The list of the 40 best American acts currently touring or releasing new music may be very alt-rockist for some tastes (Sufjan Stevens at No. Read the full post.
Nov 18
2005
02:51 PM ET
The 40 best musical acts in America
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What about Sheryl Crow? She has just released her fifth studio album and is poised to win big time come awards season. She has a whopping 9 Grammys already and has sold millions of albums world-wide. It is truly amasing that at over 40, she is still as relevant to the music scene as she was when she started.
Way to go Sheryl!
Jason, Hip Hop isn’t in a creative black hole, it’s just that capitalism has a stronghold on it and so the images of the ridiculous are what is selling to white america. The process began a while back but lately has been maximized in artists like 50 cent and the Ying Yang twins.
But the real wordsmiths are there, as they always have been. MF Doom/Zev is one of them. Atmosphere is another. De La. etc.
Doom and Kanye make the list and there are a lot more hip hoppers that would get notice were it not for the selling of the gangsta image by corporations to the buying public.
The Decembrists definitely deserved to make the top 10 on that list; they’re one of those rare bands whose lyrics could almost stand alone as mini stories. After I bought their newest album I found myself listening to it with the lyrics in my hands, like I used to do with storybook records as a kid. LCD Soundsystem (#4) didn’t really do anything for me, though. Maybe I have to hear them in concert or watch the music videos? They sound a bit too close to The Fall on a lot of the songs (and early-`70s Brian Eno, on “Great Release”).
Out of the (many!) good American bands they left off this list, I wish they’d included …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. If the Mars Volta are like a punk King Crimson, then the Trail of Dead are becoming a punk (Peter Gabriel-era) Genesis. Their most recent album has a similar epic feel but isn’t a carbon copy of their influences.
Thank you for saying that, Flip. I was just about to. Hip Hop is more than what you see on MTV.
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