Sat 16 Aug – Loop Festival 2008
Although I've lived in Brighton for a few years now, this is the first year I have attended the Loop festival, which focuses on electronic music with the tag-line 'A festival of digital culture'. I now regret not attending earlier, as this is an excellent festival which had a fascinating and varied line up for 2008. Its also a one-day festival, eliminating the hassle of camping and reducing the nightmare of festival toilets! The two main tent-based stages (the Hub and the Futures stage) were in Victoria Gardens, a small park sandwiched between two main roads on the Steine in the centre of Brighton, with an outpost consisting of the two smaller stages in the University of Brighton Salis Beney building, the Limits being indoors and showing some excellent short films as well as bands, and the Outer Limits (as the name suggests) outside in the courtyard, focussing on more acoustic acts. The two venues are separated by a road, and my only problem with the split venue was the frustrating fact that alcohol couldn't be carried between the different stages! As with all festivals, the schedule unfortunately sometimes presented me with a dilemma as two or more bands who I wanted to see were on at the same time, but I managed to catch a good number of them- I haven't reviewed everything I saw here. Also fortunately, the very dodgy weather forecast was spectacularly wrong with sun or clear skies all day.
Liverpool's Wave Machines where the first act of the day on the main Hub stage. As always for the first band on a festival bill, the crowd were thin on the ground, but those who were there undoubtedly enjoyed the music, described by the guide as 'a kind of arty, lo-fi psychedelic pop'. Whatever genre it is in it was hard for me to find comparable bands, though the music is undoubtedly based in indie guitar music, a first sign of the eclecticism of a festival described as focusing on electronic music. Wave machines are easily distinguishable by the masks of their own faces that they wear on stage, but the music is far from threatening, with helium-fueled vocals and sonic invention making for a very enjoyable sound which will definitely appeal to fans of bands such as Super
Furry Animals. This is definitely a band I will look out for in future.
Wave Machines were followed by a trip to the Limits to hear A Scandal in Bohemia, who have previously appeared alongside better-known post-rock groups such as A Silver Mt. Zion. The five-piece band are young and formidably talented with obviously extensive classical training, each member able to switch instruments at will - the band used at various times trumpet, guitar, keyboard and flute alongside various more obscure instruments, with vocals provided by three different band members and superb drumming. The music itself has very strong contemporary classical elements alongside strong post-rock dynamics with a thrilling progression through many of the songs from delicate melodies to climactic walls of noise, and the overall effect is very powerful and an extremely impressive live spectacle.
The next stop was Seb Rochford and the theremin expert Pamelia Kurstin. The distinctively big-haired Seb Rochford is a very talented drummer who I have seen perform before -he has played with a large number of bands in the Brighton area and further afield, and is instantly recognisable! Pamelia's command of the theremin is hugely impressive and my exposure to that instrument previously is pretty much limited to the Doctor Who theme tune. Parts were played live, then skilfully tweaked and looped in real time to build up multi-layered soundscapes. However I am unfortunately still not a convert, the overall atmosphere created was darkly atmospheric and suspenseful, but too reminiscent of horror movies for both me and my girlfriend and we left to look for other sounds.
Sticking to the University of Brighton outpost, London group Sunharbour were next up on the Outer Limits stage. Their music is warm and mellow, with a classic 90s sound reminiscent of down tempo electronica acts like Zero 7 and Groove Armada. There were two female vocalists and one male vocalist sharing the small stage with 9 other band members including a 3-part string section- so many members that the lead singer struggled to remember the names of everyone at the end... To me this huge band did feel like too much, the acoustics were probably not ideal for the band but the strings in particular were almost inaudible and my personal feeling was that their sound could probably benefit from paring down to the key elements. Nevertheless, the music was undeniably pleasant and skilfully performed, even if I will be sticking to the better-known acts mentioned above.
Gilbert were a more interesting proposition, with a warm and melodic
electronica sound that definitely doesn't take itself too seriously. Like many of my favourite electronica/ IDM acts, with whom they definitely have common ground, Gilbert understand the virtue of simplicity when matched with well-chosen sounds and a strong melody (its the way I try to produce music as well- http://www.northcapemusic.co.uk ;-)). However, unlike myself, they are also a very entertaining live band, with an appealingly happy Japanese singer, bass player, drums and Gilbert himself (with a classical background and an alternative day job of film and theatre soundtrack work) on keyboards, violin and vocal monologues, delivered wearing a Stetson and in an American accent. The sound is above all upbeat as well as thoughtful and well-composed, delivered with flashes of humour.
Following Gilbert it was time to move back across to the main site, to see The Bays on the Hub stage. The Bays have been playing since 1999, but ONLY EVER play live, they never either record or rehearse music. The music is totally dance- based, with live drums and bass, keyboards, and samples and production carried out live... The set spanned trance, techno and drum and bass, and was consistently excellent and unsurprisingly, given the bands 'live-only' philosophy, very responsive to the atmosphere in the tent which was by now full of enthusiastic festival goers. A superb, energetic and seamless performance, and definitely one of my favourites of the festival.
Caribou was one of the handful of acts who drew me to the Loop festival in the first place. Caribou is Canadian artist Dan Snaith, who I have recently discovered through the superb chilled IDM of his debut album, but his style has mutated considerably since then- Caribou's last album is much more guitar-based with reference points in 60s psychedelia. Unfortunately, through no fault of the 4-piece band, the performance was a disappointment, mainly due to the terrible sound quality in the tent during the set. Treble and detail were lost in loud bass-frequency mush... What I could hear of the music sounded worth further investigation, but I had to give my ears a rest.
Fortunately, the sound production team was switched before headliner Four Tet took the stage. Four Tet made his breakthrough with 2001's Pause which is an album of beautifully clear and poised ambient IDM with a very organic, acoustic sound. Like Caribou his style has evolved, and the last album by Londoner Kieren Hebden, Everything Ecstatic, has a darker, more intense, minimal techno sound. The sound translates extremely well to a live set, which was brilliant and worthy of a festival headliner. The details in production which you'd expect from this artist were all there, together with, fortunately, excellent sound quality for a live performance. Strong, intense and driving yet evolving minimal techno- cool stuff!

