bands i love (not really in any order): 

• The Beatles
• The Strokes
• Fleet Foxes
• The White Stripes
• Broken Bells 
• Stornoway
• The Flaming Lips 
• Arcade Fire 
• The Mountain Goats
• Belle and Sebastian 
• Neutral Milk Hotel 
• Sufjan Stevens 
• Nickel Eye 
• Arctic Monkeys
• The Black Keys 
• MGMT
• Vampire Weekend
• Acid House Kings
• The Smiths
• Smith Westerns
• Pink Floyd
• Moldy Peaches
• Broken Social Scene 
• Noah and the Whale
• The Microphones
• Harlem
• Real Estate
• Gomez
• Good Old War
• Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
• Camera Obscura 
• Of Montreal 
• The Magnetic Fields 
• Kings of Convenience 
• God Help the Girl
• The New Pornographers
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 
• The Lucksmiths 
• Jens Lekman 
• Bon Iver
• Sun Airway