Who is the best new artist since January 2000?

[senrab]

Coldplay.

 

[brettig]

Doves! (yes they've been around far longer than that, but they sneak in technically on account of Lost Souls getting a US release in 2000 )

 

[Red Ships of Scalla-Festa]

canadian mainstream music is atrocious.

lets go through it shall we?

we'll start with the good.

1. neil young
2. l. cohen
3. the weakerthans
4. my band. what. fine, i dont have a band.

bad

1. nickelback
2. theory of a deadman
3. default
4. the hip (i respect them to a degree, but wow are they boring)
5. olp. everything since naveed has been silly
6. matt good. this asshole has nothing to be cocky about.
7. celine dion
8. alanis morissette
9. avril lavigne
10. 3LW
11. sugar jones
12. ann murray
13. seether

and im sure there are many more that im forgetting.

 

[cujo]

canadian mainstream music is atrocious.

lets go through it shall we?

we'll start with the good.

1. neil young
2. l. cohen
3. the weakerthans
4. my band. what. fine, i dont have a band.

bad

1. nickelback
2. theory of a deadman
3. default
4. the hip (i respect them to a degree, but wow are they boring)
5. olp. everything since naveed has been silly
6. matt good. this asshole has nothing to be cocky about.
7. celine dion
8. alanis morissette
9. avril lavigne
10. 3LW
11. sugar jones
12. ann murray
13. seether

and im sure there are many more that im forgetting.

Exactly

I'll add a few more to the bad list:

Shania Twain
Wave
Rush (sorry, it's true)
Plus whatever bastardized creation emerges from Canadian Idol and all that other garbage.

Good List:

The Guess Who (for nostalgia of course, I don't particularly enjoy them)

 

[U2girl91289]

COLDPLAY!! I just discovered them a few days ago & they rock!