Your favorite NEW Rock bands

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since 2000?
Elbow
Doves
Interpol
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Riverside
Explosions of the Sky
Anything Jack White touches
My Morning Jacket
Idlewild
Ours
The national
Bjork
The Strokes
Muse
The Decemberists
Regina Spektor
The Kills
The Black Keys
Arcade Fire
Phoenix
Broken Social Scene
Florence and the Machine
LCD Soundsystem
Feist
Nellie McKay
Andrew Bird
Beirut
Astra
Foals
Antlers
Beardfish

Bon Iver and Juston Vernon bands

to name a few
 
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My top twenty bands that started or paked during 2,000 on are! I specifically with the exception of one bias limited it to bands that had multiple releases:

Anberlin
Blue October
South FM
Jimmy Eat World
Brand New
The Used
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Switchfoot
The Spill Canvas
Straylight Run
Taking Back Sunday
Sigur Ros
The Civil Wars
Say Anything
Breaking Benjamin
One Less Reason
AFI
M83
Relient K
The All-American Rejects

Notable Mentions: , Blindside, Evans Blue, Shinedown, Dead Sara, The Decemberist, In This Moment, While Heaven Wept, Coheed and Cambria, Menomena.....

20 Solo Artist/One Man Projects:

Ben Folds
Damien Rice
City and Colour
David Ford
Dashboard Confessional
Ours
Ryan Adams
Frank Turner
Kanye West
Lissie
Rachael Yamagata
Bat For Lashes
Hurt
Vanessa Carlton
Glen Hansard
Regina Spektor
Nellie McKay
Charles Bradley
Eminem
Beth Hart

My 10 Favorite New Acts in the Past 2 Years:
Phosphorescent
Meg Myers
Mallory Knox
Dead Sara
Dry The River
Frightened Rabbit
Ed Sheeran
First Aid Kit
Lianne La Havas
Hopsin
 

Sox

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There are some brilliant bands from recent years kicking about that have really caught my attention, a few off the top of my head ...

Gentlemans Pistols
Graveyard
Electric Mary
Black Spiders
Rival Sons
Alter Bridge
Black Stone Cherry

In fact there's a boat load of newer bands making good music.
 

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The Red Button
Black Angels
Orchid
Tame Impala
Earthless
Graveyard
Rival Sons
The Sheepdogs
Ghost
Mount Carmel
Howlin Rain
Witchcraft
Astra
The Sword
Mastodon
 

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I'm not very quick at discovering new bands. I tend to hold on to older classic bands that I really like. That said, here are the bands that I've enjoyed most since 2000:

Keane: I have all their albums till date and really enjoy their piano pop sound. Love Tom's vocals as well. I think he has one of the best voices I've heard in recent years.

Porcupine Tree: Yes I know that they started way earlier but I got into them in the 2000s. Favourite albums are Fear of a Blank Planet and Deadwing.

Radiohead: They also started earlier in the 90s and my favourite is probably either Ok Computer or The Bends. But I also quite enjoyed their output in the 2000s up until and excluding the weird King of Limbs.

Muse: Enjoyable band combining elements of Queen and Radiohead. Lately I've lost track of them though. Haven't really listened to 2nd Law. But I love what I've heard from Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes... and The Resistance.

Tame Impala: This is the newest band that I've gotten into... during 2013. Heard Innerspeaker first and didn't like it all that much initially. But after a few listens, I was so addicted to this album that I simply had to get Lonerism as well. Then I went and listened to their 2008 EP as well. Brilliant band though they remind me of the Beatles sometimes, so not very original. But theirs is the next album that I'm most excited about, not counting personal sentimental favourite U2 of course. :D

Honourable mentions: The Killers (Hot Fuss was brilliant and one of my favourite albums of the 2000s), Snow Patrol (Final Straw and Eyes Open were both decent).
 

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