This is basically a list of my favorite modern (formed in the 21st Century for the most part or became prominent within the past few years) bands and some of their songs.

1)  Black Lips- Top Songs: Bad Kids, Sea of Blasphemy, Dirty Hands, Fairy Stories, I’ll Be With You, and many more

2) King Khan and the Shrines- Land of the Freak, Took My Lady to Dinner, I Wanna Be a Girl, No Regrets, Welfare Bread, and others

3) Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes, Peacebone, Banshee Beat, Purple Bottle, Who Could Win a Rabbit

4) No Age- Everybody’s Down, Eraser, Teen Creeps, Brain Burner, Neck Escaper

5) Jay Reatard- See/ Saw, An Ugly Death, No Time, I’m Watching You, Screaming Hand

6) Arcade Fire- Rebellion (Lies), My Body Is a Cage, Neon Bible, No Cars Go, Ocean of Noise

7) The Nightwatchman- Battle Hymns, Dark Clouds Above, California’s Dark, Union Song, One Man Revolution

8) Arctic Monkeys- Riot Van, I Bet That You Look Good On the Dance Floor, Fluorescent Adolescent, Fake Tales of San Francisco, Mardy Bum

9) Head Automatica- Beating Heart Baby, The Razor, Dance Party Plus, Please, Please, Please (Young Hollywood), Graduation Day

10) Editors- Distance, Dust In the Sunlight, All Sparks, Munich, The Racing Rats

11) King Khan & BBQ Show

12) meWithoutyou

13) Deerhunter

14) The Fall of Troy

15) Sunset Rubdown

16) Lovely Feathers

17) Daphne Loves Derby

18) Mark “BBQ” Sultan

19) Handsome Furs

20) Flobots

21) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

22) Immortal Technique

23) Trevor Hall

24) Miracle Johan

25) Street Sweeper Social Club

26) Peter Bjorn and John

27) Spinto Band

28) Vampire Weekend

29) Babyshambles

30) Rogue Wave

31) Louis XIV

32) Abe Vigoda

33) Wolftron

34) Wolf Parade

35) High Places

36) Almighty Defenders

37)  Connor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

38) Two Gallants

39) One Day As a Lion

40) Bon Iver

41) Walkmen

42) Kings of Leon

43) Ok Go

44) Tapes n’ Tapes

45) Panda Bear

46) Witchies

47) Cinnamon Band

48) Mean Creek

49) Brand New

50) Lemonade

Of course this is nowhere near a complete list, but these are at least some (lol) of the bands you should check out. And a shout out to my fellow Wakefield natives- Silhouette Rising, The Scoulflaws, and Calling Aviv!

Chris DeCarlo