Need some new alt rock to listen to

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I need more music. Some of my favorite bands are Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, The Beatles, Mogwai, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, System of a Down, and Gorillaz.

Any suggestions?

Here are some of mine (that you haven't listed):
Newer stuff - The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Fleet Foxes, Muse, The Shins, Alanis Morissette, Newton Faulkner
Older stuff - Camel, Gong, King Crimson
Non-Rock - Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Fever Ray/The Knife

Newer Stuff - 5ive, 35007, Stereolab, Boredoms, Boris, Cornelius, Monte Cazazza, Copshootcop, Farflung, Gay Beast, Jucifer, Khanate, Mastodon, Melt Banana, Monkey 3, The Heads, Ufomammut, Wolves In The Throne Room, Wooden Shjips, Zeni Geva

Older Stuff - AshRa Tempel, Can, Centipede, Cromagnon, Faust, Flower Travellin' Band, Guru Guru, Jesus Lizard, Last Exit, Les Rallizes Denudes, Lustmord, Modern Lovers, Taj Mahal Travellers, The Residents, The Velvet Underground,

Cool, thanks for the suggestions.

there's a thread here, and in Random discussion, on what people are listening to. You can try them out...I've made some good finds...;0

Alanis Morrisette is new? gad, she goes back to the 90s...

My recommendations based on the artists you mentioned. All are recent releases (2009-2010).

The xx - xx
Girls - Album
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Eskimo Joe - Inshalla
Muse - The Resistance
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy) - Heartland
Portishead - Third
Vampire Weekend - Contra

^good stuff except the vampire weekend
I'd add:

the zutons
the Kills - Midnight Boom
the album leaf
primal scream - evil heat

s'ok... we're not grading for points here...
Another place to look is lastfm.com. You put in a band name, and they come up with that band, and other bands that (they think) sound like the one you picked. Sometimes they're right, sometimes so far off it's a form of entertainment on it's own...

Last.fm tends to give decent recommendations.

As for new stuff, the Girls disc was quite good, and I am enjoying the new Los Campesinos! record. Looking at your tastes, Girls may be a bit too low key, but you'll never know 'till you try.

Side projects are also another awesome way to find new bands. Modest Mouse's first drummer, Jeremiah Green, for example, played in a band called Red Stars Theory in the '90s. They're very melodic, violin-and-guitar post-rock that I could see you liking. Modest Mouse's second drummer, Benjamin Weikel, is in a band called the Helio Sequence; their stuff is huge guitar lines and bouncy keyboards with some folk-rock thrown in for good measure. You'd like them as well. The list goes on - see what bands other Modest Mouse members have played with.

Helio Sequence in the house! Wow awesome I was going to mention them as well (peep the songs "Hallelujah" and "Harmonica Song" for sure). Aside from that might want to check out:

Lansing-Dreiden
Minus the Bear
Jets to Brazil ("Orange Rhyming Dictionary"--first album only)
The Jane Does

3 doors down, Greenday, Nirvana, Soundgarden

Die! Die! Die! from New Zealand are awesome!

You could also download some tunes from my mp3 blog - http://revengeradio.com

If you can track down any of their albums (three, IIRC), give a listen to a San Diego band called the Rugburns. Their closest brushes with fame have been when Jewel (who used to date their lead singer/songwriter) did female vocals for "My Old Lover's House", and when Weird Al Yankovic did what he calls a "style parody", with the song "Albuquerque" (which is stylistically quite similar to the Rugburns' "Dick's Automotive", in its rambling sequences and final shout of a fairly nonsensical line).

I'm particularly fond of "Suburbia", which references a store that actually exists in El Cajon (although these days, it's Hiram's Guns and Nick's Liquor, rather than Hiram's Guns and Spirits - they still share a store, though). The third verse will only really make sense if you also listen to "War", as it references "War"'s viewpoint character ("My son just got arrested, he's got pot leaves on his door/His favorite band's the Rugburns, and he wants a f***in' war...").

I don't listen to much alternative, besides the 90's grunge scene I hate most of the other stuff.

The ones I like most are:
Alter Bridge
Shinedown
Papa Roach
Stone Sour
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Seether