Jenny Lewis was asking people what the best band of the last 30 years is, but covering half the 90s threw me, so now I’m thinking:
what is the best band from 2000-now. the best band that released their first album post-‘99.
what is the best band from 2000-now. the best band that released their first album post-‘99.
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January 1979
Mexican War Streets
Those are all good places to start. I’d recommend In a Sweater Poorly Knit, but that’s probably too on the nose for me.
Turnpike Troubadours.
best post 2010: The Beths, Saor, Martha.
Protomartyr
Priests
So Stressed
Pissed Jeans
Life Without Buildings
Alt-J
Royal Blood
Highly Suspect
Great first album: Dogrel
Released in 2019
I wanted to say Glossary at first, but I was forgetting their debut album in 1998.
The Strokes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Arcade Fire
RTJ
Kendrick
Hot Chip
The War on Drugs
Deafheaven
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Japandroids
Paramore
Turnstile
The Killers
Haim
Charly Bliss
Camp Cope
Xiu Xiu
Black Country, New Road
Gorillaz (If that counts)
of Montreal
Black Midi/Geordie Greep & The New Sound
There’s no such thing as a gentle toke
There’s no such thing as panama jack
Who’s got the crack? Who’s got the crack?
Who’s got the crack? Who’s got the crack?
Though, Phoebe Bridgers has released a fairly staggering number of great songs in a really brief period of time, and she could end up somewhere really special.
(My god, Neko belting "Where have all sensations gone?" - chills, every time)
Baroness
Local Natives
The Stills
The Mars Volta
Lovedrug
Manchester Orchestra
Silversun Pickups
The Strokes
Arcade Fire
I think 2010 was the last era of music. Most everything that follows is synthetic.
Or maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not ashamed to admit that
Big Thief
AC Newman is a great song writer. There's nothing exciting about them anymore though
Voice of Baceprot
Wolfmother
Arctic Monkeys
Audioslave
Polyphia
UK band - Green Lung
Swedish Band - Ghost
you hear about the mars Volta doc that comes out today
Personal favorite: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Honorable Mentions: Red Fang, Ted Leo + Pharms, Blitzen Trapper, Blind Pilot, Iron & Wine, really too many to list
30 years would have been so much more accommodating
we could have all just agreed that its modest mouse
Since 2000: Band-Maid? They're only 10... the Telecomm Act of '96 made the 00s a shitshow 😩
Helvetia
Good Morning
No bad songs, last 4 albums all fantastic. So many b-sides and rarities and Owl John is essentially another FR album.
japanese breakfast
the strokes
the xx
100 gecs?
the national
lcd sound system
I really liked your mwy pick.
Menzingers was another one
Thrice also crossed my mind.
Pretty much all mainstream but I love all of these bands discographies more than any band starting after 99.