Music I Like  . . . and you might too

Genre-Mashing
Diablo Swing Orchestra Metal + swing + opera
Caravan Palace THE electro-swing band
The Dresden Dolls Drums + piano + female vocals
Rasputina Cello-rock from Louisiana
Parov Stelar Irresistibly danceable. Jazz + house
Johnny Hollow Spooky sounding industrial-cello
Voltaire Gothic with European folk influences
Kaizer's Orchestra Norwegian punk-rock.

Alt-Metal and Alt-Rock
Rishloo Tool meets Mars Volta
​Muse I'm old enough to like a band's old stuff. ☹
The Hives Swedish garage-rock
Tool 
A Perfect Circle Rock super-group
Puscifer Maynard's solo project
VAST A mix of industrial rock + world-music
Electric Six danceable disco-influenced rock
Chevelle
Black Light Burns
Placebo

Indie
Cake Still making good music. 
Pomplamoose (Jack Conte & Natalie Dawn)
Multi-instrumentalists. 
The Beards Aussies who sing about beards.
Anathallo Very light indie-rock
Mew Denmark's non-metal music export, with signature high male vocals.
Caro Emerald female jazz vocalist

​Metal
Mammal Under-appreciated Aussie alt-metal.
Lacuna Coil Italian Metal with a female vocalist
Nightwish Symphonic metal band, female lead
The Mars Volta Proof there's more than verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus.
Nine Inch Nails & We Are The Fallen industrial
Korn 
Marilyn Manson 
System of a Down

My last.fm profile is here.

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Hip-Hop
Flobots Hip-hop + violin + female backing vocalist
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Talent + message
Professor Elemental Chap-Hop
Butterfingers / Evil Eddie Aussie, with humour
Hilltop Hoods Australian.

​Chillout & Trance
Emancipator Spine tingling trip-hop. 
Portishead Spooky trip-hop/acid-jazz duo. 
Beats Antique Instrumental eastern tribal + beat 
The Dust Brothers The Fight Club soundtrack.
​The Glitch Mob Electronic / glitch-hop
UNKLE Electronica / trip-hop with strong beats. 
Juno Reactor World music influenced trance