BANDS!

If you happen to become worn out of the same old music you listen to over and over again, well boy do I have a list for you. During dull moments in class, I tend to jot down a list of bands/duos that I love instead of subject notes, because I have terrible short attention span. Now I'm going to transfer my appalling handwritten list to this blog post to express how much of a band aficionado I am. 

(If you click on the band names it will direct you to a youtube or last.fm playlist of their most popular songs. Press Ctrl+F if you wish to find a specific band you would like to search for.)

**THE FOLLOWING LISTS MAY INCLUDE DUOS AND OTHER BANDS MAY BE CLASSIFIED AS BOTH ROCK AND ALTERNATIVE. THEY ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, EXCEPT FOR MY TOP 5's**

(punk/rock/metal/classic rock)

   
1. PANIC! AT THE DISCO

2. FALL OUT BOY

3. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

4. ALL TIME LOW

5. MAYDAY PARADE

You Me At Six     The Academy Is...     Pierce the Veil     Sleeping With Sirens     The Maine

We The Kings     The Summer Set     Tonight Alive     Forever the Sickest Kids     Boys Like Girls

We Are The In Crowd     Go Radio     Of Mice & Men     This Century     Every Avenue     Artist vs Poet

A Rocket to the Moon     The All American-Rejects     Marianas Trench     The Cab     Parachute

The Downtown Fiction     Coldplay     Bring Me the Horizon     Paramore     The Used     Yellowcard

Taking Back Sunday     Senses Fail     Pencey Prep     A Day to Remember     Memphis May Fire

We Came as Romans     Blink-182     +44     Snow Patrol     Green Day     Muse     U2     Kings of Leon

Foo Fighters     The Strokes     Nirvana     Pearl Jam     The Killers     The Vaccines     Arctic Monkeys

Queens of the Stone Age     The Black Keys     Editors     The White Stripes     White Lies     Incubus

The Friday Night Boys     Nine Inch Nails     The Police     30 Seconds to Mars     Deftones     Korn

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus     Saosin     Saves the Day     Rage Against the Machine    One Day as a Lion

Linkin Park     The Rolling Stones     Led Zeppelin     The Who     Aerosmith     Pink Floyd    Black Sabbath

The Beatles     Guns n' Roses     Metallica     Queen     AC/DC     Bullet For My Valentine     Sugar Ray

Def Leppard     Sum 41     Rise Against     Black Veil Brides     Motionless in White     Crown the Empire

Cute Is What We Aim For     Falling In Reverse     Iron Maiden     Escape the Fate     Smash Mouth

Avenged Sevenfold     Three Days Grace     Breaking Benjamin     System of a Down     Alter Bridge

Evanescence     Radiohead     Skillet     Papa Roach     Disturbed     Ramones     Sex Pistols     The Clash

Black Flag     Misfits     Nickelback     The Damned     Comeback Kid     The Vandals    The Replacements

The Dead Kennedys     Bowling For Soup     Allister     Bad Religion     Operation Ivy     Propagandhi

Streetlight Manifesto    Bad Brains     Against Me!     Leftover Crack     Rancid     Choking Victim    NOFX

Dropkick Murphys     Stiff Little Fingers     Minutemen     Subhumans     The Adicts     7 Seconds     GBH

Catch 22     The Filaments     Lower Class Brats     Conflict     Against All Authority     The Offspring

The Members     Pennywise     The Story So Far     Sparks the Rescue     Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!

Man Overboard     State Champs     Off With Their Heads     I Call Fives     Patent Pending     Relient K

The Wonder Years     Jimmy Eat World     Good Charlotte     Set Your Goals     Such Gold     Citizen

(indie/alternative/electronic)

1. IMAGINE DRAGONS

2. THE 1975

3. BASTILLE

4. VAMPIRE WEEKEND

5. PASSION PIT

Phoenix     Of Monsters and Men     Haim     The Lumineers     Mumford and Sons     Foster the People

Bombay Bicycle Club     Two Door Cinema Club     The Kooks     The Neighbourhood     Kodaline

To Kill a King     Tegan and Sara     The Head and the Heart     MGMT     Grouplove     The Wombats

The Mowgli's     The Naked and the Famous     Young the Giant     CHVRCHES     Ms Mr     Ra Ra Riot

The Paper Kites     Smallpools     Magic Man     Youngblood Hawke     The Colourist     Echosmith

American Authors     New Politics     The Royal Concept     Phantogram     M83     The Joy Formidable

Warpaint     Tokyo Police Club     Neon Trees     Noah and the Whale     Capital Cities     Atlas Genius

Empire of the Sun     Daughter     Crystal Fighters     Avalanche City     Architecture in Helsinki     The xx

The Temper Trap     Florence + the Machine     Cage the Elephant    The Fratellis     The Avett Brothers

Sir Sly     Cold War Kids    Swim Deep     Fitz and the Tantrums     AWOLNATION     Thumpers

Death Cab For Cutie     New Radicals     Temples     Arcade Fire     The Decemberists     The Districts

The Local Natives     Wild Club     Drowners     Holy Ghost!     Alt-J     The Ting-Tings     Fun.     Wavves

The Asteroid Galaxy Tour     The Drums     Yeah Yeah Yeahs     The Smiths     Woodkid     Pixies

Motion City Soundtrack     Starfucker     Under the Influence of Giants     The Hold Steady     The Unicorns

The National     Joy Division     Dinosaur Jr.     The War on Drugs     Daft Punk     Walk off the Earth

Of Montreal     Metric     The Veils     Feist     Modest Mouse     Animal Collective     Fleet Foxes

Churchill     The Last Royals     Bloc Party     Pacific Air     Blondfire     Nada Surf     Bon Iver     Wilco

The Submarines     The Smashing Pumpkins     Dresses     St. Vincent     Tune-Yards     Matt and Kim

The Good, The Bad & The Queen     Hellogoodbye     Plain White T's     My Morning Jacket     Woods

Dirty Projectors     Spoon     She & Him     TV on the Radio     Grizzly Bear     Micachu & the Shapes

The Antlers     Vivian Girls     Neon Indian     The Postal Service     The Shins     Bat For Lashes

Japandroids     Crystal Castles     Here We Go Magic     Ratatat     Deerhunter     Pavement     Yeasayer

The Fiery Furnaces    Neutral Milk Hotel     Chromeo     Belle and Sebastian     LCD Soundsystem

Foals     Franz Ferdinand     Okkervil River     The Jesus and Mary Chain     Silversun Pickups    Golf Fields

Icona Pop     San Cisco     Last Dinosaurs     Palma Violets     Broken Bells     Metronomy     Tame Impala

I also stumbled upon this website from way back and it helped me discover new music. All you have to do is type in a performer (singer, band, duo, etc.), click on the circle that will appear and expand. The map grows as you continue to expand, then you'll find yourself exploring Youtube or Google to check out the wide variety of music artists.

Also, if you go to youtube.com/disco, you can type in any artist or song; it will show you a playlist of the songs related to what you have searched. That's what I used to direct the band names.

I hope I helped you in finding more music to listen to. This is not a complete list. I would appreciate if you suggest some other bands/artists that you like, so I could check them out as well!!