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense.

1) Will it be ok? So She's Leaving // The Trews

2) How are you feeling today? Untouchable // Garbage

3) How do your friends see you? Brown Eyed Handsome Man // Chuck Berry

4) Will you get married? I Only Want You // Eagles of Death Metal

5) What is the story of your life? Body Language // Queen

6) What was high school like? In The Jungle // The Vines

7) How can you get ahead in life? Silent Shout // The Knife

8) What is the best thing about your friends? September's Lost // The Scruffs

9) What is tonight going to be like? Live-In Skin // Foo Fighters

10) What is in store for the remainder of this weekend? Paralyzed // Rock Kills Kid

11) What song describes you? Brown Sugar // The Rolling Stones

12) To describe your grandparents? Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn // Hellogoodbye

13) How is your life going? Some Girls // Rachel Stevens

14) What song will they play at your funeral? An Insult to the Dead // Say Anything (O_O;)

15) How does the world see you? Paper Tiger // Beck

16) Will you have a happy life? Ready to Die // The Unicorns

17) What do your friends really think of you? Destiny (Photek Remix) // Zero 7

18) How can I make myself happy? Magic Man // Heart

19) What should you do with your life? Sealings // Yeah Yeah Yeahs

20) Will you ever have children? No Surprises // Radiohead

one of the dopest re-workings of a song since Dobie did to Björk's I Miss You, DJ Danger Mouse's reconstruction of Zero 7's Somersault.

