a list of bands that i have heard about and want to find out more about. this usually means blindly buying their albums when i see them in the stores or (more likely these days) renting the albums from the library.

• Micachu and the Shapes, featuring Mica Levi
• the enemy
• oui by sappho
• ordinary boys
• the hold steady
• the magic numbers
• the cribs
• black lips
• forward russia
• tokyo police club
• the coral
• the charlatans
• radiohead
• yeah yeah yeahs
• sex pistols
• the gun club
• the buzzcocks
• kate nash
• regina spektor
• the hives (know them, just not enough)
• the verve (know them, just not enough)
• television
• the ghost frequency
• arcade fire
• lcd soundsystem
• santogold
• stone roses
• future of the left
• the polyphonic spree
• devendra banhart
• those dancing days
• yeasayer
• iliketrains
• annuals
• new young pony club
• the jealous girlfriends
• mobius band
• matthew dear
• mgmt (know them, just not enough)
• black kids (know them, just not enough)
• crystal castles (know them, just not enough)
• foreign islands (know them, just not enough)
• metronomy (know them, just not enough)
• white williams (know them, just not enough)
• etc, etc, etc