What music did you discover this year?

[Ben Rose]

This has been a phenomenal year for me in terms of discovering music. Some of the bands are new, some are just new to me.

Amos Lee - Mission Bell
The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
Ben L'Oncle Soul - Ben L'Oncle Soul
Chelsea Sue Allen - Tiny Prizes
Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
Dave Rawlings Machine - A friend of a friend
The Devil Makes Three - Stomp and Smash
The Domino Kings - Some Kind of Sign
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halos - Fields of June
Fun. - Aim and Ignite
Glen Hansard - Rhythm and Repose
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Julien Dore - Bichon
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
Mayor Hawthorne - How Do You Do
Nicos Gun - (youtube)
MuteMath - Odd Soul
Raul Malo - Sinners & Saints
Rufus Wainright - Out of the Game
Tracey Thorn - Tinsel & Lights
You Can't Win Charlie Brown - Chromatic

So what new bands or albums did you discover this year?

[Mr_Music90]

Adagio - Neo Classical Metal / Progressive Symphonic Metal

Avantasia - Symphonic Metal / Power Metal

[Scobby Bott]

I discovered you can play Six Degrees of Ben Verellen and win every time.

[bassgod0dmw]

New to me...

Mumford & Sons
Grateful Dead

[Casting Thunder]

Of Monsters and Men
Rush
Jethro Tull
Clare Maguire

[BenBL]

So many for me this year:

Heart for a Tin Man (knew about them just really got into them now, and currently one of my Favorites)
A Tribe Called Quest
The Band
AWOLNATION
Desktop Rulers
El Ten Eleven
Chuck Ragan (now one of my all time favorites)
Twenty |One | Pilots (amazing live if you have the chance)
Biffy Clyro
Jack Johnson
The Gaslight Anthem
Fitz and the Tantrums
Radiohead
JAY-Z
Outkast
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Mogwai
Charles Mingus
International Karate

[Ben Rose]

Just spent some time cruising the discoveries in this thread. So much good stuff! Especially digging AWOLNATION.

International Karate reminded me of this video: http://youtu.be/uFlQNtL8F9s

[Demonjrx]

Albums this I discovered this year?
Panopticon - Kentucky
Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild Soundtrack
Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes
Honestly that's it.. The albums category for my discoveries this year was rather week.

Artists?
Simon & Garfunkel
Peter Gabriel
Phillip Phillips
Kelly Joe Phelps
Falling In Reverse
Orchid
Waking The Monolith
Toadies
Green Jelly
As I Lay Dying
Young Hunter
Eric Church
Zach Brown Band
And... I guess that's it... Wow.. Woulda thunk I discovered more?

[alexlocurto]

Symphonic Metal.... It's so amazing.....

[CauliColin]

Franz Ferdinand (well, re-discovered them)
Rainbow
Pantera
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker

[Stormer]

Jaco- i finally get it!!!
Bill Withers
Albert King

[champbassist]

For me, the biggest discovery this year was Cocteau Twins. Safe to say I'm a fan for life.

[DeathFromBelow]

Ufomammut

Townes Van Zandt (Yeah, I know; I'm a bit late to the party...)

The Midnight Ghost Train

Elephant9 (If you like progressive jazz-rock, you MUST check these guys out!)

Martyrdöd

Joy Division

Miles Davis

Tom Waits (Again, I know...)

Black Cobra

[Bassist4Eris]

Thanks to TBers:
Albert King
Roy Buchanan
Rocket Juice and the Moon

Thanks to a book called 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die:
Bulgarian Women's National Radio and Television Chorus
DJ Shadow
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star

Thanks to my guitar player:
Dysrhythmia

Thanks to live performances:
Skerik's Bandalabra (opened for them, got owned)
Jimmy Herring Band
Chris Botti
The Latent (my new favorite local band)

Thanks to web surfing:
Annie Gosfield
The Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus
Between The Buried And Me
Don Caballero

[davidjbass]

Deadmau5. My kids got me into him. Great stuff.
Stevie Wonder. Great bass lines.

[gkbass13]

this year i got into:

RJD2
ST Germain
Father John Misty
M83
Air

those are the only ones that were completely new to me this year.

[BassAgent]

New to me:

Sarah Jarosz
Bon Iver
Cinematic Orchestra
Sigur Ros
Fat Freddy's Drop
Bernhoft
John Martyn
Patrick Watson

Something like that.

[csanders]

This year has been an odd one for me, musically. I've delved back into TripHop for some strange reason.

Metric
Portishead
Collide
Kidneythieves

Also went back and found Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip's 2nd album. I miss these guys.



P.S. Whoever said Symphonic Metal... Thank you. You win.

[Barca_bass]

Originally Posted by Demonjrx

Albums this I discovered this year?
Panopticon - Kentucky
Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild Soundtrack
Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes
Honestly that's it.. The albums category for my discoveries this year was rather week.

Artists?
Simon & Garfunkel
Peter Gabriel
Phillip Phillips
Kelly Joe Phelps
Falling In Reverse
Orchid
Waking The Monolith
Toadies
Green Jelly
As I Lay Dying
Young Hunter
Eric Church
Zach Brown Band
And... I guess that's it... Wow.. Woulda thunk I discovered more?

Glad to see you found Toadies. As for me: Fitz and the Tantrums, couldn't avoid Gotye or Adele (I actually ended up enjoying both), Citizen Cope, The Shins, and Portugal the Man. There were probably many others, but I cannot recall them at this time.

[bwoodman]

Dirty Loops - and glad to see that David Foster has put them on his tour - I dig these cats!