Explosions in the Sky (by-the-numbers post-rock)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (post-rock, these guys along with Explosions are what get most people into the genre)
Bathyscaphe (heavier post-rock with awesome guitars)
Bohren und der Club of Gore (heavy jazz)
Crippled Black Phoenix (post-rock supergroup including members from I forget what all)
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (jazz)
Earthless (long psychedelic Krauty jams)
Eluvium (ambient/piano)
Nico Muhly (neoclassical)
God Is an Astronaut (instrumental pop)
Hiromi Uehara (jazz, one of the best pianists)
Lights out Asia (amazing, syrupy post-rock)
Lis Er Stille (musical interpretations of the paintings of one of the members)
Natsumen (post-rock + jazz)
Ratatat (electronica)
Shibusashirazu Orchestra (free jazz)
Sigur Rós (okay, they have vocals in Icelandic along with a made-up language called Hopelandic, but the voice is treated as an instrument, post-rockish stuff)

blah blah blah, etc.

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Some of my favorites...
-Weird Al Yankovich
-Disturbed
-Jay Z
-Linkin Park
-Royksopp (if only for Remind Me)
-Lynard Skynard
-Pillar

and one of my most favorite bands...

I saw Lacuna Coil, Avenged Sevenfold, Dragonforce, System of a Down... all at Ozzfest last summer. It was pretty awesome.

Oh man, Bon Jovi. One of my secret loves.

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That's the kind of secret that's best as its title implies: secret.

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Thanks so much zuddha - I'll give some of them a, erm, download tonight. Off to the movies for me right now though.

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