best artists in the last 15 years

Bjork is the most solid one on my list. She has created so many new environments, is so innovative, and the results are just so beautiful, I think she's up there in the pantheon.

Babyshambles/libertines - I think that guy is really tapping in, he's created some new spaces, he has a way with great lyrics and some new sounds, so he's in.

Moby did some nice electronic stuff, is he there though?

Any thoughts on Interpol? I love their music, I think they can do coldplay better than coldplay( on "pace is the trick"), their 3 records are solid, solid, solid. I don't know if they are too derivative of bauhaus, etc, so i'm on the fence about including them. I have similar concerns about the strokes, three addictive albums, but did they do anything new?

Bjork is wonderful. I haven't really listened to her last album. I've started it a few times, but I haven't been able to "get my head around it"....yet.

I like Moby too. "Play" was worth the hype.

Here's a few other recommendations:

"Outrospective" & "To All New Arrivals" by Faithless
"Third" by Portishead
"Seventh Tree" by Goldfrapp
"New Amerykah" by Erykah Badu
"The Seldom Seen Kid" by Elbow
"Fleet Foxes" by Fleet Foxes

I would add Tori Amos and I am sure there are others but she comes to mind first. Marc

Fytunes, I prefer Portishead's Dummy to Thirds, I think it is a classic but glad they made thirds and did not try to duplicate their old sound.

btw what is your favorite Bjork?

How would you describe Fleet Foxes?

thanks...

Shadorne

Here are some of the better "new" bands I like:

Manu Chao: Latin Punk with Reggae shadings: best live band = to the Clash on his best nights--blew Radiohead off the stage last Friday in SF

Lucinda Williams: nobody does "blue" better than her

Gotan Project: hypnotic mix of electronica and tango from Argentina

Paul Kelly: one of the best singer songwriters out of OZ

Hot Chip: best merging of UK electronica and Prince style funk

Jesus Alemany: best Afro-Cuban jazz

The Raveonettes: Buddy Holly meets Jesus and Mary Chain filtered with Danish cool

Los Lobos: world class musicians who play like they have been together four decades--which they have

Sigur Ros: dream like soundstages that reflect their Icelandic roots

Anthony & the Johnsons: a voice so fragile and emotive

Keren Ann: French torch singer who sounds like a smoke and beer in some distant cafe in Paris

Los Abandoned: multi-cultural punkers who recall X

Tokyo Police Club: one of the best emerging bands from Montreal

Rodrigo & Gabriela: Mexican buskers exiled in Ireland--acoustic like you have never heard it

Cold War Kids: best band out of Orange County--literate in style to Dylan and Waits