He turns the track totally on its ear, turning it from 3/4 time to 4/4, with a phat loping hip hop beat with MF DOOM rapping a whacked out story about a steamy love affair between this cat and a gymnast...theres even a Mary Lou Retton namecheck.

hilarious, funky, sublime

Wich song would you choose to fit in each of these moments?
And try to avoid using the same artist!

I would choose to/for...

...drive a car: The Prodigy - Diesel Power
...drive a bicycle: War from a Harlots Mouth - Heey Lets Start A Band!
...walk: Stam1na - Vapaa Maa
...wake up: Morcheeba - Lighten Up
...fall a sleep:Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line
...fall in love: Jamiroquai - You Give Me Something
...break up: Mokoma - Kuu Saa Valtansa Auringolta
...kill a man: Chimaira - The Flame
...kill yourself: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather A Lovely Thing
...get drunk: Pantera - Walk
...have a hangover: Down - Stone The Crow
...go to a fist fight: Nicole - 8442
...go to war: Ensiferum - Victory Song
...make peace: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watch Tower
...mosh: Lamb of God - Now You've Got Something To Die For
...slice a man apart and throw him in a dumbster: Strapping Young Lad - Imperial
...sing in shower:CMX - Kultanaamio
...sing out loud: Juha "Watt" Vainio - Tulta Päin!
... winter: Sentenced - Dead Moon Rising
...spring: Devin Townsend- Stagnant
...summer: DJ Sven & MC Miker G- Holiday Rap !!!!!!
...autumn: Opeth -Hours Of Wealth
...be played when you was born: Amorphis - Better Unborn :DD
...be played in your funeral: J. Karjalainen -Keihäänkärki

Hello,


This is the follow up journal to my May call-out to fill in a survey about Last.fm aimed to support a research I was conducting.
First of all I would like to thank everyone again for your massive support in filling out the survey!
The goal of this study was to find out whether Last.fm indeed has its influence on people's musical tastes. By splitting the survey into two main parts (intensity of use and influence on musical taste) and then determining whether a correlation exists between these two variables, I hoped to be able to answer that question.

As promised, here are some of the results.


1. The Sample
Considering the skewedness of my selection procedures, a sample of about one thousand respondents with varied socio-demographic profiles was the target. This figure has been widely reached, since none less than 1,574 people participated to the research by filling in the survey. Among them, 1,423 people made it to the end and filled in all essential questions. This totals a percentage of over 90%, which is quite high.
Now, what does the sample look like?

1.1 Year of Birth
The average responder was born in April 1986, which means he or she was about 22 years of age at the time of the research. The median year of birth is 1988 and the mode (the most frequent answer) is 1989. The oldest responder was born in 1947, while the youngest had his or hers first encounter with this world in the year 1996.
Here's a graphical representation:




1.2 Sex
Among the 1,423 selected responders, 1,032 (72.5%) are male and 391 (27.5%) are female, as pictured below.




1.3 Nationality
The sample contains a total of 73 different nationalities, among which the American (15.3%) and Belgian (14.5%) are best represented. Next up are the UK (10.3%), Germany (8.6%), Poland (6.1%), the Netherlands (4.4%), Australia (4.1%), Finland (4.0%), Canada (3.2%) and Sweden (2.9%).
The unproportionally large number of Belgian responders is a clear indicator of some skewedness in my research. The fact that I am Belgian myself, clearly had its influence.


2. Results
Let's have a look at the final results of the study. Firstly, does Last.fm have an influence on people's musical preferences?

2.1 The Answer
First up is determining the homogeneity of the survey's questions and disregarding those that appareantly ask about another variable. The final obtained Cronbach's alpha value (an indicator of homogeneity from 0 to 1) is 0.858 for the questions about the intensity of Last.fm use and 0.888 for those asking about the influence on musical tastes.
Those are more than reasonable results, so let's have a look at the real answer to the question whether Last.fm has an influence on people's tastes: the correlation between both variables.
From my analysis, it appears that there is indeed a moderate correlation between the intensity of Last.fm use and the change in musical taste. (rs = 0.369, p < 0.001). A value for p lower than 0.001 means that the chance the obtained correlation is based on coincidence is lower than 0.1%. In other words: the correlation is significant.
This result gently confirms the hypothesis that Last.fm has an influence on people's musical tastes. A correlation coefficient of 0.369 indicates that Last.fm is surely not the only influence, but that it certainly plays its role.

