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I've been hacking into everyones drives!
Just hunted down the stuff you listed!
Jeez you work fast! How much music do you actually buy? I'm still old-school, and try to buy CD's directly off artists' websites, figuring they get a better cut that way. I also buy CD's off CD Baby (higher share to artists), and recently have started buying Hi-Rez downloads from symphony orchestras. I think I'm only good for about 6-10 new LP's or CD's per month, but I listen to them intensely!
Usually I get all reflective at the end of the year and make a list of the best new artists I've heard this year. But the question of what is best music for LCD's translates to "what is best music" since most of us don't discriminate just for listening with cans. I guess I'd say I listen to a lot more intimate music with headphones, but that's mostly cuz I'm wearing them while working. After work hours I just switch to speakers (Maggies as you know) and blast out the big orchestral stuff until I get all the bad stuff out of my system.
My best of new-to-me music lists for the past few years was...
* Aaron Neville (a surprise to me, not a genre I listen to much)
* Arcade Fire (again not my thing, but liked the grammy winning album)
* Broken Bells (ditto)
* Danielle Doyle -- loved her voice, but songs are pretty trivial. She was fun live in concert
* Putamaya - Acoustic Africa
* Rolf Lislevand - Diminuito was fantastic--a grand baroque rip, but didn't like the album that followed this Nuevo Musica.
* Girlyman -- great harmonies, but after a while I feel like I need to wash my hands. maybe a guilty pleasure
* Po'Girl -- again really great as a live act, but some of the CD's are uneven. Really like "Vagabond Lullabies" hated "Deer in the Night"
* Laurie Lieberman -- fun in person, but most of her music is badly recorded
* Wailin' Jennies -- great harmonies and very good musicianship
* Feist -- great pop-y fun, and fun to see in concert
* Richard Bona -- did you realize he's a music professor at NYU or something now?
* Orla Fallon -- great voice, traditional Celtic
* Lyle Lovett -- everything, but especially Pontiac, It's Not Big It's Large, etc.
* The Subdudes -- great New Orleans party band, especially some of their live albums eg Live at Last
* you already mentioned many of my staples, like Greg Brown, Black Dub, etc.
* how about James McMurtry & the Heartless Bastards? Especially "Childish Things" and "Just Us Kids"
* Crooked Still? Saw them in concert this week. Have three of their CD's
* The Duhks -- fun canadian band, but they've switched lead singers and I preferred the earlier one
* Ollabelle -- another fun group in concert, similar style to Crooked Still, but maybe more eclectic
* Hem is another of these roots groups, fun and the lead singer is great (Sally Elliason?)
* Rachael Yamagata is one of my all-time favorites. Loved "elephants"
* Similarly smitten by Keri Noble, very vulnerable sounding, like especially "Fearless" and "When it Don't Come Easy" CD's
* Ruthie Foster is great fun in concert. Her CD "Stages" is a fav
* Eddie from Ohio -- have all their CD's. Again, a fun group in concert! Esp. "Portable EFO Show" or "Three Rooms"
* then there's all the C&W stuff, like Alison Krauss, but I'm getting tired of typing.
Maybe this will take you a bit longer to digest?
Take a listen @ 3:05 and onwards.
