The The, Judybats, Gillian Welch, Better than Ezra, Low, Hank Williams, Jayhawks, Lightning Hopkins, B. B. King, Stereophonics, Radiohead, Abandoned Pools, Ours, They Might be Giants, Depeche Mode, New Order, The Cure, NIN, Filter, Muse, Public Image Limited, P J Harvey, Indigo Girls, REM, Joe Frank (KCRW), Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Semisonic, Anything Box, Mission UK, Morrissey, Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, Men Without Hats, Spacehog, Verve, Grandaddy, Marcy Playground, Crash Test Dummies, Tracy Chapman, Tracy Bonham, 10,000 Maniacs, White Zombie, Sponge, The Cranberries, Vladimir Horowitz, Noam Chomsky, Django Reinhardt, The Proclaimers, Throwing Muses, Josh Joplin Group, Richard and Linda Thompson, Mom and Dad. Anybody with a mournful and earnest melody gets my attention.
