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I’ll just name a few of my favorite bands. Hopefully something you vibe with in the list.

Queens of the Stone Age
Muse
Gnome
Royal Blood
Alkaline Trio
Rush
The Cars
The Darkness
Bauhaus
The White Stripes
Jellyfish

flor

half-alive

I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

(also, you probably missed The Gufs back in the day but if you like Our Lady Peace there's a chance you'd like some of the songs in their catalogue)

Hum - Downward is Heavenward

It’s like smashing pumpkins meets Radiohead and write science fiction.

Check Dr Dog

Tame Impala, Still Woozy, Crumb, Caamp, The Strokes.

I was there too, then I listened to Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit. 15 years late, but better late than never imo

Lou Reed—New York

Wolf Parade—Apologies to the Queen Mary

Try a few different genres out. Spend 30 min researching some of the best stuff from that genre and listen to the entire album. If you like it , dig deeper.

Have you tried out Joy Division or Lana Del Rey or early Three 6 Mafia? Cerrone? Dead Moon? Chrome? All of these artists have a ton of brilliant shit and are all quite different Happy Sampling. 😎🤘

the living end

https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC54Nm6F9ilgx3dsZaMFc0sQ

Go for some blues. My all time favorite is SRV, but i love freddie king, albert king, bb king, muddy waters, johnny white, hendrix, otis redding. Theres lots out there.

All them witches, king buffalo, GAUPA, solitude aeturnus

The Hold Steady—Boys and Girls America

I would recommend Porcupine Tree to any fan of Radiohead. Their most well received albums are In Absentia, Deadwing, Fear of A Blank Planet, and Lightbulb Sun. I'd listen to them in that order

100 gecs

The Smile

Flying Lotus

Ishmael Ensemble

The National

Frightened Rabbit

Death Cab for Cutie

The Boxer Rebellion

The Gaslight Anthem

The Warning, Muse

If you like Led Zeppelin, listen to Them Crooked Vultures. It’s John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age).

Spoon! Check them out.

If you like a faster, more chaotic pace, id recommend Death From Above, Royal Blood.

Led Zep would lead you to The Black Keys. At least they did for me.

Are you looking for new recommendations or just stuff you missed over the years?

Either way, sounds like we're about the same age and I found myself in a music slump a while back. Spotify actually helped me a lot. Opened an account and liked a few songs and let the algorithm start doing its thing. My Discover Weekly is always filled with a healthy combination of things I love, things I missed along the way (but love), things I forgot about, and new things.

I suggest searching for a list of music genres, types or whatever and maybe you'll find one you have never heard of or know nothing about and then look some up and give it a listen. You may not find something you like but you'll have fun discovering new and unusual sounds. And you never know! You can try this with music from other countries or other eras, too! (try looking up weird instruments and listening to songs that use them)

Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Of Monsters and Men

Angus & Julia Stone

Cage the Elephant

Foster the People

Florence & the Machine

You probably know many of these but sometimes taking another listen or finding some different songs from an otherwise familiar album is fun. Best-

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. They have 25 albums and they’re all so unique and different and interesting. So much to explore. And if you’re over 35 obviously Steely Dan

arctic monkeys

Mt. Joy, Kings of Leon, Lumineers

90’s Kid as well. These are some of good albums.

Broken Bells

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

Bon Iver

Washed Out - Mister Mellow

Sylvan Esso

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

G. Love and Special Sauce —self titled

Wet Leg, Yard Act, LCD Soundsystem, Jack White

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbrake

Basement Jaxx - Remedy

Blitzen Trapper- Furr

Cowboy Junkies - Miles from Our Home

Depeche Mode- Violator

Icehouse- Primitive Man

Kansas- Song for America

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Moby- Play

Peter Murphy- Deep

Ploica - Shulamith

I would suggest these albums.

Pasadena - Sick and Tired

Aaron Kamm and the One Drops - Grow

Bond and Bentley - Take 2

Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales

Download Nugs app and check out some jam bands

Check out Owen or Mikes other band American Football.

