Music:
Member Since: 4/14/2006
Influences:
Music-
Belle and Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Metric, Kings of Convenience, Smog, The Pixies, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Spoon, Pavement, The Sea and Cake, Eagles of Death Metal, Will Oldham, Iron and Wine, The Strokes, Sparklehorse, Broadcast, Simon & Garfunkel, Cornelius, Rob Crow, Kings of Leon, The Devil Makes Three, Beck, Smashing Pumkins, The Beatles, Elliot Smith, Jamie Lidell, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, Tom Waits, Death From Above 1979, St. Vincent, Pedro the Lion, Wilco, The Sundays, Shuggie Otis, Iggy Pop, Andrew Bird, The White Stripes, Devendra Banhart, The Bad Plus, Animal Collective, The Cure, The Modern Lovers, The Clientele, Deerhoof, David Bowie, Sebadoh, The Black Keys, Brian Eno, Frank Black, The Kinks, Archie Bronson, Roy Orbison, King Crimson, Peter Tosh, The Beach Boy's, Kaiser Chiefs, Junior Reid, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, The Books, The Unicorns, Tortoise, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Radiohead, The Aluminum Group, Neil Young, Toots and the Maytals, The Police, The Shins, Peter Bjorn, Jimmy Hendrix
Hip-Hop-
Tribe Called Quest, Jurrasic 5, Mosley Wotta and Driftwood Insomnia (represent!), Person People, Guru, Astronautalis, Aesop Rock, The Roots, Madlib, Busdriver, Rjd2, Haiku De'Etat, Aceyalone, Myka 9, The Streets, Abstract Rude, Buck 65, MF Doom
Jazz-
Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann, Dave Brubeck, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bud Powell, Herbie Hancock, Eldar Djangirov, Max Roach, Wynton Marsalis, Herb Alpert, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Art Blakley, Art Tatum, George Gershwin Ennio Morricone, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett, Ornette Coleman, Albert Daily, Jim Hall, Count Basie, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Gil Evans, Chick Corea, Poncho Sanchez, Tito Puente, Jaco Pastorius, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington
Voice-
Billie Eckstine, Madeleine Peyroux, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Sara Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Della Reese, Etta James, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Freda Payne, Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, Dean Martin
Blues-
Lead Belly , Howlin' Wolf, Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, Jack Dupree, Skip James, Sonny Terry, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Williams, Smokey Hog, Roosevelt Sykes, Ray Charles, Elmore James, Arbee Stidham, Esther Phillips, Brownie McGee, Ike Turner, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Charles Brown, Linda Hayes, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ma Rainey, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Lee Hooker
Classical-
Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Clara Shcumann, Robert Schumann, Beethoven, Chaminade, Debussy, Faure, Granados, Grieg, Brahms, Charlie Chaplin!, Bach and Sons, Haydn, Jacquet De La Guerre, Corelli, Scarrlatti, Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Shostakovich, Ravel, Bartok, Mendelssohn (Fanny too!), Prokofiev, Schubert, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner, Stravinsky, Strauss, Schoenberg (klangfarbenmelodie baby!)
Type of Label: Indie
