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"Lots of good new music"

Having broadband really is a rather wonderful way of refining your taste in music. Whereas before you'd have to spend £13.99 on an album from Virgin Megastores to discover whether you like a band, this method allows me to sort the wheat from the chaff, as it were. As such, I have discovered some excellent new bands whom you might wish to seek out yourself (and then buy your albums):

Eighties Matchbox Beeline Disaster - Really dumb, dumb and stupid rock, but loveable with it. Big fuzzy basslines, a singer what goes 'RRAAARRRGH' and songs about intercourse with members of YOUR family. It's all quite chaotic really, but a few of their songs are great, notably 'Celebrate Your Mother', 'Chicken' and 'Fishfingers'. Wapow!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah, the NME have been going ape over them for ages now, but their music quite appeals to me. It's fairly hectic and you'll either love it or hate it, and to be honest, they look like New York art students and are probably the most annoying people you'd ever meet, but songs like Graveyard, Date with the Night etc. are definitely worth a listen.

The Thermals - Recommended to me by (again) the NME, only heard a few tracks from them but I like them already. Kind of like The Stooges, but not as good, yet still... quite good.

Sleepy Jackson - If you can, get hold of a song called Glass Houses, it's ace and will be the best thing you'll hear all day.

Other songs rocking the Snuggly-meter at the moment include:

Cave in - Inspire
The Mars Volta - I Cut My Teeth
Radiohead - Myxamatosis
The Rapture - Out of the Race and Onto the Tracks
The Thrills - Santa Cruz
The Zutons - Creepin and a Crawlin
Transplants - Diamonds and Guns

You illegal mongrels runing music.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are vastly over-rated NME ballicks. The saviours of new music etc shut up shut up why were Hot Hot Heat on the front cover. One song I tells you.

Listen to gay Bar by The Electric Six now!!!!1

'Pyschosis Safari' is the best 80's Matchbox song I've heard.

I agree with you completely with The Thrills, saw them live a while back and they're amazing. 'One Horse Town' is their new single and I'd recommend it to anyone.

On the other hand, I absolutely can't stand the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. That song that MTV2 always play annoys the hell out of me.

I really don't like the 80's matchbox blahdedahdeadah...

I didn't like them when I'd heard some of their studio stuff, I still don't like them after I saw them live supporting Placebo.

I'm sure I have Celebrate Your Mother on one of my MiniDiscs... not sure which one though, and I have about 10, each with 4-ish hours of stuff on... :S

Add to that list...

Joy Zipper - Check out my new Jesus

Really lovely.

I'm torn at the moment - I desperately want to hate Radiohead for not writing 13 more songs like Just, but the few new songs I've downloaded I quite like, especially the one I just mentioned.

And everyone must download Celebrate Your Mother, as I'm listening to it now and it rocks, no, scratch that, IT ROCKS.

See that the transplant song

Does the singer have no tongue or teeth?

" Damoooods aaaaaaaaa goooooooonnnnsss "

I agree - that's what I do.

Get 2+2=5 by Radiohead

I got the Transplants album last week. Pretty good stuff it is.

And incidentally, I am the worst possible advert for downloading free music - I've probably doubled the amount of money I spend on albums since I got my lovely broadband connection. The difference being, now I only spend money on good music. Yay for me.