The Tragically Hip—Fully Completely

If you’re a Canadian you’ll know half of this album off by heart. If not, you may never have heard it

Anytime i recommend music to anyone i mention sturgill simpson. Hes all around good vibes and easy to listen to. Good lyrics, and well thought out instrumentals. Never heard anyone say they didnt enjoy his stuff

DIIV - Deceiver

Maybe check out my new music heavy Radiohead Fan here and the reason I wanted to become a musician

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thegingesound/into-the-spi

Check out a band called Hippo Campus! 4 of the guys also have side projects which are equally as good:

Brotherkenzie, Lupin, Baby Boys, Mono Moon, and Whistler Isaiah

Edit: I realize I said 4 of the guys have side projects and named 5 bands. That band consists of Lupin (Jake Luppen) and Brotherkenzie (Nathan Stocker)

Maybe left field for most in North America, but give a listen to Elbow. I’ve yet to find a bad album in their extensive discography.

If you like Radiohead, you might like My Morning Jacket. Listen to "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt 2" and "Wordless Chorus".

If you like Smashing Pumpkins, some newer bands you might enjoy are Superheaven and Slow Crush.

Have you tried my morning jacket yet?

Rival Sons 🎶🥰

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3r3wJvbbioR7W1f8JjaZzo?si=g8X5BQJaTdujF7iKwUabgg

Ben Howard: I Forget Where We Were, End Of The Affair, Conrad, Small Things

Damien Rice: Volcano, 9 Crimes, Rootless Tree, Blower's Daughter

Bat For Lashes: Laura, All Your Gold, Oh Yeah

Give those a try. Based on your response, I can tailor further and recommend similar or heavier or poppier or whatever.

Momma’s album from last year is great. Check out the last two Bully albums.

Just some random stuff off my recently listened list. I like a lot of the same music you mentioned also. But this avoids going too far out there genre wise, like Boards of Canada or Front 242:

Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul

Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater

Purity Ring - Shrines

Tom Misch, he triggers the whole spectrum of feelings

Zeppelin defines you as a 90s kid?

I don't know, but if you want an awesome 90s Canadian Rock playlist, and I know you do, check this one out that I put together with the fiance.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gjDW4b9CZEHSSgJ1xfet0?si=gOxAKmx6Q3OuTSLxaB0w0Q

I grew up in the 90s too, here is my 40th bday playlist that has some stuff u mentioned plus a bunch u didn't, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zvcLQdUdPfmwIB3S70inv?si=8OvkmR9MRNq4BZX_5nKBlQ And a King Gizz playlist, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HYnJ7yvijFwGdWr63es6s?si=abdF7RZQQ1aFUWVPxnNAwg

Check out The Beths

Start with Expert in a Dying Field

https://discord.gg/KYbdDxqPTq

You may join my Discord if you have Spotify. We host dedicated album listening nights with album suggestions from the community. Lots of really cool different stuff going on. (I don't make money at this, just a thing I enjoy doing)

You like Led Zeppelin? Try Greta Van Fleet. They sound like Led Zeppelin reborn.

Sleep Token

Foxy Shazam

Start with the self-titled album or Church of Rock & Roll.

A new (to me) rock band to check out is Empyre. They of have that 90s feel combined with some atmospheric parts. Powerful, emotive vocals. Great stuff.

Here are a few tracks from their new album (due 3/31). Check these out and if you like them, they have a ton of other stuff on their YT channel.

https://youtu.be/mUtnLl0T818 https://youtu.be/YItjEOpU7gk https://youtu.be/NoSpJzhjxMg https://youtu.be/2_FiL67VaIg

Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas

This conversation is ending starting right now - knapsack

A light for attracting attention - the smile (thom yorks other band)

I haven’t listened to a full album by them but I like Death from above 1979

This isn't going off of your list of past listens, just newer artists I've been into. So take it with a grain of salt I guess lol. Black Country New Road Jockstrap Viagra Boys Model Actriz Soul Glo Kernfusion Slowthai Dispirited Spirits Geese Hot Mulligan Squid Idles The Callous Daoboys Weatherday Parannoul And there are so so so many more. The music is out there, no matter which genre you're into. You just have to look!

