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Rock'n'Roll from the future
(60's/Northern) Soul, Girl Groups, Ska, Rocksteady, Skinhead Reggae, Dub, (power/60's psych/dream/brit/mod) Pop, Freakbeat, Mercybeat, Bluebeat, Breakbeats, Rapping to the Beat, Manchester, (Hammond/latin/bebop) Jazz, Boogaloo, Doo Wop, Indie (not emo), Shoegazer, New (Nu) wave, Garage, Electronica/Synth pop, Oi, Rockabilly/Psychobilly, Surf. . .
Alton Ellis,
Apples in Stereo,
Architecture in Helsinki,
Aretha Franklin,
Arizona,
Arrested Development,
Asobi Seksu,
Badly Drawn Boy,
Bad Manners,
Band of Bees,
Bedouin Soundclash,
Belle and Sebastian,
Ben Folds,
Beruit,
Beulah,
Billy Bragg,
Bim Skala Bim,
Bloc Party,
Blondie,
Blue Sky Addicts,
Blur,
Booker T and the MGs,
Brenda Holloway,
Brenton Wood,
British Sea Power,
Broken Social Scene,
Buju Banton,
Camera Obscura,
Camper Van Beethoven,
Cat Power,
Chapterhouse,
Charles Mingus,
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah,
Celestial,
Client,
Clifford Brown,
Clinic,
Clue J and His Blues Blasters,
Cocksparrer,
Conway Twitty,
Cornelius,
Cornershop,
Cynthia Richards,
Datarock,
David Bowie,
Dean and Britta,
Delroy Wilson,
Demitri In Paris,
Derrick Morgan,
Desmond Dekker,
Devo,
Diana Ross,
Dizzy Gillespie,
Dogs Die in Hot Cars,
Dressy Bessy,
Eagle Seagull,
Edwin Starr,
Elastica,
Electrelane,
Elf Power,
Elvis Costello and the Attractions,
Ernest Ranglin,
Errol Dunkley,
Face to Face,
Field Music,
Fishbone,
Flogging Molly,
Fontella Bass,
Forget Cassettes,
From Bubblegum To Sky,
Free Loan Investments,
Frou Frou,
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames,
Gomez,
Grand Ole Party,
Greenday,
Hepcat,
Hot Hot Heat,
Ima Robot,
I'm From Barcelona,
Interpol,
Jackie Mitto,
Jackie Wilson,
James,
James Brown,
Jazzbo,
Jenny Lewis,
Jens Lekman,
Jim Noir,
Johnny Cash,
Jose Gonzalez,
Justice,
Kanda,
Ken Boothe,
Kings of Convenience,
King Stitt,
Klaxons,
Ladytron,
Language of Flowers,
Laurel Aitken,
Lee Perry,
Lily Allen,
Lisa Loeb,
Lord Creator,
Lord Tanamo,
Love,
Love and Rockets,
Luna,
Madness,
Majestic,
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas,
Mando Diao,
Mary Wells,
MC5,
Metric,
Murder City Devils,
Nina Simone,
Norah Jones,
Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl,
Ocean 11,
Otis Redding,
Outkast,
Pas/Cal,
Pavement,
Peter, Bjorn and John,
Phylis Dillon,
Pinback,
Plastic Mastery,
P.P. Arnold,
Prince Buster,
Pulp,
Ray Charles,
Red Sleeping Beauty,
R.E.M,
Ride,
Rilo Kiley,
Rogue Wave,
Sam and Dave,
Sam Cooke,
See Spot,
Serge Gainsbourg,
Sham 69,
Shiny Toy Guns,
Shout Out Louds,
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles,
Sondre Lerche,
Sonny Rollins,
Soundclash,
Stars,
Stereo Total,
Stevie Wonder,
Suede,
Supergrass,
Supernova,
Symarip,
Talking Heads,
Teddybears Sthlm,
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists,
The Acid House Kings,
The Action,
The Adjusters,
The Aggrolites,
The Aislers Set,
The Animals,
The Arcade Fire,
The Arrogants,
The Beach Boys,
The Beat,
The Beatles,
The Beautiful South,
The Besties,
The Bigger Lovers,
The Bleechers,
The Blues Busters,
The Body Snatchers,
The Boo Radley's,
The Box Tops,
The Brian Jonestown Massacre,
The Briggs,
The Business,
The Caesars,
The Cardigans,
The Cars,
The Chairmen of the Board,
The Charlatans,
The Chords,
The Clarendonians,
The Clash,
The Clean,
The Concretes,
The Consultants,
The Creation,
The Cure,
The Dandy Warhols,
The Dead Boys,
The Dead 60s,
The Dears,
The Decemberists,
The Delgados,
The Dropkick Murphy's,
The Essex Green,
The Ethiopians,
The Features,
The Fields,
The Films,
The Foo Fighters,
The Free Design,
The Frenchkicks,
The Go! Team,
The Gorillaz,
The Greenhornes,
The Gresham Flyers,
The Helio Sequence,
The Hippy Boys,
The Hot Rod Allstars,
The House Martins,
The Inciters,
The "International" Noise Conspiracy,