2.2 Other Results
That concludes the results of my main question. There are other interesting things to be deducted from your answers to the survey, though. Let's have a look at them.

2.2.1 Last.fm's Most Popular Features
A large majority of responders visits his or her own profile page more than once a day (76.3%). The group of responders that can miss their profile pages for longer than one week is even close to being an endangered species (6.3%).
Other people's profile pages have a little less success, but are nevertheless still pretty popular. 86.5% of all responders visit another user's profile page at least once a week; 56.6% do so daily.
Similar results are found concerning artist pages. These are visited at least once a week by 87.4% of Last.fm users; 57.6% do so daily.
The base activity of Last.fm, scrobbling (and therefore listening to) music is also very popular. 89% of users say they scrobble music daily. Only 5.5% does so less than once a week.

2.2.2 Discovering new Artists
No less than 95.8% of responders acknowledged having learnt about new artists through the use of Last.fm, whether they like them or not. A pretty spectacular result, if you ask me. But that's not all.
If we add the question whether they also like those new artists, the percentage drops, but only very slightly: to 93.4%.
It does take a minor plunge, down to 70.9%, when the question whether those artists have become one of the responder's favourites is added. But the fact remains: these are pretty impressive figures.

2.2.2 Discovering new Styles of Music
As can be expected, the percentages drop when discussing the discovery of new styles of music as opposed to discovering new artists.
Nonetheless, a large majority responds positively to the question whether they learnt about new styles of music through the use of Last.fm, liking them or not: 66.3%.
Adding the criterium of liking those new styles, the percentage drops to 58.3%.
A little less than half of all responders (43.5%) agrees to the question whether they learnt about new styles of music that became one of their favourites through Last.fm.respondent daarbij ook nog eens graag hoort, zakt dit percentage tot 58,3%.

2.2.3 Percepted Influence of Last.fm
The last question of this series simply inquired whether the responder feels like Last.fm has influenced his or her taste in music. More than two thirds answered positively to this question (67.1%).

2.2.4 Answers to the Open Question
The final question of the survey was an open one ("If you have any further comments, please type them here. (optional)"). Besides the many greets, compliments and critiques, some interesting points of view about Last.fm were displayed. Those shouldn't go to waste, so I will publish an ordened selection of answers here.


(a) Positive

Last.fm has in a way changed my life, and by doing so, many others as well. Not only do I listen to the music I discover, I also share it with my friends, greatly influencing the music taste of those around me as well.

I want to say that music is very important for me (and i think for everyone), as important as oxygen! And Last.fm is one o the bests ways to seek music. Although i'm quite new in Last.fm, i already made certain that it's very useful in point of music. It's like an encyclopedia of bands and musicians too! I'm glad to be a part of such a website.

lastfm is one of the greatest "e-things" i stumbled upon in last 3 years. an amazing project with a supermassive potential to make great changes in the (almost rotten) music industry - in the way of indirectly but precisely recommending and pushing music to the listeners [...].

Last.fm changed the way I'm listening to music. It's the best web-app ever. Everyone who listens to music should make a profile so he or she can hear a whole new world that opens in their ears.

I've spent an unhealthy amount of time on Last.FM because it's the only community on the whole internet that i really, really like. Gives you more information than you could ever dream about.

While it may not be perfect, last.fm is a decent way of broadening your musical horizons. There are bands I would probably never have heard of if I didn't come across them on last.fm. You can count me as a satisfied customer :)


(b) Negative

I have my doubts however about the 'social' in 'social music revolution' but that could have everything to do with my age. I didn't grow up with computers, mailing and chatting... so the social thing to me comes across as rather superficial. Again, I could be mistaken.

