What kind of music is everyone else into?

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Prizes to you for having the most similar taste in music for me. I'm listening to Alter Bridge as it is haha.

I'm quite a wide picture - anything from soft Acoustics (Jose Gonzalez - he did the bouncy ball song for Panasonic (I think it is?) for those of you who remember in the UK), Indie (most stuff really - Fratellis, Kaisers, Feeling etc.), Rock (most of the stuff mentioned above - Within Temptation, Nightwish, Evanescence, Alter, Foos, Seether, among MANY others), and, to an extent, some heavy metal (again, some you mentioned - SOAD, Disturbed, as well as DragonForce etc.). I like a LOT of stuff

Absu, Arcturus, Alice in Chains, Amon Amarth, Anaal Nathrakh, Anti-Flag, Arch Enemy, Asgaut, Asmegin, Aus-Rotten, Bathory, Behemoth, Blind Guardian, Blut Aus Nord, Borknagar, Brujeria, Burzum, Carpathian Forest, Cattle Decapitation, Children of Bodom, Cryptopsy, Darkthrone, Dark Tranquility, Dead Kennedys, Death, Deicide, Dimmu Borgir, Discharge, Disrupt, Drudkh, Einherjer, Elvenking, Emperor, Gogol Bordello, Graveland, Iced Earth, Immortal, Iron Maiden, Kalmah, Kreator, Krisiun, Lamb of God, Limbonic Art, Mastodon, Mayhem, Ministry, Moonsorrow, Morbid Angel, Mystic Forest, Naglfar, Necrophagist, Negura Bunget, Nevermore, Nightwish, Nile, Nargaroth, Nortt, Nokturnal Mortum, Opeth, Origin, Orphaned Land, Possessed, Primal Fear, Primordial, Quo Vadis, Rhapsody, Satyricon, Sepultura, Slayer, Steel Attack, Symphony X, The Black Dahlia Murder, Therion, Tristania, Tvangeste, Venom, The Varukers, Vital Remains, Vlad Tepes, Waylander, Windir, Xasthur

Folk music and Jugbands

Also blues

In America, the only people who buy NME are supernerds like me who take it semi-seriously. Personally, I think they destroyed any possibility of Arctic Monkeys being taken seriously in America. Also it costs about $9 for a copy here in America. $9. I'm not kidding you. I never liked the articles and all the interviews were boring (do you guys have any Chuck Klosterman-types writing about music in the UK? Anyone?). But they usually pick very good singles of the week (that one Pull Tiger Tail song was great) and sometimes some features are somewhat well written. It isn't worth $9 though. I actually haven't bought a paper copy of NME since the 2006 Christmas Issue.

I hate how they hype up bands. Whenever I discover a band online, or through somewhere else or through a better magazine, I turn around and discover that NME has built a wall of hype around them (Biffy Clyro, Hadouken!, The Pipettes, Mumm-ra, Art Brut) and no one else I know will listen to me about how good said band is after that. Thank god they haven't written a thing about Silversun Pickups yet. Or Tokyo Police Club.

It was the NME New Music Tour, back in 2006 some time.

Nine dollars - thats about five/six pounds or something isn't it? Ouch.
I don't know that journalist you referrenced - who do they write for? There are writers I respect in the UK but to be honest I think it's partly to do with knowing a lot of them and respecting them for personal reasons, I don't know if there's anyone I'd recommend. I respect the NME's Alex Miller because we both started off working on the same magazine, I know he's a nice guy, and he makes sure that new bands get put in when they start getting talked about, not a year or so later as was so recently the case. I also really respect Rachel Cawley and John Brainlove who write for Drowned in Sound, but then most of the other writers there are terrible.

I actually don't mind 'the hype', I don't believe in bands have to slog away for years before they get any recognition, if they've produced something good then you have to let people know about it, and if you have to write in an over-excited manner to get your point across then thats OK by me! People do get suspicious when a band turn up that have gotten signed to a major somehow without anyone hearing about them? And they have a big feature in the NME? And they're really unfeasibly boring, but quite pretty? But actually, in the UK I think people would be less likely to write off a band because they'd been featured in the NME, because the NME is percieved as mainly featuring boring mainstream bands you don't care about (STOP PUTTING OASIS ON THE COVER ALREADY??! !) but sometimes getting it so so right... but only because they've been cribbing off all the cooler magazines.

I like anything but country.

So, you want to know about Chuck Klosterman do you?

Klosterman is a writer and columnist whose written four books (In order: an autobiography, an essay collection, an expanded version of a featured article he wrote for "Spin" and a compendium of articles and features he wrote for a few magazines) and has worked for "Esquire" and "Spin". He's America's foremost pop culture essayist and some of his fans (not me though) proclaim him to be the successor to Lester Bangs.

As for Oasis, most Americans stopped caring after "Be He Now" was released and became a total failure. Because of this, American record buyers ignored Pulp (which is a crying shame and something i've never forgiven Oasis for) and Blur (the only song 90% of Americans who consider themselves fans have heard is "Song 2"). Most Americans love "Definitely Maybe" and "Morning Glory" (said two records were huge on alternative radio and "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" were huge pop hits), but virtually no other post-"Be Here Now" albums by the band were noticed in the US (a few songs - "Lyla", "Go Let It Out", "The Importance of Being Idle" and "The Hindu Times" - got rock airplay, but not that much). At least they still have "Acquisce" to fall back on, huh?

Another good music writer in America is Nathan Rabin, who used to review music for All Music Guide and now writes for AV Club.

In America, we're not used to bands having hype built up around them by magazines, and because of that, the several who have - The Mooney Suzuki, Be Your Own Pet and the Scottish group Dogs Die In Hot Cars - have all failed more or less to gain any radio airplay or high record sales. But in America, it's impossible for an "indie rock" artist to come even close to the Top 40 without some sort of substanial push (like "1234" by Feist, which hit the Top 10 with no airplay). Also, unlike the UK charts, airplay figures heavily into the chart - and is the sole factor of composition for charts like the Modern Rock Tracks (alternative), Mainstream Rock Charts (metal/hard rock) and R&B/Hip Hop (guess), there is a single sales charts (last time I looked, topped by "Foundations" by Kate Nash), but it doesn't figure in much to the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK however, an artist can come out of nowhere - take Duffy this week for instance - and hit #1 or at least in the Top 40. A band like iForward, Russia! or Hadouken! wouldn't stand a chance against Chris Daughtry or Finger Eleven or one of the several soundalike rappers. I mean Robbie Williams isn't famous AT ALL in America (yes, "Angel" and "Millenium" got some minor pop airplay, but not very much). Take That was - "Back to Good" was a huge, million-selling Top 10 smash - but they're a one-hit wonder here. In fact, the only alternative rock bands to have no problem hitting the Top 40 are Foo Fighters, Green Day and U2. Heck, Radiohead's only had one Top 40 single, but are one of the biggest rock bands in America. We're a weird country when it comes to music, huh? The public has virtually no say in chart composition.

Amy Wine House
Radio Head
Spacehog
Beatles
Janis Joplin
Blackeyed Peas
Bob Dylan
White Stripes
Deathcab for Cutie
Goo Goo Dolls
Jimi Hendrix
Slim Whitman
Paul Whiteman
Eagles
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Ma Rainey
Billie Holliday
Alicia Keys
Gorillaz
Beck
David Bowie
Queen
The Carter Family
Johnny Cash
Lovin' Spoonfull
Cat Steven
Alanis Morisette
No Doubt
Lauren Hill
John Lennon
Native American flute

In general I like a lot of music. Time periods don't mean a thing to me nor nationality.

Same here.