The Jackson 5,
The Jam,
The Jurassic 5,
The Kinks,
The La's,
The Lucksmiths,
The Magnetic Fields,
The Melodians,
The Merton Parkas,
The Meteors,
The Midnight Movies,
The Moment,
The Move,
The Music Machine,
The Nekromantix,
The New Pornographers,
The Ordinary Boys,
The Originals,
The Paragons,
The Pat Metheny Group,
The Perishers,
The Pietasters,
The Pioneers,
The Pipettes,
The Pixies,
The Pizzicato Five,
The Plimsouls,
The Pogues,
The Police,
The Polyphonic Spree,
The Primates,
The Prisoners,
The Purple Hearts,
The Radio Dept.,
The Ramones,
The Raspberries,
The Realistics,
The Remains,
The Rentals,
The Rezillos,
The Riots,
The Rolling Stones,
The Romantics,
The Rosebuds,
The Scene,
The Scientists,
The Secret Affair,
The Seeds,
The Selecter,
The Sheds,
The Shermans,
The Shins,
The Shout Out Louds,
The 6ths,
The Skatalites,
The Slackers,
The Slickers,
The Small Faces,
The Smiths,
The Softies,
The Softlightes,
The Soulutions,
The Specials,
The Starlight Mints,
The Stone Roses,
The Stranglers,
The Strokes,
The Stylistics,
The Sundays,
The Supremes,
The Techniques,
The Templars,
The Tender Idols,
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players,
The Trash Talk Bowlers,
The Trojans,
The Upsetters,
The Velvet Underground,
The Weather Report,
The Who,
The Zombies,
They Might Be Giants,
Tilly and the Wall,
Tommy McCook,
Travis,
Trembling Blue Stars,
True Love Always,
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra,
Toots and the Maytals,
Tsunami Bomb,
Valient Thorr,
Vince Guaraldi,
Vista:Four,
Weezer,
Willy Nelson,
Wilson Pickett,
Would-Be-Goods,
Yeah Yeah Yeah's,
Yellow Bentines,
Yeska,
Zero 7
-New York Doll,
-Little Miss Sunshine,
-Chumscrubber,
-Winter Passing,
-Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,
-Murder Ball,
-Napolean Dynamite,
-Lemony Snickett,
-LOTR,
-Rushmore,
-The Royal Tenenbaums,
-Bottle Rocket,
-The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou,
-Amelie,
-Harold and Maude,
-In America,
-Braveheart,
-Nightmare Before Christmas,
-Edward Scissorhands,
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
-Star Wars,
-The Godfather,
-Waiting for Gufman,
-Spinal Tap,
-Harder They Come,
-Dance Craze,
-The House of Yes,
-Charolette's Web,
-Cable Guy,
-Meet the Parents,
-Mystery Men,
-Clifford,
-Gross Point Blank,
-Mars Attacks,
-Sean of the Dead,
-High Fidelity,
-24 Hour Party People,
-Quadrephenia,
-The Three Amigos,
-Zoolander,
-Old School,
-Anchorman,
-Kung Fu Hustle,
-The Shawshank Redemption,
-The Last Dragon,
-Tommy Boy,
-Ghost World,
-American Beauty,
-Big Fish,
-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,
-Garden State,
-Young Frankenstien,
-Austin Powers Trilogy,
-The Shining (scariest movie ever)
-CQ,
-My Man Flynt,
-In Like Flynt,
-Lost in Translation,
-A Mighty Wind,
-Best in Show,
-Dodge Ball,
-Starsky and Hutch,
-Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind,
-Raiders trilogy,
-Glitter
. . . Anything starring Rachael Leigh Cook!
The Office, My Name is Earl, The Simpsons, MythBusters, The Young Ones, Webster, The Avengers, The Munsters, Batman, That 70's Show, Old SNL, SCTV, The Ben Stiller Show, Whose line is it Anyway, Taxi, The Upright Citizens Brigade, In Living Color, The Family Guy, The Cosby Show!
The Fountainhead, The Alchemist, High Fidelity, Song Book, A Long Way Down, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire, Siddartha, The Davinci Code, Fahrenheit 451, Watership Down, Lord of the Rings, The Invisible Man, The Giver, The Wanderer, Memoirs Of A Geisha, The Color Purple, A Clockwork Orange, I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings, The Great Gatsby, A Confederacy Of Dunces, The Giving Tree, Chronicles of Narnia, There Is A Monster At The End Of This Book (I Adore Children's Books), Truth In Comedy, Improvise.
Luckily, my heroes are my best friends.