The 2000s

New York New York: Psychedelic rock A Place to Bury Strangers Amen Dunes Angelblood Animal Collective Asobi Seksu Blues Control Burnt Hills Century Plants Crystal Stilts Toby Dammit Double Leopards Gang Gang Dance GHQ Heavy Winged Hototogisu La Otracina Magik Markers Peeesseye Phantom Limb Pterodactyl Religious Knives Spectre Folk Titan Vanishing Voice Vlor White Hills Wooden Wand Zaimph New York: Power-pop Bayside Beach Fossils DIIV Harlem Shakes Head Automatica Pigeons Rival Schools New York: Slocore/folk-pop Akron/Family Argentine Autumn's Grey Solace Edison Woods Oxford Collapse Woods New York: Electroclash Blank Dogs Ellen "Allien" Fraatz Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Drums Fischerspooner Hercules And Love Affair Ital LCD Soundsystem MGMT Scissor Sisters Ratatat Sleigh Bells Twin Sister White Rabbits New York: funk-punk Ex Models Liars Radio 4 Rapture New York: Prog-rock Afuche Bear In Heaven Cymbals Eat Guitars Gutbucket Richard Lee Johnson Steve MacLean Nmperign Zevious New York: Roots-rock Joe Bonamassa Clem Snide Espers Gogol Bordello Hold Steady Lights Moldy Peaches National (alt-country) P.G. Six (folktronica) Psychic Paramount Punch Brothers (bluegrass) Alexander Turnquist (solo guitar) New York: Post-rock A Storm of Light Antlers Ataxia Austerity Program Excepter Danny Frankel Fun Years Raz Mesinai Mountains +- Jack Rose (instrumental guitar) Sightings Surface of Eceon 310 Nandor Nevai Zs New York: Singer songwriters Aarktica Antony Arms Meg Baird Cult Of Youth Eef Barzalay Department Of Eagles Dirty Projectors Johnny Dowd Tim Fite Adam Green Grizzly Bear Steve Gunn Neil Hagerty Linda Hagood Here We Go Magic Norah Jones Joan As Policewoman Alicia Keys Knotworking Lady Gaga Langhorne Slim Jeffrey Lewis Jesse Malin Dan Melchior Ingrid Michaelson Mark Mulcahy Nina Nastasia Jennifer O'Connor Panda Bear Phosphorescent Frankie Rose Slow Learner Marnie Stern Luke Temple Chris Thile Greg Weeks New York: Electronica Atelecine Beta Cloud Black Dice Books Christmas Decorations Eric Copeland Taylor Deupree Hoor-Paar-Kraat Oneohtrix Point Never Keith Fullerton Whitman 1 Mile North New York: hardcore Every Time I Die The Men Mindless Self Indulgence Polar Bear CLub New York: emocore Brand New Coheed And Cambria (progressive emocore) From Autumn To Ashes Glassjaw Gospel (screamo) Straylight Run Taking Back Sunday New York: gothic Unto Ashes New York: New generation French Kicks Heroine Sheiks High Places Interpol Mooney Suzuki Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Ra Ra Riot Seconds Semiautomatic Strokes TV On The Radio Vampire Weekend Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeasayer New York: avant-rock Noveller (ambient) Prurient Parts and Labor (noise) Sybarite New York: rap and soul Aesop Rock Antipop Consortium Arsonists Beans Cam'ron Diplomats 50 Cent Bigg Jus BS2000 Cannibal Ox Danger Mouse El-P Gnarls Barkley How To Dress Well J Dilla Jim Jones Keelay & Zaire Talib Kweli Metabolics Georgia Anne Muldrow Rob Swift That Handsome Devil Saul Williams X-Ecutioners James Yancey New York: neo-soul Chrisette Michele New York: garage-rock Heavy Trash Twin Stumps Vivian Girls New York: World music Antibalas New York: dance Dub Trio (dub) Nicolas Jaar (techno) Machinedrum Mocean Worker (drum'n'bass) Submerged (drum'n'bass) New York: Stoner/metal Candiria (prog-metal) Cathode Terror Secretion (grind) Khanate (super-doom) Khlyst (doom) Liturgy (black metal) Made Out of Babies (stoner-metal) PsyOpus (prog-metal) Rigor Sardonicus (doom-metal) Others Au Revoir Simone Felice Brothers Iran Matt & Kim Rihanna (dance ballad) Telepathe These Are Powers

