The 2000s

Canada | Australia | New Zealand

France | Britain | Ireland | Germany Scandinavia | Holland/Belgium Austria/Switzerland | Eastern Europe | Italy

Japan

Canada Vancouver: avantgarde Loscil Vancouver: pop Destroyer Hot Hot Heat New Pornographers P:ano Vancouver: punk-rock Black Halos Montreal: pop Dears Montreal: electro-pop Arcade Fire Islands Unicorns We Are Wolves Wolf Parade Montreal: post-rock Besnard Lakes Fly Pan Am Hrsta Harris Newman Tim Hecker (glitch) Toronto: alt-rock Aidan Baker Broken Social Scene Jason Collett Do Make Say Think (post-rock) Constantines Les Mouches Nadja Toronto: pop Hidden Cameras Junior Boys (synth-pop) Canada: Rap Buck 65 Kid Koala Sixtoo Canada: Electro-pop Caribou Hampton Holy Fuck Manitoba Pan Tone Peaches Canada: progressive A Silver Mt Zion Christopher Bissonnette (avantgarde) Molasses Shalabi Effect Toronto: roots-rock Sadies Canada: songwriter Jason Collett Nathalie Derome Leslie Feist Final Fantasy Tegan and Sara Chad VanGaalen Hawksley Workman Canada: songwriter Venetian Snares (drum'n'bass)

Australia Australia: Metal Berzerker Australia: electronica Mr Geoffrey and JD Franzke Ashera Avalanches Pimmon Terminal Sound System (drum'n'bass) Australia: folk-pop Architecture in Helsinki Art Of Fighting Australia: post-rock Grey Daturas

New Zealand New Zealand: lo-fi pop New Zealand: experimental rock Antony Milton New Zealand: alt rock New Zealand: songwriter

Japan Experimental Christine 23 Onna (psychedelic) Chihei Hatakeyama (ambient) Maju (ambient) Mono (post-rock) Nerve Net Noise (glitch) Repeat (glitch) Korekyojinn (prog-rock) Japan: alt rock China Intelligent Shanghai Mono University (laptop) 718 (laptop)

France France: progressive NeBeLNeST Khvarena Sotos France: experimental Dorine Muraille Colleen (ambient) M83 France: pop Phoenix Tahiti 80 France: house Cassius France: electroclash Vitalic

Scandinavia Denmark: Efterklang (post-rock) Figurines (alt-rock) Raveonettes Denmark: heavy metal Sweden: garage-rock Hives International Noise Conspiracy Mando Diao Sweden: songwriter Nicolai Dunger Jens Lekman Sweden: glitch Coh (glitch) Sweden: progressive Mats/Morgan Band Sweden: pop Dungen Peter Bjorn & John Sweden: dark ambient Henrik "Nordvargr" Bjorkk Sweden: dance Field (techno) Knife (electro) Norway: metal Arcturus (black metal) Beyond Dawn (doom-metal) Spiral Architect (prog-metal) Norway: pop Kings Of Convenience Sondre Lerche Serena-Maneesh (shoegaze) Norway: electronica Alog Jaga Jazzist Royksopp Shining Supersilent Tom Vedvik Finland Darude (techno) Aki Peltonen (prog-rock) Satanic Warmaster (black metal) Shape Of Despair (doom metal) Iceland: pop Mum (post-rock)

Germany Germany: techno/industrial Auch Banaroo Thomas Fehlmann Isolee Monolake Germany: electronica Chicks On Speed (electroclash) Frank Bretschneider (glitch) C-Schulz Antye Greie-Fuchs Jan Jelinek (glitch) Kammerflimmer Kollektief (jazztronica) Christian Kleine Komet (glitch) Felix Kubin Stephan Mathieu (glitch) MS John Soda (glitch-pop) Noize Creator Peter Kruder (trip hop) Pluramon Troom (droning) Germany: songwriter Niobe Germany: folk Steffen Basho-Junghans Germany: heavy metal Nargaroth (black metal) Rammstein (black metal) Germany: gothic

Eastern Europe Croatia Yugoslavia Science Group (prog-rock) Poland Czech Republic

Holland/ Belgium Belgium: IDM Styrofoam

England England: hip-hop Brassy Burial M.I.A. Streets Dizzee Rascal England: retro-pop Alfie Arctic Monkeys Art Brut Bloc Party Brave Captain British Sea Power Clearlake Clientele Clinic Doves (acoustic pop) Elbow (acoustic pop) Futureheads Gay Dad (glam) Fiel Garvey Go Team Gorillaz Guillemots I Am Kloot (acoustic pop) Ikara Colt Libertines Long Blondes Muse Noonday Underground Seachange Sing Sing Starsailor Zero 7 England: electro-pop Earlies Four Tet (digital folk) Ladytron Playgroup Patrick Wolf (digital folk) England: psychedelic-rock Lupine Howl Shit And Shine Volcano The Bear England: drone-rock Sunroof Vibracathedral Orchestra England: solo guitar James Blackshaw England: dream-pop Monster Movie England: industrial Damage Manual Jesu Penumbra Thighpaulsandra England: roots-rock Electrelane Sons & Daughters England: songwriter Badly Drawn Boy Boduf Songs Jarvis Cocker Graham Coxon Dakota Suite Matt Elliott Ed Harcourt Richard Hawley Lone Pigeon Vinny Miller Sheila Nicholls Gruff Rhys Emiliana Torrini Amy Winehouse England: grindcore Firebird England: prog-rock Guapo England: trip-hop Alison Goldfrapp England: garage-rock Kills England: drill'n'bass Andrew Coleman Animals on Wheels Icarus (progressive drum'n'bass) England: techno Bent Jamie Lidell Kirk Degiorgio As One Journeyman Radioactive Man Super Collider England: post-rock Appliance Fridge Andy Moor 65Daysofstatic England: punk-rock McLusky England: electronica Mira Calix Chris Herbert Vert

Ireland Ireland: pop Ireland: folk-rock Ireland: songwriter Adrian Crowley Ireland: techno

Scotland Scotland: folk-rock Camera Obscura Gentle Waves Lorna Reindeer Section Snow Patrol Scotland: electronica ISAN Scotland: pop Ballboy Franz Ferdinand Mull Historical Society Songs & Daughers Wisdom Of Harry Scotland: dance-pop Scotland: songwriter Dot Allison Isobel Campbell KT Tunstall Scotland: instrumental Scotland: post-rock Aereogramme

Italy Italy A Short Apnea Afterhours Giardini di Miro` Jennifer Gentle (psych-pop) Larsen (post-rock) Maisie (post-rock) My Cat Is An Alien (post-rock) Quintorigo Yuppie Flu Zu (post-rock)

Brazil Latin America: heavy-metal Colombia Shakira

Austria/Switzerland Switzerland Austria Bernhard Fleischmann (glitch) KTL (glitch) Peace Orchestra Pita (glitch) Radian (post-rock) Turkey Erdem Helvacioglu (electronic)