Help me find some new music

[Broch]

Please help me find some new music!

OK, I like to think I’ve got reasonably broad tastes in music but I’m struggling to find some new stuff that I can appreciate. I like a wide range of stuff by a very broad list of artists but I find so much of the current stuff winey love/loss-of-love drivel whether it’s male or female vocals. Also, I can’t listen to rap or similar, sorry.

So, what do I like? Well plenty of old stuff: Fleetwood Mac – especially the early blues, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and so on; less old but dated Stereophonics, Texas, Muse, Massive attack, Faithless; and even some newer stuff like Sea Sick Steve, Hot Club of Cowtown, Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, Caravan Palace and other ‘techno/electro-swing’.

I’m struggling to find any new stuff that I can actually listen to as opposed to just have on in the background. Good, skilful instrumentals with or without meaningful lyrics, or upbeat tap your foot to .... what's out there?

Any ideas?

 

[FerlasDave]

First aid kit
The zac brown band
Florence and the machine
Oliver Anthony music

…That’s probably most of the modern music I like that isn’t country.

 

[GNJC]

 

[Souledman]

 

[Broch]

Sorry, should have said, I'm not after more of the old stuff, I want new or more recent musicians

 

[Broch]

Oooh, quite like that - I'll dig further

 

[GNJC]

Sorry, should have said, I'm not after more of the old stuff, I want new or more recent musicians

When you've received a fair number of suggestions and have listened to them, please let us know if anything stood as very good.

 

[TeeDee]

John Moreland.

https://www.youtube.com/@JMBGB

 

[lostplanet]

The Black Keys
Larkin Poe
my OH loves teddy swims
bit darker: The black angels

 

[Broch]

Wow, some great suggestions already, thanks. The missus is in bed asleep (just out of hospital) so I'll have to wait before listening to them at sensible volumes

 

[MikeLA]

Even teenagers prefer to listen to our old stuff because their modern choice is limited. I often hear my two teenagers listened to 70’s and 80’s music.

 

[Robbi]

Check out Joy Crooks for some good sounds... Enjoy

 

[TLM]

Try Polyphia.

 

[Imagedude]

Daddy Long Legs
The Chats
Rev Peyton
Ming City Rockers

 

[Jared]

Just noticed Caravan Palace going on a tour next year

Architects
Pure Reason Revolution
Tides of Nebula
We Made God
Public Service Broadcasting

 

[bobnewboy]

Try Polyphia.

This. Shocking at first but their virtuosity shines out. The more you listen, the more it sucks you in.

 

[dwardo]

When you are stuck for choice go through all the NPR tiny desk winners and specials. oddly I often love a featured artist NPR performance but not their other stuff. Lately its the flaming lips, Grandaddy and for something completely new check out "Ren", first thing I had heard in years that jumped out and grabbed my ear, especially this

 

[crosslandkelly]

 

[Kepis]

Voiceplay - an eclectic mix of stuff from Valhalla Calling to I'm Too Sexy and loads of stuff in between.

VoicePlay

Original. Imaginative. Ridiculous. A Cappella. Formed in Orlando, Florida, the five singers of VoicePlay create amazing harmony and inventive re-imaginings of popular music with nothing but their voices. The guys have appeared on multiple national tours, nationally syndicated television and...

music.youtube.com

 

[Jared]

When you are stuck for choice go through all the NPR tiny desk winners and specials. oddly I often love a featured artist NPR performance but not their other stuff. Lately its the flaming lips, Grandaddy and for something completely new check out "Ren", first thing I had heard in years that jumped out and grabbed my ear, especially this

His band, The Big Push was pretty good too. They had to split as Ren had to go to Canada for treatment for lymes disease.