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More or less in chronological order...

Santana
Motorhead
The Repreive
7 Blue Skies
Traverser
Weezer
DJ Aoki
Forever & Always
Nightlights
How Dare You
Rise Against
Nas & Damian Marley
Marcus Miller
Minister Theory
April Phillips
The Charlie Daniels Band
Shinedown
Alberta Cross
Griffin Anthony
Ben Harper & Relentless7
Tigercity
Hooray For Earth
Surfer Blood
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Janelle Monae
Bob Dylan
The Critters
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
It's a trap!
Tyler Carter
This Providence
Go Radio
Cee Lo Green
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (x2)
Feist
I Fight Dragons
Miss May I
Breathe Carolina
Pierce the Veil
All Time Low
We Are the in Crowd
Of Mice & Men
Yellowcard
Taking Back Sunday
Four Years Strong
New Found Glory
Memphis May Fire
Chelsea Grin
Title Fight
Mayday Parade
blessthefall
Lostprophets
Funeral Party
Bayside
G-Eazy
Ballyhoo
The Green
Born of Osiris
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013- DuPont Theater, Wilmington, DE
Tall Firs
Jeff Mangum

Monday, September 10th, 2012- TLA Philadelphia, PA
Amanda Palmer

Saturday, June 16th, 2012- Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
The Roots
Pretty Lights
Die Antwoord
Hot Chip
deadmau5

Friday, January 13th, 2012- Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
Cults
Dirty Fences
Mrs magician

Saturday, November 13th, 2011 - Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
Beirut
Basia Bulat

Thursday, June 9th, 2011-Sunday June 12th, 2011- Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN
Thursday:
River City Extension
Freelance Whales
Best Coast
Friday:
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Matt and Kim partial set
The Decemberists
Florence + the Machine
My Morning Jacket
Arcade Fire
Bassnectar partial set
Lil Wayne
Ratatat
Saturday:
Man Man
Mumford and Sons
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(or the ones I like the most)

Drummers:

Neil Peart (Rush)

Stewart Copeland (Curved Air, The Police)

Matt Cameron (Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam,...)

Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chickenfoot, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatballs)

Ray Luzier (Army Of Anyone, Korn)

Pat Torpey (Mr. Big)

Simon Phillips (Toto)

Ian Paice (Deep Purple)

Dom Howard (Muse)

Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion, Tenacious D)





Guitarists:

Joe Satriani(solo, Chickenfoot)

Alex Lifeson (Rush, solo)

Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Street Sweeper Social Club)

John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers, solo)

Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big, Racer X, solo)

George Harrison (The Beatles, solo)

David Gilmour (Pink Floyd, solo)

Slash (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, solo)

Steve Morse (Deep Purple, solo)

Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream, solo)

Tommy Emmanuel (solo)

Jimi Hendrix (solo)



Bassguitarists:

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I started using the service back when it was named AudioScrobbler and it didn't have 70% of the features that are now available on the current site.

Thanks to it I've made several friends, got to know tons of new artists/tracks and attended to events that I didn't even know they were going to happen! 8)

Stats
So in 5 years I've listened to 171,212 tracks (10,345 different artists).

Meanwhile, I've attended 49 concerts (72 different artists).

1,839 Loved Tracks | 165 Posts | 0 Playlists | 978 shouts | 23 journals

My Music Taste
I'm into jazz, rock, indie, electronic and female vocalists, including:
Faith No More,Billy Talent, Radiohead, Beirut, Borgore, Dave Matthews Band, Pure Reason Revolution, Dark Tranquillity, Incubus, Jamie Cullum, Killswitch Engage, Michael Jackson, Eva Cassidy, Murder by Death, The Flashbulb, Saltillo, Seu Jorge, Katatonia, The Prodigy, Megadeth, Alter Bridge, Shpongle, Oficina G3, Anathema, Gnarls Barkley, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Muse, Ihsahn…

1. What's your favorite song by 15?
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

2. How did you get into 20?
Mike Gordon - Through Phish

3. Who is your favorite member in 1?
Dave Matthews Band - Dave Matthews is awesome. Carter Beauford is awesome. Tim Reynolds is awesome. I don't know, it's difficult to decide. I love them all equally as if they were my children <3

4. What’s your favorite lyric by 29?
Thom Yorke - I don't know what it is about it, but there's a line in And It Rained All Night that goes...

One little leak becomes a lake
Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

...and every time I hear it, I just think, 'that is really cool'. I don't know whether its the way he sings it, or the words themselves. I just like it.

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Keith Jarrett - No, but I would absolutely love to. I always think when listening to it how incredible it must have been to be in attendance at The Köln Concert

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
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My top 100 albums...of the past (00's) decade only.

100. Per Nørgård - Nuit des Hommes
99. Mono - Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
98. Phil Keaggy - Lights of Madrid
97. Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor - Appalachian Journey
96. Infidel?/Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal
95. Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
94. Béla Fleck - Perpetual Motion
93. John Abercrombie - Cat 'n' Mouse
92. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
91. Mastodon - Leviathan
90. Paul Gilbert - Get Out of My Yard
89. Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion
88. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
87. Paatos - Kallocain
86. Antimatter - Lights Out
85. Homesick for Space - Unison
84. Ayreon - The Human Equation
83. Isis - Wavering Radiant
82. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
81. Toby Driver - In the L..L..Library Loft
80. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
79. The Gathering - Souvenirs
78. Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
77. Opeth - Deliverance
76. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
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Alright, as we near the end of this first Y2K decade, it's time to take a look back at all the best Albums that have been released in the last 40+ years.

I'll start off this extensive research with 2000, up until 2009. I'll then go back to 1980, all the way up to 1999, to then wrap things up with the 70s and before.

I'll be choosing my Top 25 Albums for each year; an ordered Top 10, and ~15 others worth mentioning. I'm also considering the live albums and EPs (~5), but they have their own section since songs on these have usually been released on official releases. The final result will be a Top 1000 for Official Albums, and Top ~250 for Live/EP albums.

These are general rankings of how I see them today, and based on my Last.FM songs playcounts (2005-now) put through the formula:

Total Sum of each Album's Song's (running time X playcount)
DIVIDED BY
Album's Total Running Time

Thanks to MediaMonkey and its amazing scripting abilities…