, Buck Meek, Candace (band), Frigs, I'm With Her, Goat Girl, Hatchie, Jealous of the Birds, Jeremy & the Harlequins, Lo Moon, Mastersystem, The Nude Party, Olden Yolk, Painted Doll, Shame, Sun June, Thunderp***y, Tomberlin, Warm Drag

 

I do indeed! In fact, it's thanks to Sparks that I even know about Mini Mansions. Mini Mansions have been serving as Sparks' backing band on the recent Hippopotamus tour.

 

ha, they really do sound like kindred spirits.

first thing I thought of from the vid you posted was

 

The only New band I can think of is Youth Fountain

 

“New” bands from potentially 18 years ago??? That’s like calling Abby Road and Appetite for Destruction Lps from the same era? The Mars Volta have released their debut, 6 other Lps, split and all transitioned from their 20’s to their 40’s in this time! That’s a heck of a long time in the music business. If modern day teenagers weren’t even born when something was released it’s not new music, it’s an oldie!

 

Chvrches
The War on Drugs
Big Thief
Arcade Fire
Kurt Vile
Ryan Adams
Courtney Barnett
Alabama Shakes
The National
The Decembrists
First Aid Kit
The Shins
Lord Huron
Beach House
Carseat Headrest

 

I'm old school...apparently, very old school. Only three artists in my collection who made a name for themselves in this millennium. Norah Jones (2002), Vintage Trouble (2011), and now one of my favorites- Robert Randolph and the Family Band (2002).

 

This is true. If a band's debut album came out before 2014 I'd have a hard time calling them "new" anymore. I'd actually say new probably means 2016 and beyond.

Arcade Fire, Halestorm, The National and Beach House aren't new artists. They're virtually old artists at this point, having probably now released their most popular material. It's nearly the 2020s.

Or, put it this way: Arcade Fire's Funeral was released in 2004. That's 14 years ago. That's like calling M.C. Hammer a new artist in 2004, or Queen a new artist in 1990, or The Beatles a new artist in 1976. 14 years is a long time.

This thread would have probably been better served saying "bands that started after 2010".

 

I guess there's also a point, though, that new music can take a while to filter through to people that aren't on the pulse of new music? Someone like CHVRCHES or Dilly Dally or Soccer Mommy could seem new and exciting today to somebody that isn't really listening to lots of new stuff, they might stumble across it by chance or get a recommendation or listen to their Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. Whereas for those of us that are highly invested in new music, they're bands we've known about for a while.

 

Yes, but there are literally people on this forum who mean Nirvana and Guns n Roses when they're talking about "new music." There is a sizeable contingent on this forum who genuinely don't listen to anything release after they graduated from high school, and at least one who claimed with complete seriousness that rock music ended around 1979.

 

My favorite - 2010 - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard