Music
First off, I'm a sucker for the piano. I LOVE music -- Tom Waits and Ben Folds will melt your face (or heart), with a hand from these guys:
Punk/Emo/Indie/Rock: Alkaline Trio, Air, American Football, The Anniversary, The Arcade Fire, At The Drive-In, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds!, Ben Kweller, Beulah, British Sea Power, Coldplay, Counting Crows, Death Cab For Cutie, The Eels, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, The Format, Fountains of Wayne, The Get Up Kids, Granddaddy, Green Day, Guster, Jack Johnson, Jump Little Children, Jupiter Sunrise, Maximo Park, Millencolin, Mojave 3, Nada Surf, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Owsley, Postal Service, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Saves The Day, Social Distortion, Something Corporate, Songs: Ohia, Stereophonics, Sun Kil Moon, Supersuckers, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Tenacious D, Thrice, VHS Or Beta, Wallflowers, The Weakerthans
"Jam" Bands: Phish, String Cheese Incident, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Dave Matthews Band, Disco Biscuits, Gabe Dixon Band, Grampa's Grass, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jazz Mandolin Project, Keller Williams, Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, moe., Medeski Martin and Wood, The New Deal, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Ozomatli, Xavier Rudd, Soulive!, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Trey Anastasio Band, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Widespread Panic, Yonder Mountain String Band
Country: Rodney Crowell, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Wilco
Blues: Tom Waits, Gov't Mule
Hip Hop: Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Hieroglyphics, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Jurassic 5
Classic: ..Bob Dylan.., The Clash, CCR, Paul Simon, Talking Heads, Neil Young