What non-classical music do you like?

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My primary taste in music is classical, but I am always up for input regarding contemporary and/or non-classical music. Some contemporary groups/ singers I like are:

The Duhks
Radiohead
Porcupine Tree
Mercedes Sosa
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Carlos Gardel
The Beatles
Dredg

Does anyone have some suggestions/ recommendations of non-classical music they like?

I usually hear electronic music or j-pop. But recently I stumbled upon Ally Kerr's music and I really like that now. The Sore Feet Song is one of the most beautiful songs I have heard in a while.

I listen to just about anything but new country.

These days my mix in the car is 50% jungle (dark jungle, hip-hop jungle, jazz-step, techstep, intelligent d&b), 10% early to mid 90s alternative/industrial (PWEI, Skinny Puppy, Tool, etc.) and then 40% mid 90's gangster rap (Mobb Deep, Cypress Hill, Wu Tang, Method Man, Dilated Peoples). Pretty much the overall theme for my tastes is either dark and dysphoric, cocky and hardhitting, or real deep and mysterious 'make you think' type stuff that gives you mad chills when done right.

I understand you, Namiko.

no rap. ever. No country, except Johnny Cash, Dixie Chicks and Nickel Creek, except Nickel Creek really isn't country, it doesn't fit in any category. Phantom of the Opera soundtrack-Movie Version....Sarah Brightman sings like she has something stuck in her throat when she does Christine in the stage version-Emmy Rossum all the way!! !! ! Bob Dylan, Sixpence None The Richer, Newsboys, Relient K, Bryan Adams, Nellie McKay, Starting Line, June Tabor, Iona, Chris Rice, Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson, George Huff, Fernando Ortega, Rich Mullins, Josh Groban, The Beatles, Five Iron Frenzy, Sherri Youngward, Steve Goodman, Vanessa Carlton, Norah Jones, LOTR soundtracks, Kasey Chambers, Strawbs, Star Wars soundtrack, Anything by Danny Elfman outside Oingo Boingo, The W's, Vince Gill(only 'cos I'm obsessed with Amy Grant), Joan Baez, Bruce Cockburn, Horslips, Black 47, and my musical obsessions, Amy Grant(My biggest obsession) and Great Big Sea(a more minor obsession)
I know there's lots more I like, I just can't think of it right now.

No detailed lists, cos I post em all over the board...

Punk, post-punk/new wave/goth, alternative, *some* indie and metal.

Favourite band/obsession is Joy Division.

Hmm...Classic Rock, Dance, whatever Depeche Mode is, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Hip Hop, Rap, R&B, Southern Rock, Rap-Rock, Ska, Symphonic Metal, Nu Metal, Industrial, Blues, Ballads, 80's, Drum and Bass, Ambience, Alternative, almost any genre.
Current favorite bands are Depeche Mode and Nightwish.

I'll play anything new or old at least once. Mostly classic rock and independant modern

some rap is ok especially the older stuff. ill listen to mostley everything exept country music.