I think that Last.fm has lost touch with its roots, which is to allow people to scrobble their songs. It is trying to be a media player and player in media now, and that stinks.

last.fm support is absolutely horrendous. The worst I've ever experienced. And that's not just hyperbole. Their reluctance to pay attention to the emails is beyond belief.


(c) Interesting

Unfortunately last.fm has created a panopticon effect on my music listening habits. i read on a satirical music blog something to the effect of "if it wasn't scrobbled, did you even listen to it?" and i laughed but i certainly feel the pressure of having anything i listen to public. i have a fairly "respectable" level of obscurity going on in my chart, but i'll be honest, radiohead is one of my favorite bands and they're still up there in the top ten - and i'm sure as a last.fm researcher you understand the issues involved with that! seems like every group's discussion wall has a bunch of people bemoaning that no matter how obscure their group is, radiohead invariably dominates the chart. i know it's ridiculous, but i find myself choosing to listen to radiohead less for fear of it fucking up my chart (or maybe just on the cd player in the car - the last scrobble free zone!). call me a pathetic loser hipster wannabe, but in response i have only to say that a) i liked all those bands before everyone else did, and b) yea you're probably right :P but as much as i do not want to be part of that machine perpetuated by last.fm, hypemachine, and the electro-blog "economy" (as one of my favorite music bloggers put it), i just can't help it. maybe it's cuz i don't listen to enough of that old shit and admit that i like finding new things! if it makes me a lamezor, so be it!

I heard about last.fm on 4chan's /mu/ board ages ago. I never really used it, thinking it was some pretentious hipster site. Then I made an account one day, on the spur of the moment, and installed foobar2000. Then I really started listening. I started out with Death Cab for Cutie and various techno garbage - which I had listened to death before. I listened to them even more once I had an account. Then I found the band Mogwai. I cannot describe how amazing they were. They introduced me to a completely new genre of music: post-rock. instrumentals. minimal vocals. slow-motion rock. whatever you call it, it is completely amazing. Then I was introduced to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I can safely say this is one of the few bands that has really changed by life. Everything about it. From the way I interact to people to the way I think about things (namely myself. I don't care.) Then I got into the Godspeed You! Black Emperor side projects - too numerous to list here. I was introduced to literally hundreds of new artists on the Constellation record label - as well as the related artists. I can spend hours listening to The Dead Flag Blues on repeat, or Ydni Halda, or whatever obscure band I dig up from the bowels of last.fm. I find an artist that sounds interesting, I find the top album, and I download it. Then I go clean my wooden leg. Afterwards, I listen to that album - put it on my music player to listening to at school while I shun my friends and walk aimlessly around the halls, staring down people until they nervously glance away, ensuring that no one will be able to disturb me listening to my music, the new chords and melodies and vocals that aren't vocals but instruments, but not really instruments either except there are no vocals it's all just banjos and clarinets and harps and guitars and saxophones and bassoons and keyboards and drum machines and drum sets and another guitar a bass guitar and ambient noises (swings, [Fly Pan Am], glitches, random beepings, but somehow blending together into a melody so beautiful I can feel it, in my soul, though there's no soul, it's just random firings of neurons in my brain, but still, it, music, is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard and last.fm introduced me to a new life.) and violas and sometimes vocals, they fit. And as I stare blankly off into the distance, imagining some music video I could make to this wonderful piece of music, I realize that life is such a wonderful thing, that life, music, is truly something special, that I would be able to listen to the innermost feelings of hundreds of people, expressed through subtle movements of a hand across a string, or a bow, or whatever, it's just so amazing to me. It's all amazing. I don't know where i'm going to this. I love music. I love 65daysofstatic. Math-Rock. Maybeshewill. Post-Rock. All my genre ID3 tags are blank, it is impossible to categorize it. Anyone who disagrees is a bigot. You cannot disagree with that. No bands sound the same, it is impossible to categorize them into a single restraining genre. Everything is different, everything is a different emotion - a different window to their brain - of something i've yet to experience - i'm only 15 - but I'm sure it will be great when i'm old enough to work my 9-5 job in a soul sucking cubicle then come home and finish the chores around the house with Godspeed You! Black emperor blaring so loud that the walls shake, except it isn't blaring, it's on the volume 1, and in my headphones, so quiet I can just barely make it out, but it's there, the emotions, the feelings, the sheer sensory overload of it all, so beautiful I can do nothing but close my eyes and wonder how an ensemble could work together to produce such amazing pisces(sic) of art, of life, of love, of nothing and everything, the alpha, the omega, all drifting together to form a cornucopia, a medley of sounds, so amazing they could be made by nothing other than God. Except there is no God. There is only Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Sophie Trudeau. Moya. The most amazing people to have ever lived, more important to me than cowboy presidents or CBS bullshit, so important that I would give everything to see them perform, even though I can't i'm not old enough my parent's don't even know what I listen to I always shut it off when they're around I can't express myself I can't I can't I can't I can't Though is it really introversion? I think it's just the music. So beautiful.

