The Chalets
Oi!! They're 'my' suggestion
others worth your downloads are
A House if you want to hear one of my favorite (and by extension Irelands) bands of all time
BC Camplight if you like Belle and Sebastian
new Bloc Party
Angels of Light/Akron Family if you like slightly weird but very very good freak folk
Crooked Fingers if you like Wilco pre-YHF and a singer who sounds like Neil Diamond
Danko Jones if you like uncomplicated balls to the wall rock n roll
Eels if you feel like killing yourself
Gogol Bordello if you want to pogo around the room with unrestrained joy for 40 minutes
Heartless Bastards if you want to hear one of the greatest female voices in contemporary music
I Am Kloot if you want to score coolness points with Jaguar
Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave if you want to hear one of the original riot grrrls still going strong
Portastatic if you want to hear idiosyncratic power pop
+/- if you want to hear one of the most underrated albums of 2006
Richard Hawley if you still don't feel like killing yourself after listening to the Eels
Sultans of Ping if you want to know how to make a 2 1/2 minute garage rock classic
The Birthday Party if you want to know who Nick Cave was before he was Nick Cave
The Dears if you want to hear another one of 2006's best albums
The Frames if you want to hear the band that routinely outpolls U2 for best Irish band
The Frank and Walters if you want to hear power pop from Cork City, the real capital of Ireland
The Spinto Band if you want to hear one of the best young bands in the US
The Standard if you like Joy Division
The Weepies if you like beautiful, low key music
