Thread: Who are you favourite active singers/bands at the moment

I know there have been many great singers and bands in the past that many of you still listen to today, I know I do. But I'm curious to know which present day bands/ singers/rappers are your favourite. Here are a few of mine to start off with

Keane
Red Hot Chili Peppers
R Kelly (purely for his soul train 2010 performance)
One Republic
Cee Lo Green
Alicia Keys

I think Mastodon have done some truly creative things since Blood Mountain came out. They're pretty much proving that Metal doesn't just have to be a bunch of shouting over repetitive, uninspired riffs. They're definitely one of my favourite bands at the moment; although their latest release has been a struggle, for me. This tune ain't too bad, though:



Muse are another band that just do things a bit differently . . . at least, they used to. Origin of Symmetry and Absolution are incredibly rich and diverse albums, sonically. No two songs sound alike (Origin). They can encapsulate all the grandiosity of something like 2001: A Space Odyssey into a single song without it sounding restricted. Matt Bellamy's voice really is beautiful as well, I think.



Their latest album was terrible, despite the lovely three-part symphony at the end.

I can't think of any more to be honest. Kasabian aren't bad; Arcade Fire are releasing some good stuff; Elbow, whilst not my kind of thing, have a lot of heart in their music.

Bands in order alphabetical:
A Hope For Home; A Plea For Purging; The Almost; Anberlin; As Cities Burn; As Hell Retreats; As I Lay Dying; The Ascendicate; August Burns Red; Becoming the Archetype; Before Their Eyes; Blessthefall; Burden of A Day; Call To Preserve; Close Your Eyes; Creations; Day of Fire; Dead Poetic; Decyfer Down; Demon Hunter; Disciple; Ember; Emery; Even the Dogs; Falling Up; Fireflight; For All Eternity; For Today; Gideon; The Great Commission; Hands; Haste the Day; Hawk Nelson; Here I Come Falling; Hope For the Dying; I Am Empire; Impending Doom; In the Midst of Lions; Inhale Exhale; Ivoryline; Jonah33; Kutless; The Letter Black; Letter To the Exiles; Living Sacrifice; Monday Morning; My Epic; Mychildren Mybride; The Myriad; Oh, Sleeper; Onward To Olympas; Overcome; Payable On Death; Pillar; Project 86; Red; Relient K; Run Kid Run; Secret & Whisper; See the Light; Sent By Ravens; The Showdown; Since October; Skillet; Sleeping Giant; Tait; Thousand Foot Krutch; To Speak of Wolves; Trenches; Underoath; War of Ages; Write This Down

And then there's film and video game composers:
John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Jeremy Soule, Alexandre Desplat, Nicholas Hooper, Bear McCreary, Patrick Doyle, Russel Brower, Derek Duke, Matt Uelman, Jason Graves, Yoko Shimomura, Jeremy Zuckerman, Kevin Reipl, Steve Jablonksy, Ramin Djawadi, Bobby Prince, and Kevin Schilder.

James Morrison
Billy joel
Bruce springsteen
David Grey
Jack savoretti
Jack johnson
Joe Jackson
Sean Mullins
Isley brothers
Julian joachim
Melody Gardot
Sea sick steve
U2
One republic
Bryan adams

Grupo Azteca my present favourite.

Chili Peppers – iffy without John Frusciante.
Avett Brothers
AA Bondy – awesome songwriter – should be famous!
Arctic Monkeys
The Black Keys
My Morning Jacket
Pearl Jam – still putting out good tunes.
Arcade Fire
Spoon
The Shins

To name a few…

What the airplane woulda been if they'd gone prog instead of pop.

Brilliant instrumental work.
The band had a lot of problems and didn't go as far as they might have given the personnel. I had two of their albums back in the day but had all but forgotten them. Found one of their videos while looking up something else (I forget what-that task went undone) and was enthralled to find out that most of the original lineup is together again (and they sound fantastic-as is evidenced by this vid from a couple of years ago):

I understand that they're going to tour the States next year. I hope to see them.

If I had to pick one it would be OneRepublic.

I saw OneRepublic in concert last year, they were the warm up act on before James morrison it was a fab night.

I listen to quite a lot of different stuff. Mostly rock based stuff, heavy metal and punk. Lately I've been listening to lots of Frank Turner, Thrice, Unearth, Evergreen Terrace, Springsteen, City and Colour, Deftones.