Boston Boston: metalcore Killswitch Engage Lotus Eaters Old Man Gloom Unearth Boston: experimental metal Isis Kayo Dot Maudlin Of The Well Sewer Goddess Tides Boston: Progressive rock Absolute Zero Beat Circus Dear Hunter (prog-rock) Boston: Psychedelic Pop Cave In Sunburned Hand of the Man Walkmen Boston: Singer songwriters Giles Corey Toby Driver Ill Ease Ben Kweller Erin McKeown Marissa Nadler Nonloc Amanda Palmer Dave Rawlings Machine Mary Timony Boston: Hardcore Dresden Dolls Orchid (screamo) Boston: Post-rock Chris Brokaw Consonant Fat Worm Of Error Have A Nice Life Boston: Dance music Edan Portnoy Hrvatski Passion Pit DJ Rupture Boston: acid-rock Paradise Camp 23 Erik Amlee Boston: Rap Edan Mr Lif Washington Washington: Hardcore Black Eyes Darkest Hour Washington: Disco-punk Q And Not U Supersystem Washington: rap Me'Shell NdegeOcello Spank Rock Wale Washington: Alternative rock Canyon Quix*o*tic Saturday People Turing Machine White Magic Washington: singer songwriters Ted Leo Washington: glitch electronica Chuck Bettis Washington: world-music Extra Golden Washington: garage-rock Weird War Washington: metal Animals as Leaders (prog) Dead Meadow (stoner) Krallice (prog-metal) Orthrelm (prog-metal) Maryland: Arbouretum (roots rock) Beach House (slo-core) Cotton Jones Basket Ride Dawn Of Man (funk-punk) Dan Deacon (experimental) Double Dagger (hardcore) Future Islands (electroclash) Half Makeshift (glitch) Cass McCombs (songwriter) June Star (alt-country) Navicon Torture Technologies (industrial) Page France (roots-rock) Pianos Become The Teeth (hardcore) Ponytail (hardcore) Raheem (hip-hop) Strand of Oaks (songwriter) Thank You (post-rock) Wilderness (post-rock) Wye Oak (roots-rock) Delaware: Boy Sets Fire (hardcore) Light Of Shipwreck (post-rock) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania: Metal Birds Of Maya Cky (stoner) Genghis Tron Human Quena Orchestra Orgone (death) Purling Hiss Rosetta Spacin' Pennsylvania: Experimental rock An Albatross (psych) Aspera (psych) Fern Knight (psych-folk) Bent Leg Fatima Dysrhythmia Eltro (psych) Kevin Hufnagel Infidel? Castro Majeure (psych-rock) Man Man Need New Body Red Masque (prog-rock) Vomit Orchestra (industrial) Zombi (space-rock) Pennsylvania: Grindcore death-metal Commit Suicide Pennsylvania: songwriter Fursaxa Melody Gardot Pink Santogold Kurt Vile Pennsylvania: electronica Black Moth Super Rainbow Lightning Dust Tobacco Pennsylvania: hip hop and neo-soul Bilal Jneiro Jarel Ursula Rucker Jill Scott Pennsylvania: Power-pop A Sunny Day In Glasgow Capillary Action Capitol Years Dr Dog Mazarin Person L Starting Line War On Drugs Pennsylvania: garage-rock Pissed Jeans Violent Students Pennsylvania: Roots rock Marah Pennsylvania: hardcore Menzingers Mewithoutyou Paint It Black The Wonder Years Pennsylvania: emo Breaking Pangaea Circa Survive (progressive emocore) Pennsylvania: dance Cold Cave Girl Talk

