bands that are mega hyped

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Nine Inch Nails

animal collective

radiohead, tool

  On 2/21/2010 at 11:52 PM, triachus said:

radiohead, tool

good one!

grizzly bear, black eyed peas, animal collective, aphex twin, joanna newsom

i also like a lot of mainstream pop, but i don't have a taste for most "indie"

Radiohaed

QOTSA

Animal Collective

Beach House

SebastiAn and all them Ed banger lads......shit loads of others.

radiohead

lady gaga

Radiohead

Tool

Grizzly Bear (just Veckatimest)

Animal Collective (jusy Merriweather Post Pavilion)

The Beatles

Fugazi

Fuck I don't know what else is hyped and what isn't. I'd say many of the artists I listen to are hyped on some level, and that's not say I follow hype by any means. It just happens to be.

squarepusher, cylob, luke vibert, plaid, mu-ziq.

last four shouldnt even be subforums imo

  On 2/22/2010 at 4:47 AM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

squarepusher, cylob, luke vibert, plaid, mu-ziq.

 

last four shouldnt even be subforums imo

Are you posting in the right thread?

I don't see how Plaid is overhyped, really.

Animal Collective

I don't know if the rest count as "mega hyped":

Tom Waits

Dan Deacon (YES EVEN BROMST, in fact ESPECIALLY BROMST (Especially Lisa! But ESSSPECIALLY Bart!!!))

Boredoms

Autechre

Wisp

ope wrong thread lol.

Nirvana, Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Rammstein (if they're considered hyped), Franz Ferdinand.

radiohead, nirvana, red hot chili peppers, daft punk, jack johnson, tool, jamie lidell, aphex twin, björk

Phoenix

Radiohead

Grizzly Bear

The Kooks

Justice

Daft Punk

coldplay

paramore (i'm seeing them live tomorrow night lol)

uh, do i win the thread?

Daft Punk of course, the hyper-hyped side of Ed Banger (Justice and SebastiAn). Gorillaz.

Miley Cyrus.

And of course some of our french unknown groups.

Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rihanna

  On 2/22/2010 at 12:18 PM, modey said:

coldplay

paramore (i'm seeing them live tomorrow night lol)

 

uh, do i win the thread?

Yes. I actually think paramore is alright too.

Stuff to add, not said earlier...

Burial

The Bug

Chemical Brothers

Deerhunter/sideprojects of Deerhunter

System of a Down

Incubus

I am guilty of owning t-shirts of Coldplay, U2, Massive Attack, Peter Bjorn and John, and Radiohead (of course). I guess Mono and DMBQ wouldn't count.

Ok, I went through Pitchfork's "Best New Music" selections along with a few that others that are deservedly hyped:

Animal Collective / Panda Bear are awesome

Hot Chip

Pantha Du Prince

Grizzly Bear

Four Tet

Beach House (though I don't think they're as hyped as they should be)

Deerhunter

Flying Lotus

Flaming Lips

Sufjan Stevens

Band of Horses

Fleet Foxes

Radiohead

Joanna Newsom

Feist

Cut Copy

Memory Tapes and Toro & Moi (best of the recent "Chillwave" artists)

Dirty Projectors

Burial

Broken Social Scene

Lindstrom

The National

old incubus

tool

animal collective

broken social scene (hyped?)

grizzly bear

explosions in the sky

mogwai (hyped?)

AUTECHREAUTECHREAUTECHREAUTECHREAUTECHRE

Oh yeah forgot some of those...

Daft Punk (only Homework)

Joanna Newsom

Sufjan Stevens

Hot Chip (only The Warning)

I also will add Grizzly Bear, The National, and Flaming Lips

Right now I am wearing a 2007 tour t-shirt for Van Halen, but I never listen to them.

A lot of these have been said already, but:

radiohead

tv on the radio

of montreal

zero 7 (but not their later stuff)

lcd / hot chip / dfa

bjork