Can anyone help me out? I need some music recommendations (Cont'd)...?

I think you'd probably like some of these:

God is An Astronaut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUW4IidID4

Mogwai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tuGrEynG68

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwz7lUaJDU0

This Will Destroy You

http://www.myspace.com/thiswilldestroyyou

I love Sigur Rós!!! So few people know about them sadly!

Anyway here are some of my favorites:

Aqualung

Alexi Murdoch

Ben Lee

Nick Drake

Peter Bjorn & John

Iron & Wine

Death Cab for Cutie

The Postal Service

Joseph Arthur

Sufjan Stevens

Paolo Nutini

Voxtrot

Brendan Benson

Youth Group

Rogue Wave

Travis

Wilco

Guster

Landon Pigg

Cary Brothers

Ben Folds Five

Jeff Buckley

Jake Owen Adam Gregory Lee Brice Jamey Johnson Keith Anderson Eric Church Reba McEntire Jason Michael Carroll Miranda Lambert Heidi Newfield Cole Deggs and The Lonesome Whiskey Falls Eli youthful Band

For the Porcupine Tree direction, try O.S.I. - they're prog rock/metal with a touch of techno/trance.

Try - Go, Hello Helicopter, Simple Life, and When Your'e Ready.

And related to O.S. I. - Chroma Key (Kevin Moore is in both) Prog rock and a bigger dose of techno/trance

Try - You Go Now - Get back in the car, and Astronaut Down

Dead Air for Radios - Colorblind, and On the page

And I second Spock's Beard and Pandora

so judging by what you have listed, Mogwai, definitely. they have this beautiful aural quality that reminds me of Sigur Ros and are very much a guitar-based band that i think are pushing the definition of rock music.

a band that is known for their soft/loud/soft dynamics are God Speed You Black Emperor! possibly might take some getting used to but really quite nice.

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead are very good unappreciated band. more loud than quiet.

Northern Chorus has very...pretty music.

Iron & Wine make gorgeous mournful music more guitar-folk-based, if that interests you. the later album is quite lushly beautiful.

you can test any of these bands out on the free internet station, Pandora.com, that you can program to your own liking. it has a fairly wide music selection and will try to play music according to what you enter onto your stations. so if you put in Sigur Ros, it will play bands that they think sounds similar.

happy music searching! and hope you get plenty of different varied recommendations.

Muse

I think you would like Mer des Noms by A Perfect Circle, or Salival by Tool. Those are amazing! Salival has some really laid back , intense songs on there. Any tool Cd would be awesome though.

Well, since Porcupine Tree are prog, I'd suggest :~

Mike Oldfield {70's and 80's}

Jethro Tull

And also : Goldfrapp

If you haven't tried them already, try Architecture In Helsinki's first album, Fingers Crossed. It's very mellow, and definitely pretty. They use a lot of different instruments, including lots of synths, guitars, glockenspiels, thumb pianos, flutes, etc. It's pretty cool. =]

Edit: "It'5!" is from their second album, which is a lot more hyper (I guess?) than Fingers Crossed, which is much more mellow. =]

As Tall As Lions

Evaline

Placebo

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