Chicago Chicago: Roots-rock Autumn Defense Bowl Of Fire Central Falls Fiery Furnaces L'Altra Loose Fur Charlie Schmidt Chicago: Psychedelic Spires That in the Sunset Rise Chicago: Singer songwriters Azita Jay Bennett Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Jay Farrar Josephine Foster Fruit Bats Andrew Bird Michael Krassner Matt Marque Owen Rivulets Ben Weasel Rachael Yamagata Chicago: Garage-rock Chestnut Station Mass Shivers Plastic Crimewave Sound Ponys X27 Chicago: Instrumental Concern (ambient) Greg Davis (ambient) Scott Tuma Sun Circle (ambient) Terminal 4 Chicago: Power-pop Alkaline Trio (emo-pop) American Hi-Fi Bound Stems Duvall Headlights M's Zwan Chicago: Alt-rock Cave (psych-rock) Hey Mercedes Mahjongg (dance-rock) Telefon Tel Aviv Chicago: Industrial music DJ? Acucrack Metalux Chicago: Electronica Brent Gutzeit (laptop) Echospace Rob Modell Margaret Noble (dance) Slicker TV Pow (laptop) Vertonen Chicago: Rap and soul RP Boo (footwork) All Natural Flashbulb Lupe Fiasco DJ Rashad (footwork) Kanye West Chicago: Post-rock Algernon Battles Bird Show Eternals Ghosts & Vodka Glenn Kotche Lichens Lofty Pillars Lynx Melochrome Morning Recordings Owls Pillow Russian Circles Singer Volcano Yakuza Chicago: Hardcore Academy Is Fall Out Boy Rise Against Chicago: Metal Agathothodion (black metal) Buried At Sea Charnel House Chord (prog-metal) Flaskavsae (black metal) Haptic (post-rock) Light Shall Prevail (black metal) Locrian (doom/ambient) Mausoleums (black metal) Minsk Mudvayne (prog-metal) Nachtmystium (black metal) Njiqahdda (black metal) On (post-rock) OS Pelican (prog-metal) Pinebender (post-metal) Ohio Ohio: Post-rock Aloha Burning Star Core Enon Nad Navillus Taiga Remains Tweaker Ohio: roots-rock Black Swans Wussy Ohio: Rap Boom Bip RJD2 Ohio: songwriter Peter Adams Dan Auerbach Baby Dee Boston Spaceships Kenna Magnolia Electric Mark McGuire Swearing At Motorists Ohio: electronica Emeralds Ohio: metal Skeletonwitch Ohio: Garage-rock, stoner Black Keys Drummer Heartless Bastards Homostupids Mr Gnome Psychedelic Horseshit Times New Viking

Texas Texas: Experimental By The End Of Tonight (post-rock) Tom Carter (ambient guitar) Christina Carter (ambient guitar) Dreamland (ambient) Explosions In The Sky (post-rock) Honey Barbara Octopus Project True Widow (post-rock) Texas: Roots-rock Baptist Generals Goudie Gourds Midlake Wooden Birds Texas: Psychedelic rock Black Affair Black Angels Centro-matic Crack Pipes (garage) Indian Jewelry Mars Volta New Year Polyphonic Spree School of Seven Bells Secret Machines South San Gabriel Tia Carrera Weird Weeds Yeti Texas: metal Bahimiron Brown Jenkins Crimson Massacre Mouth Of The Architect Pyramids Unloco Texas: singer songwriters Farrah Abraham Beyonce Scott Biram Micah Hinson Jolie Holland Sarah Jarosz Will Johnson Miranda Lambert Rhett Miller Salim Nourallah Solange Texas: emocore Sparta Texas: New generation I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Neon Indian (chillwave) Paper Chase White Denim Others Rusted Shut (hardcore) Strange Boys Herd of Instinct (prog-rock) Arizona Arizona: Andrew Jackson Jihad (AJJ) (punk-folk) Sir Richard Bishop (instrumental guitar) Catacombs (doom metal) Job For A Cowboy (extreme metal) Servile Sect (black metal) Smoke & Mirrors (electronica) Bob Log (songwriter)

