Beatles, Doves, Big Wreck, Tea Party, Muse, Radiohead Oasis, Killers, Kent, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, Counting Crows, Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, K-OS, Talib Kweli, Blackstarr, Our Lady Peace, Biggy, Hi-tech, Jayhawks, Interpol, Kanye, Dodgy, Blue Rodeo, Missy Higgins, Coldplay, Bernard Fanning, The Futureheads, Gorillaz, Pete Murray, Billy Joel, NOFX, Guns and Roses, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Big League Chu, Cat Stevens, Blind Melon, Beastie Boys,Flaming Lips, The Dears, Gangstarr, Deltron, Jimmy Eat World, Led Zeppelin, Luis Armstrong, Manic Street Preachers, Matt Good, Mos Def, Paul Simon, Richard Ashcroft and so on and so forth
The Master and the Margarita, Solaris, Cat's Cradle, The Dark Tower Series, Green Grass Running Water, The Fountainhead, Dead Souls, At the End of the World and I must say that I find most religious texts interesting.