Music and feelings has a relationship and that's important. So, last.fm is important for the people, because it helps us to feel more feelings. So we can find ourselves better.

last.fm affects my listening habits. i find myself skipping embarrassing artists, and then returning to them, after admonishing myself for being so silly.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door - '"Tis some visiter", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this and nothing more."

ALL YOUR SURVEY ARE BELONG TO US

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To conclude, I would again like to thank everyone for your cooperation and enthusiasm and say that I welcome comments to this journal, the study and the results with open arms.

- Jelle Vancoppenolle




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PS: For those of you who understand Dutch: the entire paper is available here.






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// some artist connections, to get noticed. //
The Beatles - Coldplay - Radiohead - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nine Inch Nails - Muse - Nirvana - Metallica - Linkin Park - Death Cab for Cutie - The Killers - Foo Fighters - Pink Floyd - Led Zeppelin - System of a Down - Green Day - Madonna - Daft Punk - Arctic Monkeys - Queen - Nessie & Her Beard - The Strokes - Franz Ferdinand - Britney Spears - The Doors - The Rolling Stones - Jimi Hendrix - The Kinks - The Beach Boys - Bob Dylan - The Velvet Underground - Deep Purple - The Who - David Bowie - ABBA - Eagles - The Cure - Depeche Mode - The Smiths - New Order - Duran Duran - Guns N' Roses - Joy Division - a-ha - The Smashing Pumpkins - Pearl Jam - Alice in Chains - Soundgarden - Oasis - The Cranberries - Jack Johnson - Damien Rice - Elliott Smith - Iron & Wine - José González - Nick Drake - Wilco - Ryan Adams - Neko Case - Johnny Cash - Calexico - My Morning Jacket - Uncle Tupelo - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Whiskeytown - 16 Horsepower - Neil Young - Placebo - Beck - Björk - Gorillaz - Pixies - Deftones - KoЯn - Serj Tankian - Tool - Stone Sour - Slipknot - Faith No More - Rage Against the Machine - Mudvayne - A Perfect Circle - Incubus - Sigur Rós - Boards of Canada - Aphex Twin - Air - Brian Eno - Moby - Dead Can Dance - Ulver - Enigma - Röyksopp - Interpol - 菅野よう子 - 梶浦由記 - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION - Mr. Bungle - Frank Zappa - Fantômas - John Zorn - Arcturus - The Residents - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Naked City - Panic! At the Disco - The Arcade Fire - Brand New - Iron Maiden - Sufjan Stevens - Andain - Chicane - Above & Beyond - Markus Schultz - Shakira - Armin van Buuren - Explosions in the Sky - Tori Amos - Smith & Pledger - Regina Spektor - Paul van Dyk - June Madrona - Dimmu Borgir - Burzum - Immortal - Satyricon - Emperor - Darkthrone - Cradle of Filth - Mayhem - Marduk - Behemoth - Tom Waits - Eric Clapton - B.B. King - John Lee Hooker - Muddy Waters - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Ray Charles - Janis Joplin - Blur - Keane - Broken Social Scene - Feist - Metric - Stars - Tegan and Sara - Avril Lavigne - The New Pornographers - Alanis Morissette - Wolf Parade - Enya - Loreena McKennitt - Clannad - Blackmore's Night - Flogging Molly - Era - The Corrs - Secret Garden - The Pogues - The Dubliners - Massive Attack - Zero 7 - Thievery Corporation - Portishead - Morcheeba - Bonobo - Underoath - Relient K - Switchfoot - P.O.D. - Norma