Kentucky Kentucky Samara Lubelski (songwriter) VHS or Beta (dance-punk) My Morning Jacket (roots-rock) Cage The Elephant (alt-rock) Indiana: Caethua Early Day Miners (slocore) Gates Of Slumber (doom) Murder By Death (roots) Odawas DM Stith (songwriter) Nevada: Killers (electroclash) Panic At The Disco (emocore) New Mexico: Beirut (songwriter) Broken Bells (pop) William Fowler Collins (instrumental) Shins (pop) A Hawk And A Hacksaw (songwriter) The South Kansas: Anniversary (emo) Raglani (electronica) Reggie and the Full Effect Vulture Club (doom) White Flight (psych) Missouri: Capsules (dream-pop) Expo'70 (post-rock) Grand Ulena (post-rock) Jute Gyte (metal) Living Things 90 Day Men (post-rock) Warhammer 48K (metal) Yowie (post-rock) Mississippi: Roitan (garage) Louisiana: Julianna Barwick (songwriter) Belong (psychedelic) Bipolaroid (psychedelic) Chef Menteur (psych-rock) Curren$y (hip-hop) Goatwhore (black metal) Lil Wayne (rap) Morning 40 Federation Music Tapes Mutemath MC Trachiotomy (hip-hop) Tennessee: Cory Branan (songwriter) Cloudland Canyon Dynamites (soul) Jamey Johnson (country) Kevin Gordon (songwriter) Kings of Leon Lucero Knotworking Buddy & Julie Miller Panopticon (black metal) Paramore (punk-pop) Protomen (prog-rock) Jay Reatard (punk-pop) Reigning Sound (garage) Taylor Swift (country) Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (prog-metal) Abigail Washburn (songwriter) Hayley Williams (songwriter) Arkansas: Evanescence (goth/pop-metal) Alabama: A.A. Bondy (singer-songwriter) G-Side (rap) Immortal Lee County Killers (garage-blues) Brightblack (psych folk) Georgia: Angelic Process (metalgaze) Atlas Sound (singer-songwriter) Azure Ray (slocore) Kevin Barnes (songwriter) Baroness (metal) Big Boi (hip-hop) Black Lips (garage-rock) Brand New Immortals (roots-rock) Causey Way (instr) Chariot (metalcore) Circulatory System (pop) Coathangers (garage) CunninLynguists (hip-hop) Deerhunter (psych) Richard Devine (glitch) Die Hunns (punk) Drive-by Truckers (roots-rock) Drumma Boy (hip-hop) Evol Intent (hip-hop) Frosted Ambassador (psych) Kelly Hogan (songwriter) Jason Isbell (songwriter) Japancakes (ambient) Jeezy (hip-hop) Killer Mike (hip-hop) Kopernik (neoclassical) Kylesa (metal) Manchester Orchestra Gucci Mane (hip-hop) Marax (ambient) Marvelous 3 (power-pop) Maserati (post-rock) Mastodon (stoner) John Mayer (singer-songwriter) Mendoza Line (pop) Janelle Monae (soul) Motion Sickness Of Time Travel (drone) Norma Jean (metalcore) Now It's Overhead (folk-pop) Petterson Hood Prefuse 73 (hip-hop) Savath & Savalas (pop) P'taah (trip-hop) San Agustin (post-rock) Seaworthy (folktronica) Southeast Engine Sugarland (country) Sunshine Fix Project (pop) The-Dream (hip-hop) T.I. (hip-hop) DJ Toomp Butch Walker (songwriter) Zoroaster (doom metal) South Carolina: Anakrid (electronica) Libraness Florida: Against Me (hardcore) Astronautalis (hip-hop) Black Kids (new wave) Capsule (hardcore) Cavity (metal) Dashboard Confessional (emo-pop) Floor (metal) Goslings (doom) Holopaw (roots-rock) Iron And Wine (songwriter) Lansing-Dreiden (new wave revival) Leels (experimental) Bill Orcutt (songwriter) Poison The Well (metalcore) Postmarks (pop) Rick Ross (hip-hop) Solillaquists Of Sound (hip-hop) Torche (metal) Underoath (hardcore) North Carolina: Ryan Adams (songwriter) Ahleuchatistas (alt-rock) Avett Brothers (alt-country) Between the Buried and Me (prog-metal) Caitlin Cary (songwriter) Filthybird (roots-rock) Hiss Golden Messenger (alt-country) Horseback (psych-rock) Irata (post-rock) Jabladav (black metal) Killwhitneydead (grindcore) Megafaun (freak folk) Reigning Sound (garage) Remora Rosebuds (pop) Snagglepuss (alt-rock) Spider Bags (roots-rock) Volcano Choir Weedeater (stoner-rock) Virginia: Virginia: Grunge/metal Alabama Thunderpussy Salome Sunshine Souvenir's Young America Wrnlrd Virginia: Funk-punk Lu Virginia: Rap Clipse N.E.R.D. Neptunes Virginia: folk-rock Hush Arbors Tanakh Virginia: Progressive-rock From Quagmire Manishevitz Others Burn The Priest Lamb Of God Pg 99 (screamo) Wild Nothing