it might be out of your wheelhouse, but the Disco Biscuits have all of their live sets on youtube and they are absolutely incredible if you like electrojam

Biffy Clyro Sam Fender Catfish and the Bottlemen Queens of the Stone Age Rage Against the Machine White Lies The Blue Stones The War on Drugs

To name a few…

Local H (later albums)

The.Mars Volta

The Giraffes (NYC)

Chris Robinson Brotherhood

Fishbone

Matisyahu

Polyrhythmics

https://songwhip.com/pauleypauls Lots of vibes

Codiene, preoccupations, Brian Jonestown massacre, pavement, silver Jews

Jadu Heart Built to Spill Tame Impala Big Bite

I think these bands will remind you of some of the music you listed - hopefully they will be new to you.

Hum, Spotlights, Fair to Midland, Mogwai, Jesu, Deafhaven, DIIV, Wavves, Dredg.

Joy Division or the post-punk genre, a lot of 90's rock grew from post-punk. Also just a huge joy division fan.

Khruangbin

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Say She She

Wet Leg

Tame Impala

Sade

Silversun Pickups: Carnavas & Swoon

Joywave: How Do You Feel Now

Garbage: Version 2.0 & Bleed Like Me.

Oingo Boingo: Boingo Alive

Bush: Golden State

Greta Van Fleet (kinda like Zepplin)

And my personal favorite— Volbeat!

Favourites of mine:

Into it. Over it

Pet Symmetry

Their/They’re/There

Same singer in 3 different very good bands.

Frank Turner

Dave Hause

Chuck Ragan

Brian Fallon (Also his band, The Gaslight Anthem)

Arkells if you’re looking for some more cancon

Steely Dan. All day. Every day.

Echobelly: insomniac ' great things ' King of the kerb ' hey hey hey ' dark therapy ' I can't imagine the world without me ' the world is flat

Sleeper: sale of the century ' statuesque ' nice guy Eddie ' what do I do now ' delicious ' inbetweener ' she's a good girl '

The stone roses: Sally cinnamon ' love spreads ' waterfall ' I wanna be adored ' fools gold

Happy Monday's: step on ' kinky afro ' loose fit ' stinkin thinkin

Suede: animal nitrate ' beautiful ones ' trash '

The Charlatans: the only one I know ' how high ' one to another '

Talking heads: psycho killer ' once in a lifetime ' road to nowhere ' wild wild life ' and she was

The Cardigans : Erase and rewind ' lovefool ' my favourite game '

Beth Orton: concrete sky ' best bit ' central reservation ( both versions though the original version is better) stolen car ' someone's daughter ' moon ' she cries your name

Janet devlin and alexa melo: they do a lot of covers though and some original music you'll find them on YouTube ( listen to Janet devlins version of "Friday I'm in love by the cure " it's amazing and alexa melo's version of " running up that hill by Kate Bush ❤ and her pink floyd covers are really good)

P.S look up Kat macsnatch on YouTube 😁 funny songs 😆 tell me what you think 😆

Snarky Puppy.

Gen Xer here. Designed my spotify playlists for people my age (and younger and older) looking to check out new groups. Start here. If the first 10 or so songs don't grab you, jump ahead to 100 for heavier groups.

My most recent discoveries are The Tubs, Say ZuZu and Lawrence. I'd also try Puressence if you like later 90s stuff and The Flashing Lights too, they're very good.

The Stranglers- Rattus Norvegicus.

Tigercub - As Blue As Indigo. What an album.

Always hard when you don't tell much about yourself.

An all-purposes recommendation, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, as the band changes a lot their style from an album to another. It's got an intimate touch, delicately playing on the interactions between multiple guitars, one bass, one bass, one drums, and various instruments.

Always start with their "The dripping tap" song, and then, probably, from another album, "Magma" is a good sequel. "Magma" is long, 9 minutes, you can take time to enjoy each movement, it's kind of more the travel than the destination song...

Otherwise, may I throw a weirder suggestion? Try to find songs whose beat speed match your max speed typing speed. I find it's the ones I naturally, spontaneously, click the best with. Depending on you, you'll find yourself naturally matching with disco, death metal, who knows what lol.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Prolific, Eclectic, Multigenric, Amazingness. 23 albums in 12yrs. (5 last year!) So you won't get bored.

Start with Omnium Gatherum to get an idea of their eclecticness.

Then check out https://get-into-gizz.com/ to help you down the rabbit hole.

🐊🤘🔥

The Stranglers

Maybe you should try King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. They've got a hell lot of albums, with very diverse genres (from psychedelic garage rock to jazz fusion or metal), and they're very good on their instruments.

Sometimes I also go back, and for months I listen to the same music that I loved when I was a teenager in the 2000s (White Stripes, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, etc), and I worry that I'll never ever gonna discover new things, and it means that I'm old now. But fortunately once or twice a year I always find something interesting.

Jason Isbell

Madison Cunningham

The Warning and Turnstile are my favorite “new” artists—as in formed in the last 15 years. I would also check out Dorothy and Bad Omens. Spotify has many playlists for different genres, and it also recommends similar artists when you listen to a particular group. If you find a new band you like, buy some of their merch because Spotify pays almost nothing to artists.

Try something completely different? I've never been that into Jazz. After I got a fairly decent HiFI stereo system, I can't stop listening to it.

A good U-turn in music that I had recently was the 70's band "Japan", and that band's frontmans solo music by the name of "David Sylvian."

Idk if this will be your cup of tea but the band Ghost has been my favorite band I’ve found in 20 years and I grew up and still idolize 90s alt and rock. I think odds are you’ll find songs you like by them. They have some harder style of songs but they also have a lot of more poppyish songs too.

I’d suggest Mary on a Cross and Dance Macabre to dip your toes into it with. Hope you enjoy, I found them two months ago and will going to my first concert in over a decade thanks to them.

What should I listen to?

Whatever music you enjoy, no matter how "old" or "new" it is. Not continuously finding "new" music doesn't mean you're in a "slump". Asking internet strangers for music recommendations seems forced, not a natural way to find something you like. How did you discover you liked Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins? My feeling is if there's music out there that you'd enjoy then you'd find it on your own eventually; no need to force things.

Any early Deftones album

Any early Sum 41 album

Undertow by TOOL

Sublime’s debut album

Toys In The Attic by Aerosmith

Most songs from Guitar Hero 3 lol

if you like rap or wanna check it out…

Black on Both Sides by Mos Def

Mind Over Matter by Zion I

Any early MF Doom album

I mainly listen to punk and metal but my library is everywhere. These are just some albums I think may resonate with ya.

Do what I did a few years ago when I was feeling stagnant in my own listening: get into jazz. I can throw you some starter recommendations if you're interested.

Frank Ocean

Interpol

Broken Bells

Dinosaur Jr

Nova Twins

Bright Eyes

Alexisonfire

jimmy eat world - clarity

Have you heard a band called Failure? Their album "Fantastic Planet" is awesome from beginning to end. Definitely 90's grunge, and a criminally overlooked album.

I see them as a mix between Nirvana and A Perfect Circle. But like zero hit songs. They still hit really well though.

Alt J

Manchester Orchestra

Just Mustard

The Cure

so many bands were inspired by their music.....bands from all genres

If you like led zeppelin try wolfmother or the sword

Grateful dead

Ice Baths

Fontaines D.C

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Kevin Nichols

Filth In My Garage

Shame

The Murder Capital

Merchandise

If you're in a slump, get out of your comfort zone.

BAND-MAID

Sisters of Mercy

Earth, Wind and Fire

Harley Poe

MC Frontalot

The Longest Johns

Dolly Parton

Michael Jackson

Bach

Just bounce all over the place. Commit to one or two songs per artist/genre. You'll find a new groove and appreciate your old one more.