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Way too many to list but I'll throw one out. Do you like Radiohead, REM, The National, Pixies, Frank Turner, or Dinosaur Jr.? Well, they (or their lead singer) all love Mark Mulcahy's music enough to have recorded a cover song for the tribute album when Mark's wife passed.

Mark led the band Miracle Legion, released some solo work, and led the band Polaris (not the metal band from Australia), best known as the band from the show The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Also noteworthy: Miracle Legion toured and released an EP with The Sugarcubes, aka Bjork's band.

Song recommendations: The Backyard, All For The Best by Miracle Legion - Hey Sandy, Saturnine by Polaris - Taking Baby Steps, The Fiddler, Hey Self Defeater by Mark Mulcahy.

Album recommendations: Drenched by Miracle Legion, Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete by Polaris, and Fathering by Mark Mulcahy.

Jukebox the ghost. Criminally underrated, they'd have been as big as queen or muse if they had the right publicity and timing.

The Tallest Man on Earth. Probably the best modern folk artist, but not as well known as he should be.

Aimee Mann. One of the best songwriters of the 90s and 2000s. Popular, but not as much as she should be.

Placebo.

Talk Talk. Spirit of Eden is one of the greatest albums ever made, but not many people know about it.

In general, Parliament/Funkadelic has a ton of artists within its scope worth exploring. George Clinton is probably the most famous among them, but there's also Eddie Hazel, Bootsy Collins, Gary Shider and his son Garrett Shider, Fred Wesley, and a lot more.

I also recently discovered a Japanese artist called Masaki Ueda who seems criminally unknown.

Nick Drake.

Years ahead of his time and while he gets a lot of recognition posthumously in certain music circles, he didn't have any hits during his life, or even any hits after, so the average Joe hasn't heard of him.

All three of his albums are fantastic, though Five Leaves Left is my favorite.

Knower - pretty fucking sweet music with a good sense of humor.

• Thank You Scientist

• Tesseract

• Panzerballett

• Ado

Easily Fish in a Birdcage, my number one vibeing artist.

The metalcore band Harm. IMO better than Spiritbox but only has like 3000 montly listeners on Spotify.

Neko Case! The voice of God with red hair, I call her. Also her other supergroup band The New Pornographers is amazing. A one of a kind voice.

Also Drive-By Truckers should be considered a worldwide treasure.

Ozric Tentacles

Panpticon, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Chat Pile, Ashenspire, Swans, Obongjayar, Black Midi, and emancipator

Nineteen Forty-Five

Their debut album, Together We'll Burn Like Autumn Leaves is solid gold all the way through; the second studio album I Saw a Bright Light is almost as solid. I like them so much I tracked down all the members' previous bands and solo projects and B-sides.

Orebolo - 3 guys playing acoustic perfection.

Goose - same 3 guys from Orebolo, but with the rest of the band, non-acoustic, and some good jams.

Evade the Eye. Excellent guitar work, good songwriting. Genre: instrumental prog metal

Listening to Dadi Freyr right now!

Electric Storm by White Noise. Included the lady who recorded the Dr Who theme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Electric_Storm

Do they have to be recent or alive? If not:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - if there is any one person that can be attributed with inventing Rock'n'Roll, it is her, and she gets far too little credit for it. Watch this docu about her to find out more, or even better yet, listen to her songs.

Amigo the Devil - Cocaine and Abel, Perfect Wife, Murder at the Bingo Hall, Hell and You, Hungover in Jonestown... If one of these songs doesn't grab you, I don't think we can be friends

Froglord - The Mystic Toad, Wednesday, Army of Frogs

Snakemother - they only have one ~40 minute album, listen to it from start to finish. The first 5 minutes or so are pretty different than the rest so give it a chance.

Edit: came back to add Hippie Death Cult, my fave songs are Hornet Party, Nice to Know You, and Arise which is from the new album Helichrysum - worth giving the whole thing a listen as I think it's their best work to date

Kamaiyah

Destiny Potato. They released one spectacular album.

There's a really underrated band from Vancouver called Slightest Clue that just put out an album. Alternative/punk and very fun

The Revivalists are an incredible bluesy rock band, but everything of theirs on the radio is their blandest stuff. They really excel with live performances and amazing instrumentals.

"It Was a Sin" builds slow but gets really high energy by the end

"Soul Fight" has a top notch saxophone solo

Here's a full concert at Red Rocks

• All of Nerdcore really
• sleep token

katie dey https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7eYvkSWhpemCVpPm0Mg9tQ

BONES/ Surrender Dorothy. he's gained a lot more listeners over the past few years so more people are discovering his music

Caroline Polachek.

Cold blue

Weird Al Yankovich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonin Dvorak

Shilpa ray.

Here’s her audiotree live session, but if no one is going to invest 30 minutes into a new artist, at least check out this part, two of her best songs done in a sort of medley format.

I’ve seen her play a few times, once she was playing for free on a sidewalk, which seemed criminal to me, honestly. She’s way too good to be setting up her own shit and waiting while some bar owner’s nephew futzes with a shitty PA system. Second time she had her full band and it was hands down the best show I saw last year. And I saw a lot of great shows, KNOWER being one of them, mononeon, Sleafors Mods, Dry Cleaning…

Frontier Ruckus is a band that I grew up alongside. I shamelessly plug them whenever I get a chance. They make music about the places I grew up and sing about it in a way that makes me feel so close to it. Their new album just came out, but their first 2 albums are their standout. The Orion Songbook and Deadmalls and Nightfalls.

https://youtu.be/3tPsJoJp3HA?si=Q5HH0cQ6DskxWEuN

Bloodywood, an Indian folk/rap/metal group. Great stuff!

• Anderson .Paak: I know he's pretty popular but I feel like it's mostly because of his Silk Sonic stuff. His solo albums are great, especially Malibu. He's an incredibly talented musician and entertainer. I would strongly recommend anyone watch his Tiny Desk if you haven't already.

• Atlus: Pumps out a lot of music, not all of them are bangers. But he has a lot of good songs.

• Josh A / iamjakehill: I grouped them because they do a lot of music together but they are each fantastic on their own. Save Our Souls is such a great album.

• Brothers of Metal: Fun power metal band that makes music about Norse mythology. Makes you want to ride out into battle. I've shown this band to multiple people who are not metal/power metal fans and they love it.

• Lorna Shore: I know Through the Hellfire went viral and they are pretty popular for a Deathcore band. But they definitely deserve more recognition. I used to listen to a lot of Deathcore in high school 15 years ago and Lorna Shore single handedly got me back into it. I must've listened to all of Pain Remains at least 50 times. I can't get enough of Ramos's vocals and Archey's drumming.

• Light the Torch: If you loved Killswitch Engage with Howard Jones vocals then you will love this.