Favorite New Band of 2006

[Random Citizen]

The Big Sleep...they played before midnight on New Year's Eve, so technically I first heard them in 2005, but I didn't listen to their EP until I got home, so it was 2006.    
 
 Candy Bars...I still listen to "Enough to Choke a Cold Air" frequently.
 
 Voxtrot
 
 Lily Allen*
 
 Peter Bjorn and John*...not new, but new to me in 2006
 
 * Thanks to WhyControl and the Bliss nights for those introductions.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by brennser:
  essex green
 

i'm pretty sure i saw them 2 or 3 years ago opening for someone at the black cat. . maybe luna?

[BookerT]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  essex green
 

i'm pretty sure i saw them 2 or 3 years ago opening for someone at the black cat. . maybe luna? [/b]

i saw them 7 years ago at galaxy hut. so take THAT. but whatever, it doesn't have to be a band that "broke" in 2006, right? in that case, for some reason i never really listened to the saints before this year, and i have no idea why. those first two albums are pretty much perfect.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by BookerT:
   

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  essex green
 

i'm pretty sure i saw them 2 or 3 years ago opening for someone at the black cat. . maybe luna? [/b]

i saw them 7 years ago at galaxy hut. so take THAT.  [/b]

fair enough. . .the years are all running together for me, but i know it was not 7 years ago. . .after looking at their releases, it must have been 2003 when i saw them.
 
 it just sort of reminded me of how fountains of wayne got nominated for best new artist based on their 3rd album.

[brennser]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  essex green
 

i'm pretty sure i saw them 2 or 3 years ago opening for someone at the black cat. . maybe luna? [/b]

2 years ago!! oh you're so cool!!
 
 I was invoking the new to me rule instituted by pollard

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I didn't mean to imply that Van Hunt was a new artist. Rather, he put out and R&B album in 2006 that didn't suck.
 
 

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
   

Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
  Try Corrinne Bailey Rae. Though it won't make my top 10 of the year list, it was a good debut. Also the Van Hunt album was good.
 
   

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
 , R&B's sucked for a while (Sade, where arrrrrrrrreee you?),

[/b]

I actually heard Corrinne was hot.  Been meaning to check it out.  Van Hunt's been around for a minute though . . . . . [/b]

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Pollard's rule is no good. Basically, you could say anyone you want. For example, I started liking My Morning Jacket in 2006.
 
 
 

Originally posted by brennser:
   

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  essex green
 

i'm pretty sure i saw them 2 or 3 years ago opening for someone at the black cat. . maybe luna? [/b]

2 years ago!! oh you're so cool!!
 
 I was invoking the new to me rule instituted by pollard [/b]

[brennser]

whatever you say VD, whatever you say.....keep up the trainspotting, it suits you
 
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[brennser]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  band you first heard in 2006? or band whose first album was in 2006?
 
 if it was band first heard in 2006 I would say Heartless Bastards

agreed...I would add to my original post
 
 Imogen Heap
 +/-
 
 and
 
 The Burning Leaves and
 The Automatic
 
 altho I've only heard a few songs from the latter two...

[ratioci nation]

Essex Green also opened for Delgados a couple of years ago at Black Cat
 
 Well if my rule doesnt work I am not sure who I would choose but most of the bands in this thread dont count then
 
 I am sticking with my rule though and adding Deadboy and the Elephantmen, I am pretty sure any band I have listened to this year at least existed in some form last year

[akaash]

Beirut
 Wolfmother
 
 Those are the only two worth mentioning. Voxtrot was last year.

[kmb187]

Deadboy & The Elephantmen are good, as someone mentioned.
 
 This is a bit of a cheat, but I'm going to go ahead and list Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, as well as Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins. I know Haines and Lewis have been around, but neither released albums until this year. (Well, Emily did, but without Soft Skeleton.)

[Bombay Chutney]

I'm really digging Soccer Team.

[kosmo vinyl]

The 2006 Van Hunt record is great and this was the first year I'd heard of him.  I have his earlier release but haven't given it much time yet.
 
 Middle Distance Runner
 Alice Smith
 As Fast As
 The Sails
 The Hard Tomorrows
 Voxtrot
 The Apparitions
 The World Record
 The Keene Brothers  

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  band you first heard in 2006? or band whose first album was in 2006?
 

I was thinking the latter...