The first decade of the 21st century feels like my home territory. I spent my teenage years in the 1990s catching up with the 1960s and 1970s, so the 2000s were the first decade in which I actively engaged with new music.
In the 2000s, music splintered further into sub-genres – it’s more difficult to find consensus favourites. Acts that I enjoy and would like to cover include Spoon, Girls Aloud, and Phoenix.
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For a band, there are essentially two different career trajectories for a recording career. Like Radiohead or The Beatles, you…
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Vanessa Carlton is best known for the 2002 hit ‘A Thousand Miles’ and singing backing vocals on the Counting Crows’…
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Caroline Polachek formed Chairlift with her college boyfriend Aaron Pfenning. The pair initially planned to make music for haunted houses.…
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The band most likely to win a Scrabble tournament, The Decemberists hail from Portland, Oregon, and are notable for flaunting their…
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Kathleen Edwards was born in Ottawa but spent part of her youth in Korea and Switzerland with her diplomat father.…
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Vocalist Craig Finn and guitarist Tab Kubler started their careers with the indie-rock band Lifter Puller. They formed The Hold…
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Miranda Lambert was born in Longview, Texas. Her parents were private detectives and then ran a shelter for abused women…
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Ray LaMontagne worked in a shoe factory in Maine. One morning he was woken by his alarm at 4 am…
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James Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem blurred the lines between electronic and rock music in the 21st century. Murphy’s original career plan…
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When Jenny Lewis released her first solo album in 2006, it was her third high-profile career. She’d already enjoyed success…
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Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam was born in London but spent most of her childhood in Sri Lanka, where her father was…
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Allan Carl Newman is best known as the driving force behind Vancouver’s indie-pop supergroup The New Pornographers. Newman started a…
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Canadian indie pop band The New Pornographers took their name from a 1966 Japanese anthropological film, The Pornographers. The term…
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Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams moved from Mississippi to Tennessee at the age of 13. She met Josh and Zac…
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Nebraskan-born singer-songwriter Josh Rouse grew up inspired by British bands like The Smiths and The Cure. His music reflects the…
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Iceland’s most famous post-rock band is named after the sister of singer/guitarist Jónsi Birgisson, who was born on the same…
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One of the most consistently fascinating musicians to emerge in the 21st century, Sufjan Stevens is nominally an alt-folk artist,…
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Transatlantic are a progressive rock supergroup, plucking members from other successful neo-prog acts. Bassist Pete Trewavas has been a member…
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There are many examples in popular music of stripping away the superfluity and getting back to basics. But it doesn’t…
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This page collects miscellaneous reviews for artists who don’t have their own page. Coldplay Parachutes 2000, 5.5/10As Radiohead retreated from…
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