Jean - As I Lay Dying - Jars of Clay - Bing Crosby - Frank Sinatra - Band Aid - Nat King Cole - AC/DC - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ludwig van Beethoven - Johann Sebastian Bach - Frédéric Chopin - Antonio Vivaldi - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Franz Schubert - Johannes Brahms - Claude Debussy - Tenacious D - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Dane Cook - Monty Python - Bloodhound Gang - Richard Cheese - Dixie Chicks - Willie Nelson - Shania Twain - Dolly Parton - Hank Williams - Nouvelle Vague - The Prodigy - The Chemical Brothers - Fatboy Slim - Basement Jaxx - Kylie Minogue - Faithless - Jamiroquai - LCD Soundsystem - Bee Gees - Róisín Murphy - Boney M. - Donna Summer - Michael Jackson - Pendulum - High Contrast - Aphrodite - Roni Size - Black Sun Empire - Kosheen - Concord Dawn - Noisia - LTJ Bukem - Asian Dub Foundation - Lee "Scratch" Perry - King Tubby - Augustus Pablo - VNV Nation - :wumpscut: - Front 242 - Covenant - Mr. Alfa - Michael Bublé - The Postal Service - Goldfrapp - Kraftwerk - Ladytron - The Knife - My Chemical Romance - Fall Out Boy - Taking Back Sunday - The Used - The Mars Volta - Sonic Youth - Animal Collective - The Decemberists - The Shins - Bright Eyes - Evanescence - PJ Harvey - Norah Jones - Garbage - Fiona Apple - Cat Power - Amy Winehouse - Nightwish - Simon & Garfunkel - Devendra Banhart - Joanna Newsom - Leonard Cohen - Yann Tiersen - Édith Piaf - Justice - Emilie Simon - Carla Bruni - Camille - Charlotte Gainsbourg - Françoise Hardy - Alizée - Keren Ann - James Brown - Prince - Stevie Wonder - Rammstein - Wir sind Helden - Within Temptation - Lacrimosa - Napalm Death - Nasum - Pig Destroyer - Carcass - Santana - Dire Straits - Hatebreed - Converge - Comeback Kid - Beastie Boys - Kanye West - Eminem - OutKast - The Roots - Black Eyed Peas - DJ Shadow - A Tribe Called Quest - Jay-Z - Nas - Wu-Tang Clan - Common - 2Pac - Cypress Hill - Snoop Dogg - Jurassic 5 - Mos Def - David Guetta - Deep Dish - Bob Sinclar - Mylo - Autechre - Squarepusher - Venetian Snares - Amon Tobin - Plaid - Bloc Party - Modest Mouse - Marilyn Manson - Skinny Puppy - Apocalyptica - Pelican - 65daysofstatic - Dir en grey - Miles Davis - Louis Armstrong - Nina Simone - Herbie Hancock - Ella Fitzgerald - Billie Holiday - Manu Chao - Buena Vista Social Club - Juanes - Jennifer Lopez - Gipsy Kings - Enrique Eglesias - Ibrahim Ferrer - Orishas - Myod - Justin Timberlake - Robbie Williams - The Moody Blues - Ricardo Villalobos - Booka Shade - Richie Hawtin - Vangelis - Merzbow - Melt-Banana - Lightning Bolt - Einstürzende Neubauten - Elvis Presley - Chuck Berry - John Lennon - Roy Orbison - The Animals - Nelly Furtado - Gwen Stefani - Christina Aguilera - Kelly Clarkson - U2 - Dido - Maroon 5 - James Blunt - The Cardigans - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Bauhaus - Echo & the Bunnymen - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - A Silver Mt. Zion - Mono - Do Make Say Think - Porcupine Tree - King Crimson - Shpongle - Syd Barrett - The Clash - Sex Pistols - Matisyahu - Bob Marley - Gentleman - Sublime - Peter Tosh - My Bloody Valentine - Slowdive - Jeff Buckley - Tim Buckley - Rufus Wainwright - Reel Big Fish - Less Than Jake - Ska-P - The Specials - Madness - Marvin Gaye - Alicia Keys - Joss Stone - Hans Zimmer - Howard Shore - John Williams - Ennio Morricone - Kent - In Flames - Scooter - Orbital - DJ Tiësto - Benny Benassi - Paul Oakenfold - Cesária Évora - Ravi Shankar