Colorado: Folk-pop Czars DeVotchKa Onerepublic Slim Cessna's Auto Club Experimental Encomiast Janet Feder Iz Nimby Punk-pop Dressy Bessy Metal Cephalic Carnage Songwriter Woven Hand The Midwest Wisconsin: Bon Iver (songwriter) Bongzilla (stoner-metal) Collections of Colonies of Bees (post-rock) Davenport (free folk) Decibully (alt-country) Far Corner (prog-rock) Jaill (psych-pop) Julian Lynch (songwriter) Maritime Pale Young Gentlemen Pele (post-rock) Zola Jesus (songwriter) Utah: Coastal (slo-core) Gaza (metalcore) Idaho: Pussygutt (doom-metal) Josh Ritter (songwriter) Nebraska: Broken Spindles (post-rock) Criteria (emocore) Cursive (emocore) Desaparecidos (emocore) Faint (dance-pop) Good Life (pop) Head Of Femur (pop) Ladyfinger Mayday (post-rock) Racebannon (hardcore) Montana: North Dakota: Oklahoma: Evangelicals North Sea All American Rejects St Vincent Starlight Mints (pop) Iowa Raccoo-Oo-On (psych) Slipknot (death-metal) William Elliott Whitmore (songwriter) Michigan Michigan: Electroclash Adult Salem (witch house) Michigan: Psychedelic rock Paik (Earth/Melvins stoner) Slumber Party Michigan: singer-songwriters Rob Crow Mayer Hawthorne Robert McCreedy Sufjan Stevens (baroque pop) Fred Thomas Jack White Michigan: Power-pop City Center Saturday Looks Good to Me Michigan: prog-rock Larval NOMO Michigan: Garage-rock Dead Weather Tyvek Von Bondies Waxwings White Stripes Michigan: Heavy metal Andrew W.K. Black Dahlia Murder Chiodos Michigan: Electronica Audion (techno) Matthew Dear (techno) Der Zyklus Aaron Dilloway (industrial) Terrence Dixon Innerzone Orchestra Mammal (industrial) Persona Wolf Eyes (industrial) Michigan: Dance Dabrye (hip-hop) Danny Brown Kem (soul) Minnesota Minnesota: Power-pop Tapes'n Tapes Walker Kong Year Of The Rabbit Minnesota: Experimental rock Azrael Dosh Alan Sparhawk (solo guitar) Glass Organ If Thousands To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie Minnesota: Singer/songwriters John Maus Olivette Anni Rossi Randy Weeks Minnesota: metal Celestiial (doom) Minnesota: Roots-rock Bellwether Minnesota: solo guitar Paul Metzger (banjo) Zebulon Pike Minnesota: solo guitar Ilyas Ahmed Minnesota: Electronica Fog Minnesota: Post-hardcore Vaz Minnesota: Rap Atmosphere Brother Ali Kill the Vulture Oddjobs P.O.S. East Coast New Jersey: Armor For Sleep (emocore) Ducktails (lo-fi pop) Early November Gaslight Anthem Home Blitz (garage) Krieg (black metal) Memory Tapes (chillwave) My Chemical Romance (emocore) Real Estate (lo-fi pop) Screaming Females (garage) Thursday (emocore) Titus Andronicus (punk-rock) Pete Yorn (singer-songwriter) Vermont: Drowningman Feathers Anais Mitchell (songwriter) Oysterhead Connecticut: Apathy (hip-hop) Hatebreed (metalcore) Landing (ambient rock) Magik Markers (psych-folk) Spectre Folk (psych-folk) Major Stars (psych-rock) Rhode Island: Arab On Radar (noise) Black Forest Black Sea The Body (doom metal) Chinese Stars (noise) Daughters (grindcore) Death Vessel (alt-country) Deer Tick (roots-rock) Eyes Like Saucers Frown Les Savy Fav (post-hardcore) Lightning Bolt (noise) Low Anthem Juan Maclean (new generation) Mindflayer (noise) Geoff Mullen (noise) Elvis Perkins Alec Redfearn and the Eyesores (avant-pop) Urdog (freak-folk) Hawaii: ?: