Some of my favorite bands:

feist
gossip
swords
pinback
anathallo
andrew bird
talkdemonic
pretty girls make graves
explosions in the sky
the decemberists
gregor samsa
wow & flutter
radiohead
tarentel
pj harvey
sonic youth
sleeping people
american analog set
red sparowes
from monument to masses
the mercury program
blonde redhead
don caballero
fleet foxes
ra ra riot
interpol
bjork
arcade fire
damon & naomi
yeah yeah yeahs
grails
the drift
the pixies
crime in choir
death cab for cutie
you say party! we say die!
the physics of meaning