If you’re friends me with on Facebook, you might have seen a version of this before. However, this is a new updated version with 1000 artists, organized by genre, and I feel like it’s worth posting again. If you haven’t seen the Facebook note, then this list should be new to you, and it’s basically just a collection of my personal favorite artists- no objective grading or critiquing, just what I listen to as a fan of music. I've gotten a couple of requests for a new one, and I figured this was a bit easier to sort through, since you can now find bands in a specific genre instead of a massive alphabetized mob of information like the last one. If you want my recommendation for trip-hop, for example, just go to the trip-hop section and you'll find a list of my favorite trip-hop artists. I also don't want to debate genres. To make it easier on myself I used last.fm tags as a starting point, eliminated stupid genres (new wave, nu-metal, etc.) or ones with one artist (Johnny Cash in country), and edited for inaccuracies, so just in case someone wants to point out that such and such band isn't real black metal, just know that I'm not going to change it unless it's blatantly obvious or the band clearly fits better into another genre. Again, I'm not trying to say that these bands are better than others or anything like that. I’m just trying to help people find some new music to enjoy, and that's a big part of how I define myself as a critic. I thought this would be a different way for you guys to be introduced to some new bands.
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Blur
Butthole Surfers
Dinosaur Jr.
Gnarls Barkley
Gorillaz
Muse
Pixies
Primus
Radiohead
The Replacements
The Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
The Stone Roses
Sublime
Violent Femmes
Ween
Ambient
Antimatter
Arcana
Aythis
Boards of Canada
Brian Eno
The Changelings
Dead Can Dance
Deaf Center
Elend
Fennesz
Global Communication
Grouper
Jacaszek
Lull
Matryoshka
Nautic Depths
Odori
Philip Glass
Pornopop
ShamRain
Stendeck
Subheim
Tycho
White Rainbow
Avant-Garde Metal
Akphaezya
Carnival in Coal
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Gire
Kayo Dot
Kekal
Peccatum
Ram-Zet
Shining
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Solefald
Stolen Babies
Trepalium
Unexpect
Thee Maldoror Kollective
Thy Catafalque
Black Metal
1349
A Winter Lost
Absu
Agathodaimon
Alatyr
An Autumn for Crippled Children
Ancient Ceremony
Anorexia Nervosa
Arcturus
Bal-Sagoth
Bathory
Black Anvil
Black Lotus
Black Omen
Blut aus Nord
Borknagar
Celtic Frost
ChthoniC
Darkthrone
deafheaven
Deathspell Omega
Diabolical Masquerade
Dining in Tuscany
Dissection
Drudkh
Emperor
Fleurety
Graveworm
Ice Bound Majesty
Kadenzza
La Rumeur des Chaînes
Limbonic Art
Mayhem
Melechesh
Mirrorthrone
Nachtmystium
Negura Bunget
Oakhelm
Obsequiae
Old Man's Child
Ominous Grief
Ophthalamia
Oranssi Pazuzu
Rotting Christ
Sacramentum
Samael
Sigh
Transcending Bizarre?
Tvangeste
Ulver
Winterhorde
Wolves in the Throne Room
Classic Rock
The Beatles
Blue Oyster Cult
Boston
Cream
Deep Purple
The Doors
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Kansas
Led Zeppelin
Mountain
Robin Trower
The Rolling Stones
Todd Rundgren
Uriah Heep
The Who
The Yardbirds
Darkwave
All My Faith Lost...