A - Arctic Monkeys (lastyear=ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION)
B - Breaking Benjamin (lastyear=Beck)
C - Chevelle (lastyear=Crosby, Stills & Nash)
D - Disturbed (lastyear=Death Cab for Cutie)
E - Evanescence (unchanged)
F - The Faint (lastyear=Foo Fighters)
G - Goldfrapp (unchanged)
H - Imogen Heap (unchanged)
I - Interpol (lastyear=Incubus)
J - Justice (lastyear=Jet)
K - KoЯn (lastyear=Yoko Kanno)
L - Lostprophets (lastyear=Linkin Park)
M - Muse (unchanged)
N - Neurosonic (lastyear=No Doubt)
O - The Offspring (unchanged)
P - Puddle of Mudd (lastyear=Panic! At the Disco)
Q - Queens of the Stone Age (lastyear=Queen)
R - Radiohead (unchanged)
S - She Wants Revenge (lastyear=The Shins)
T - Three Days Grace (lastyear=Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
U - The Used (lastyear=U2)
V - Velvet Revolver
W - We Are Scientists (lastyear=The White Stripes)
X - ???? (unchanged)
Y - Yo La Tengo (lastyear=Yes)
Z - Zero 7

STILL don't listen to anyone starting with X...
kind of ashamed to see Disturbed replace Death Cab ^^;

Here is Part 2 of 3 of an OC Special Podcast, all about Season 2.

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Tracklisting:
dios Malos - You Got Me All Wrong (S2: The Distance)
Halloween, Alaska - All the Arms Around You (S2: The Distance)
Zero 7 – Passing By (S2: The Distance)
Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone With You (S2: The Way We Were)
U2 – Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own (S2: The New Era)
Imogen Heap – Goodnight & Go (S2: The SnOC)
Modest Mouse – The World At Large (S2: Family Ties)
Peter Gallagher – Don’t Give Up on Me (S2: The Power of Love)
Bell X1 – Eve, the Apple of My Eye (S2: The Lonely Hearts Club)
Blind Melon – No Rain (S2: The Rainy Day Women)
Matt Pond PA – Champagne Supernova (S2: The Rainy Day Women)
Joseph Arthur – A Smile That Explodes (S2: The Blaze of Glory)
José González – Crosses (S2: The Dearly Beloved)
The Perishers – Nothing Like You & I (S2: The O Sea)
Coldplay – Fix You (S2: The O Sea)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Friends (S2: The Dearly Beloved)
Imogen Heap – Hide & Seek (S2: The Dearly Beloved)