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…
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Vanessa Carlton is best known for the 2002 hit ‘A…
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Caroline Polachek formed Chairlift with her college boyfriend Aaron Pfenning.…
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The band most likely to win a Scrabble tournament, The Decemberists…
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Kathleen Edwards was born in Ottawa but spent part of…
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Vocalist Craig Finn and guitarist Tab Kubler started their careers…
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Miranda Lambert was born in Longview, Texas. Her parents were…
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Ray LaMontagne worked in a shoe factory in Maine. One…
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James Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem blurred the lines between electronic and…
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When Jenny Lewis released her first solo album in 2006,…
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Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam was born in London but spent most…
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Allan Carl Newman is best known as the driving force…
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Canadian indie pop band The New Pornographers took their name…
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Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams moved from Mississippi to Tennessee…
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Nebraskan-born singer-songwriter Josh Rouse grew up inspired by British bands…
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Iceland’s most famous post-rock band is named after the sister…
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One of the most consistently fascinating musicians to emerge in…
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Transatlantic are a progressive rock supergroup, plucking members from other…
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There are many examples in popular music of stripping away…
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This page collects miscellaneous reviews for artists who don’t have…
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