HIStalk “Listening:” Bands

This isn’t a complete list of the bands I’ve recommended, but it’s a good sampler.

30 Seconds to Mars
AC/DC
A Cursive Memory
After Forever
Airbourne
Alice Cooper
American Hi-Fi
Amorphis
Anberlin
Andromeda
Anvil
Asia
B52s
Band Marino
Beatnik Termites
Beatsteaks
Ben’s Brother
Biffy Clyro
Big Country
Big Star
Bikini Kill
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Sabbath
Blonde Redhead
Blue Stingrays
Brendan Benson
Broken Bells
Built to Spill
Camper Van Beethoven
Carolina
Catatonia
Catherine Wheel
Chevelle
Coheed and Cambria|
Cosmic Rough Riders
Crack the Skye
Crash Kelly
Crowded House
Crucified Barbara
Curved Air
Darkwell
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Dipsomaniacs
Dream Theater
Dungen
Eisley
Electric Light Orchestra
Electrocute
Entwine
Eskobar
Eveel Kaneeveel
Fastball
Fiction Family
Fine Young Cannibals
Flamin’ Groovies
Flo Rida
Garageland
Genesis
Get Set Go
Go Betty Go
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Grand Mal
Green Carnation
Guadalcanal Diary
Guster
H.I.M.
Hammers of Misfortune
Happiness Factor
Hard-Fi
Heavenly and the Softies
Hey Marseilles
Hole
Hoobastank
In This Moment
Interpol
Iron Maiden
James McMurtry
Jessica Prouty Band
Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights
Keane
Killola
King’s X
L7
Lady Ga Ga
Leaves’ Eyes
Luscious Jackson
Lyres
Maeder
Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
Marmalade
Material Issue
Megan McCauley
Metric
Michael McDermott
Midlake
Montrose
Muse
My Dying Bride
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nightwish
Nine Black Alps
Oasis
Operator
Ours
P.J. Harvey
Paper Tongues
Paramore
Patty Hurst Shifter
Pernice Brothers
Phish
Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Pink Martini
Pixies
Polara
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Queen
R.E.M.
Rachelle Ramm
Radio Birdman
Ride
Rise Against
Rush
Sam Phillips
Saosin
Saxon
Scarlet Storm
Seether
She and Him
Shinedown
Silversun Pickups
Sinch
Skarlet Blue
Sonata Arctica
Sprites
Starz
Stone Temple Pilots
Stream of Passion
Sunny Day Real Estate
Supergrass
Switches
Tarja
The Alarm
The Apparitions
The Apples in Stereo
The Aqua Velvets
The BellRays
The Charlatans
The Chocolate Watchband
The Clash
The Cliks
The Concretes
The Connells
The Czars
The Dictators
The Distillers
The Doors
The Duke Spirit
The Frost
The Gaslight Anthem
The High Dials
The Hives
The Hold Steady
The Kilaueas
The Like
The Love
The Magic Numbers
The Makers
The Melvins
The Muffs
The Neptunes
The New Pornographers
The Old Ceremony
The Oolahs
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Red Thread
The Smiths
The Sounds
The Swords
The Trash Can Sinatras
The Vincent Black Shadow
The Volebeats
The Who
The Young Veins
Tift Merritt
Tindersticks
Travis
Tsunami Bomb
UFO
Under the Flood
Union Carbide Productions
Uriah Heep
VAST
White Witch
Wolfmother
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zebrahead