Recommend me some bands to listen to?

[AmazingGracePlayer]

Hello fellow TBers,

Good day to you all. Today I come with a quest to find more bands I like. I'm a hardcore Primus fan. Although I don't like all of their songs, I'm able to appreciate them still because of the technical, structural, and theoretical aspects of the music (especially the structural part, it's one of the most structured bands I've heard). And recently, I just started to listen to Chiodos. If you haven't heard it, it's like Lacuna Coil/Saosin with emo-ish piano parts added to it.... it's quite hard to categorize under a genre.

I'm looking for something new to listen to. If it is funky or groovy, then it'll be the best. If it's some odd funk/groove, that's still OK. Nothing TOO heavy, and definitely no female singers.

Here are some bands I like...
Buckethead (almost everything except Elephantman's Alarm Clock)
Primus (almost everything)
Les Claypool's side bands (almost everything)
Simon & Garfunkel (almost everything)
Flecktones (Live at the Quick, don't quite like the albums based on improvisation)
Bob Marley (Legend)
Praxis (Transmutatis)
Reel Big Fish (almost everything)
Talking Head (Stop Making Sense)
Tower of Power (Souled Out)
Victor Wooten (A Show of Hands)
etc

Bands I don't like...
Guns N' Roses
Grateful Dead
Rage Against the Machines
etc
I guess mainly "generic" (please don't argue ) rock bands.


Thanks all!

EDIT: Also, any good R&B singers other than Christina Aguilera? I like a lot of her works, not the pop ones, but other more blue-zy ones are my favorite.

[gkbass13]

check out medeski martin and wood
oteil and the peacemakers
the aquarium rescue unit
mshell ndgeocello


those should be a decent start.

[AmazingGracePlayer]

Also, any good R&B singers other than Christina Aguilera? I like a lot of her works, not the pop ones, but other more blue-zy ones are my favorite.

[gweimer]

For female singers:
E.G. Kight
Shemekia Copeland

Other stuff:
Jamie Liddell - pick up Multiply. Excellent blue-eyed soul
Glenn Hughes - most people know him from Deep Purple. There's more to him than that. Feel is a good, diverse album.
Groove Addiction - out of Nashville. They may have changed their name since I picked up their CD. Really good commercial soul. You can find Temporal Bliss on CDBaby - "Soulful pop/rock/funk stew with just the right amount of edge. If Maroon 5, John Mayer and Lenny Kravitz had sex with with Prince, Toto and Steely Dan, this band would be the offspring." My own review is also on there from I-See-Sound

[lunarpollen]

I recommend Bow Wow Wow for their original sound. An insanely amazing bass player + spaghetti western/glam guitars + hyper tribal beats (live drummer, not a machine).

[Double Agent]

Stevie Wonder - Nate Watts is my funk hero
Jamiroquai - preferably the Stuary Zender era; Paul Turner is a great player but I thought the songs were better when Zender was in the band.
Living Colour - a really funky rock band, very underrated IMO.

My personal favorite female R&B singer is Chaka Khan. If you're looking for newer stuff, I am really into what Corrine Bailey Rae is doing.

[BassSurfer]

Robert Randolph And The Family Band..

[sarcastro83]

Zappa...

[Barkless Dog]

Battles
Porcupine Tree
XTC
NEU!
The Bears
Schnauser
The Lucky Bishops
Jean Luc Ponty
Devin Townsend
Conspiracy- Chris Squire
Chroma Key
Happy The Man

[gabethedestroyr]

Earth wind and fire if you don't already..(didn't see it on your list)

[stratovani]

RUSH!

[fenderhutz]

Sunny Day Real Esate - Diary, LP2
HUM - Downward is Heavenward, You'd prefer an Astronaut


Not groovy or funky, but the layered guitar and harmonies will open up your musical mind and Nate Mendel before he joined the Foo Fighters was incredible with Sunny Day.

[bassnug47]

Mofro (jj grey)- any album is tight
deep banana blackout- get the old cd's
jazz mandolin project-awesome
The Mars Volta- its heavy-ish, but awesome, very very strange time signatures (27/16!!)
Perpetual Groove- trippy
Robert Randolph and the Family Band- get a live c.d.
Superjam (Ben Barper, ?uestlove, and John Paul Jones!)- go to nugs.net and get an awesome live set for free
Dungen- swedish neo-phsycodelia
Keller Williams- get Breath ( with SCI) awesome bluegrass funk jazz fusion in an awesome mellow attitude.
Old Crow Medicine Show- you probably wont like them, but i think they are awesome, great live band.

[coreyfyfe]

+1 on the mars volta - but id only recommend deloused in the comatorium. great music on here, and the bass playing in great (it was all done by flea of RHCP). frances the mute (and especially the tour supporting it) was a big let down for me.

check out Minus the Bear, most of the real technical stuff is in the guitar but the bass player has some real grooving parts.