Autumn's Grey Solace
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Claire Voyant
Clan of Xymox
Collide
Diary of Dreams
Faith and the Muse
Hungry Lucy
Johnny Hollow
Lacrimosa
L'ame Immortelle
The Last Dance
London After Midnight
Love is Colder Than Death
Love Spirals Downwards
Lycia
Miranda Sex Garden
Oneiroid Psychosis
Ophelia's Dream
Pink Turns Blue
Qntal
Rhea's Obsession
Scarlet Leaves
The Shroud
Sleeping Dogs Wake
sToa
Switchblade Symphony
This Ascension
This Mortal Coil
Trance to the Sun
You Shriek
Deathrock
Cinema Strange
The Deadfly Ensemble
The Last Days of Jesus
Mephisto Walz
Murder at the Registry
Shadow Project
Skeletal Family
Death Metal
Akercocke
The Amenta
Anaal Nathrakh
Arsis
Atheist
Augury
Behemoth
Benighted
Bloodbath
Bolt Thrower
Carcass
The Chasm
Corpse Molester Cult
DÅÅTH
Death
Decapitated
Dethklok
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Edge of Sanity
Entombed
Flourishing
Gojira
Gorod
Hate Eternal
Hypocrisy
Immolation
Kataklysm
Krisiun
Lykathea Aflame
Mitochondrion
Morbid Angel
Necrophagist
Nile
Nunslaughter
Obituary
Obscura
Phantasmagory
Psycroptic
Quo Vadis
Septic Flesh
Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement
Sonne Adam
Spawn of Possession
Substructure
Suffocation
Symbyosis
The Project Hate MCMXCIX
Theory in Practice
Vader
Vale of Pnath
Vital Remains
Zimmers Hole
Doom Metal
The 3rd and the Mortal
Anathema
Avrigus
Bloody Panda
Candlemass
Cebren-Khal
Coffins
Dark Castle
Daylight Dies
Dolorian
Draconian
Empyrium
Estatic Fear
The Fall of Every Season
The Flight of Sleipnir
The Foetal Mind
The Foreshadowing
Kauan
Lake of Tears
Lethian Dreams
The Living Fields
Mar de Grises
The Morningside
My Dying Bride
Novembre
Officium Triste
Orthodox
Saturnus
Serpentcult
Shape of Despair
Swallow the Sun
Trouble
Virgin Black
Warning
Dream Pop
Beach House
Cocteau Twins
His Name is Alive
Mazzy Star
Trespassers William
Drone
The Angelic Process
Boris
Burial Hex
Earth
Nadja
Natural Snow Buildings
Sunn O)))
Dubstep
Balam Acab
The Bug
Burial
Eskimo
Ghosts of Paraguay
iTAL tEK
Mala
wAgAwAgA
Electronic
Air
Amon Tobin
Aphex Twin
Art of Noise
Autechre
Beats Antique
Breezewax
Broadcast
Bruce Haack
Caribou
Cybo
Daft Punk
Deadmau5
Deceptikon
Depeche Mode
Dousk
E Nomine
Flying Lotus
Four Tet
The Future Sound of London
Gold Panda
The Human Experience
Isan
The Knife
Kraftwerk
LCD Soundsystem
Leftfield
Lusine
Modeselektor
múm
Nerve
Nienvox
Noisia
Nosaj Thing
Okinawa Lifestyle
Pantha du Prince
Parov Stelar
Plaid
Pogo
The Prodigy
Royksopp
Seba
Secret Frequency Crew
Susanne Sundfør
Tangerine Dream
Thievery Corporation
Transglobal Underground
Wisp
Experimental
Animal Collective
Battles
BLK JKS
Boredoms
Buckethead
Captain Beefheart
Colin Stetson
The Deserts of Traun
Dirty Granny Tales
Dirty Projectors
Dog Fashion Disco
Estradasphere
Fantomas
Fuck Buttons
Gang Gang Dance
Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet
Harlequin Jones
Hella
Icy Demons
Lupid Ocampo
Man Man
Maninkari
Menomena
Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses
The Microphones
Mr. Bungle
Naked City
Peeping Tom
The Residents
Satanicpornocultshop
Secret Chiefs 3
Soap&Skin
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Sun City Girls
That 1 Guy
Time of Orchids
Tom Waits
Tomahawk
Xiu Xiu
Yakuza
Yeasayer
Zu
Folk
Beirut
Bob Dylan
Bohinta
Bon Iver
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Damien Jurado
Faun Fables
Fleet Foxes
Great Lake Swimmers
Hanggai
Horse Feathers
Indio
Iron & Wine
Joni Mitchell
Lau Nau
Lost in the Trees
The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree
Nick Drake
Shearwater
Simon & Garfunkel
Strand of Oaks
The Tallest Man on Earth
Tinariwen
Folk Metal
Agalloch
Battlelore
Dukhi Predkov
Eluveitie
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Equilibrium
Korpiklaani
Primordial
Vintersorg
Funk
Earth, Wind & Fire
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band
The Heavy
Jamie Lidell
Ojos de Brujo
Ozomatli
Gothic Metal
After Forever
Charon
Distorted
The Gathering
Katatonia
Lacuna Coil
Moonspell
Octavia Sperati
On Thorns I Lay
Paradise Lost
Sentenced
Theatre of Tragedy
Tiamat
Tristania
Type O Negative
Within Temptation
Grindcore
Cattle Decapitation
Daughters
Impetigo
Pig Destroyer
Grunge
Alice in Chains
Meat Puppets
Mudhoney
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Screaming Trees
Skin Yard
Soundgarden
Temple of the Dog
Heavy Metal
3 Inches of Blood
Accept
Angel Witch
Astral Doors
Black Label Society
Black Sabbath
Dio
Iron Maiden
Jason Becker
Judas Priest
Manilla Road
Mercyful Fate
Motörhead
Ozzy Osbourne
Rainbow
Savatage
Sex Machineguns
Tarot
X Japan
Hip-Hop
2Pac
A Tribe Called Quest
Aesop Rock
Apathy
Atmosphere
Beastie Boys
Big L
Binary Star
Black Moon
Blackalicious
Blu & Exile
Brother Ali
Buck 65
Cage
Cannibal Ox
Cecil Otter
Collective Efforts
Common
CunninLynguists
Cypress Hill
Dälek
Death Grips
Dessa
Dilated Peoples
Dr. Octagon
El-P
Eminem
Eric B. & Rakim
Eyedea & Abilities
Flobots
Gang Starr
Glue
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Gravediggaz
Grayskul
Grieves
Hasan Salaam
Heiruspecs
House of Pain
IAM
Illogic
Immortal Technique
Input
Invincible
Jedi Mind Tricks
K'naan
Kool G Rap
K-Os
KRS-One
La Coka Nostra
The Last Emperor
Lupe Fiasco
Masta Ace
mc chris
MF DOOM
Micranots
Mos Def
Mr. Lif
Murs
N.W.A
Nas
No Bird Sing
Non Phixion
Nujabes
OFWGKTA
P.O.S.
People Under the Stairs
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Prolyphic & Reanimator
Prop Dylan
Public Enemy
Pumpkinhead
R.A. the Rugged Man
Rhyme Asylum
RJD2
The Roots
Royce da 5'9"
Sadistik
Sage Francis
Shad
Slick Rick
Slow Suicide Stimulus
Snowgoons
Sole
Sound Providers
Supastition
Talib Kweli
Tonedeff
Vakill
Wordsworth
Wu-Tang Clan
Zion I
Indie
“Awesome”
Animals That Swim
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Azure Ray
Band of Horses
The Black Heart Procession
Black Lips
Blonde Redhead
Broken Social Scene
Built to Spill
Calexico
CocoRosie
Death From Above 1979
The Decemberists
Department of Eagles
Devotchka
The Dismemberment Plan
Dispatch
Dr. Dog
Elbow
Elf Power
Elliott Smith
Field Music
The Flaming Lips
The Frames
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Grandaddy
Grizzly Bear
Guided By Voices
The Hold Steady
Interpol
Jets to Brazil
Kaki King
The Middle East
Minus the Bear
Modest Mouse
The Mountain Goats
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Murder By Death
My Brightest Diamond
The National
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
of Montreal
The Olivia Tremor Control
Owen Pallett
Pavement
Pedro the Lion
Pinback
Portugal. The Man
Quasi
Rasputina
Red House Painters
Rilo Kiley
Sebadoh
Shout Out Louds
Sleater-Kinney
The Smiths
Sparklehorse
Spiritualized
Spoon
Stars
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Sunset Rubdown
Super Furry Animals
The Swell Season
Throw Me the Statue
Treepeople
TV on the Radio
White Rabbits
The Wrens
Yo La Tengo
Industrial
Android Lust
Assemblage 23
Flesh Field
Foetus
Godflesh
Grendel
Gridlock
Icon of Coil
Kidneythieves
Kill the Thrill
The Mad Capsule Markets
Mindless Faith
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
Painbastard
Psyclon Nine
Swans
Sybreed
Tactical Sekt
Tapping the Vein
Velvet Acid Christ
Virgins O.R Pigeons
VNV Nation
X-Fusion
White Zombie
Zeromancer
Jazz
Ahmad Jamal
Bill Frisell
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Brad Mehldau
Charles Mingus
Charlie Haden
Charlie Parker
David Brubeck
The Dead Kenny G's
Duke Ellington
Flanger
Hidden Orchestra
Indigo Jam Unit
Jaga Jazzist
John Coltrane
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Krzysztof Zgraja
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Peter Evans
Pharoah Sanders
Printempo
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Return to Forever
Robert Glasper
Sun Ra
Thelonious Monk
William Parker
Yusef Lateef
Krautrock
Amon Düül II
Can
Faust
Neu!
Melodic Death Metal
The Absence
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Arch Enemy
At the Gates
Be'lakor
Before the Dawn
Callenish Circle
Children of Bodom
Crystalic
Dark Lunacy
Dark Tranquillity
Darkane
Dimension Zero
Disarmonia Mundi
Eternal Oath
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Eventide
Garden of Shadows
Gates of Ishtar
Ghost Brigade
In Flames
Inactive Messiah
Insomnium
Kalisia
Kalmah
Mercenary
Mors Principium Est
Norther
Noumena
Omnium Gatherum
Scar Symmetry
Skyfire
Soilwork
Soulscar
Unanimated
Wintersun
Zonaria
Metalcore
All That Remains
Ära Krâ
Botch
Converge
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Ego Fall
Eths
Heaven Shall Burn
Killswitch Engage
Lamb of God
Protest the Hero
Shadows Fall
Neofolk
Ataraxia
Daemonia Nymphe
In Gowan Ring
Lux Interna
The Moon and the Nightspirit
Nest
Of the Wand & the Moon
Ordo Funebris
Paul Roland
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Rome
Tenhi
Trobar de Morte
Unto Ashes
Pop
Elton John
Flight of the Conchords
Norah Jones
Prefab Sprout
Sade
Weird Al Yankovic
Post-Hardcore
Alexisonfire
At the Drive-In
Devil Sold His Soul
Drive Like Jehu
Fugazi
The Jesus Lizard
Kvelertak
Lungfish
Made Out of Babies
Past Lives
Wetnurse
Post-Punk
Asylum Party
Big Black
The Birthday Party
The Cure
Eyeless in Gaza
Fad Gadget
Fields of the Nephilim
Joy Division
Killing Joke
Mission of Burma
New Order
Prolapse
Sad Lovers and Giants
Scratch Acid
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Sisters of Mercy
Talking Heads
Tears for Fears
This Heat
Wire
XTC
Post-Rock
A Silver Mt. Zion
The Album Leaf
Balmorhea
Bästard
Bark Psychosis
Do Make Say Think
Double Handsome Dragons
The Evpatoria Report
Explosions in the Sky
Giant Squid
God is an Astronaut
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Gregor Samsa
Hammock
If These Trees Could Talk
Jesu
Khoma
Labradford
Long Distance Calling
Long Fin Killie
Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia...
Mono
Mutyumu
Nevermind the Name
note.
The Pax Cecilia
Pram
Red Sparowes
Slint
Sumner McKane
Talk Talk
toe
World’s End Girlfriend
Yndi Halda
Power Metal
Altaria
At Vance
Avantasia
Blind Guardian
Cellador
Dark Moor
Dawn of Destiny
Demons & Wizards
DragonForce
Edguy
Firewind
Gamma Ray
Hammerfall
Helloween
Iced Earth
Kamelot
Lost Horizon
Manticora
Morgana Lefay
Primal Fear
Pyramaze
Rhapsody of Fire
Serenity
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Warmen
Progressive Metal
Adagio
Age of Silence
Aghora
Alarum
Ambeon
Anubis Gate
Atrox
Ayreon
Between the Buried and Me
The Black Mages
Circus Maximus
Communic
Control Denied
Cormorant
Cynic
Dark Suns
Devin Townsend
Disillusion
Dream Theater
Eniac Requiem
Enslaved
Evergrey
Ewigkeit
Fates Warning
Freak Kitchen
Green Carnation
Haken
Hammers of Misfortune
Ihsahn
In the Woods...
Into Eternity
Leprous
Liquid Tension Experiment
Mastodon
maudlin of the Well
Mechanical Poet
Meshuggah
Myrath
Nevermore
Nightingale
Oceans of Sadness
Opeth
Orphaned Land
Pagan's Mind
Pain of Salvation
Persefone
Psychotic Waltz
Queensryche
Royal Hunt
Scholomance
Seventh Wonder
Shadow Gallery
Shaolin Death Squad
Solais
Star One
Strapping Young Lad
Stream of Passion
Subterranean Masquerade
Sun Caged
Suspyre
Symphony X
Thought Chamber
Threshold
Tool
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Vanden Plas
Waking Hour
Winds
Wolverine
Progressive Rock
3
Astra
Atomic Rooster
Blackfield
Camel
Coheed and Cambria
Demians
Devil Doll
Dredg
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
En Declin
Everon
Frank Zappa
Gazpacho
Gentle Giant
Gordian Knot
Hawkwind
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
King's X
Klimt 1918
Koi
Lava Engine
Magma
Marillion
The Mars Volta
No-Man
Oceansize
Paatos
Peter Gabriel
The Pineapple Thief
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Procol Harum
Pure Reason Revolution
Quidam
The Reverse Engineers
Rishloo
Riverside
RPWL
Rush
Soft Machine
Spock's Beard
Van der Graaf Generator
Wishbone Ash
Yes
Yugen
Psychedelic
Acid Mothers Temple
The Black Angels
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Mountain
Dead Meadow
Here We Go Magic
Iron Butterfly
Jefferson Airplane
Linus Pauling Quartet
Silver Apples
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Zola Jesus
Punk
Agent Orange
Bad Religion
Bikini Kill
Black Flag
The Clash
Dead Kennedys
Defiance, Ohio
Dropkick Murphys
The Gaslight Anthem
Hüsker Dü
Minor Threat
Minutemen
The Murder City Devils
Rise Against
Rocket from the Crypt
The Sex Pistols
The Stooges
Suicidal Tendencies
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb
Rock
A Perfect Circle
Bang Camaro
The Cranberries
Dead Confederate
Disturbed
Faith No More
Foo Fighters
Green Day
The Hives
Hurt
I Mother Earth
Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley
Living Colour
Manic Street Preachers
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Presidents of the United States of America
The Protomen
R.E.M.
Rage Against the Machine
Ratt
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rx Bandits
Santa Sabina
Santana
Sevendust
Stereoside
System of a Down
Tenacious D
Them Crooked Vultures
Screamo
Amanda Woodward
Celeste
Circle Takes the Square
Envy
Funeral Diner
Gospel
Jesus & Paka
La Quiete
One Eyed God Prophecy
Pg. 99
Portraits of Past
Raein
Saetia
Tiger Flowers
Shoegaze
Alcest
Amesoeurs
The Besnard Lakes
Cold Body Radiation
Deerhunter
Dopamine
Ghost Society
Have a Nice Life
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Les Discrets
My Bloody Valentine
Planning for Burial
School of Seven Bells
Siddal
Sleeping Peonies
Slowdive
Sun Devoured Earth
Sweet Trip
Tearwave
Sludge
Acid Bath
The Atlas Moth
Callisto
Cult of Luna
Intronaut
Isis
Kill My Bleeding Smile
Lair of the Minotaur
Mammoth Grinder
Melvins
Neurosis
The Ocean
Rosetta
SubRosa
Year of No Light
YOB
Zeni Geva
Zoroaster
Stoner Rock
Acid King
Clutch
Corrosion of Conformity
Down
The :Egocentrics
Goblin Cock
Kyuss
Only Living Witness
Sahara Surfers
Symphonic Metal
Apocalyptica
Beto Vazquez Infinity
Epica
Haggard
Hollenthon
Nightwish
Therion
Thrash Metal
Anthrax
Destroyer 666
Dew-Scented
Exodus
The Haunted
Kreator
Lazarus A.D.
Machine Head
Megadeth
Overkill
Pantera
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Skeletonwitch
Slayer
Space Eater
Swashbuckle
Testament
Witchery
Trip-Hop
2econd Class Citizen
AstroLogical
Blue Sky Black Death
Chinese Man
Crookram
DJ Shadow
Doctor Flake
Emancipator
Glen Porter
Halou
Laika
Little Dragon
Little People
Long Arm
Martina Topley Bird
Massive Attack
Natalie Walker
The New Law
Ollano
Opgave
Phantogram
Quantifier
Saltillo
Saru
THEreminGIRL
UNKLE
Wax Tailor
