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Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

A
Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Alpha
Amusement Parks on Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Carrie
Carter USM
Martin Carthy
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Cast
Caterwaul
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Charlatans
The Charlottes
Chas N Dave
Cherry Ghost
The Cinematic Orchestra
Ross Clark & the Scarfs Go Missing
The Clerks
Clinic
The Close Lobsters
Coldcut
Coldplay
John Cooper Clarke
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Coral
Elvis Costello
Cousteau
Cranebuilders
Crazyhead
The Creatures
CUD
The Cure
D
The Darling Buds
The Datsuns
Death in Vegas
The Delgados
Delphic
Dodgy
Doves
Dreadzone
Dub Pistols
Dubtribe Sound System
Durutti Column
Bob Dylan
E
Steve Earle
Echo and the Bunnymen
Echoboy
The Eighteenth Day of May
Elbow
Electrafixion
Electric Soft Parade
Electric Sound Of Joy
Embrace
F
Fairport Convention
Th' Faith Healers
Faithless
Faith No More
The Fall
Fields of the Nephilim
Five Thirty
The Flaming Lips
Florence & The Machine
Foo Fighters
Four Tet
The Free Association
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Fun Loving Criminals
The Futureheads
G
Ganger
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Ghost Dance
Glasvegas
Global Communication
Godflesh
Goldrush
Gomez
Jose Gonzalez
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
The Go! Team
Grand Drive
Grass-Show
The Grave Architects
Gravenhurst
Al Green
Green on Red
Groove Armada
Guillemots
Guns N' Roses
H
Nick Harper
Rolf Harris
The Heart-throbs
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Kristin Hersh
The Hidden Cameras
Micah P. Hinson
Hole
Jools Holland
Holy Fuck
House of Brothers
The House of Love
The Housemartins
Howlin' Rain
The Hunters Club
I
I Am Kloot
Idlewild
Interpol
Iron And Wine
It Bites
J
The Jack Rubies
Matthew Jay
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
Johnny Domino
Joolz
K
Keane
The Killers
David Kitt
Kula Shaker
L
Lambchop
Leatherface
Leaves
The Levellers
The Libertines
Loop
Low
Lowgold
Lush
M
The Magic Numbers
Magnolia Electric Co.
The Majesticons
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Maps
Marillion
Marion
J Mascis
Massive Attack
Mega City Four
The Memory Band
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mercury Rev
MGMT
Mia Doi Todd
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Mission
Modest Mouse
Mono
The Montrose Avenue
John Moore And The Expressway
Morrissey
The Motorcycle Boy
Bob Mould
Mudhoney
My Bloody Valentine
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
Mylo
N
The National
The Necks
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The New Folk Implosion
New Model Army
New Order
Joanna Newsom
Scout Niblett
Nirvana
Now It's Overhead
O
Oasis
Okkervil River
Ooberman
Orbital
Beth Orton
P
The Pale Saints
The Parkinsons
Pavement
Penthouse
Pitman
The Pixies
The Pogues
Emma Pollock
Polytechnic
Pond
Pop Will Eat Itself
Primal Scream
The Primitives
The Prodigy
The Prudes
Public Enemy
Pulp
Q
Finlay Quaye
Queens of the Stone Age
R
Radiohead
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Snapper
REM
Reverend and The Makers
Ride
Rival Schools
RJD2
Roots Manuva
Tim Rose
Run DMC
S
Saint Etienne
Saint Joan
Salvation
Samamidon
Ulrich Schnauss
Scott 4
DJ Scotch Egg
Mr Scruff
The Sea and Cake
Seafood
Shack
DJ Shadow
The Shins
Michelle Shocked
The Shortwave Set
Silver Sun
Simian
Six.by Seven
The Sleepy Jackson
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Snuff
Sonic Youth
Soul II Soul
The Soup Dragons
Space
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Spear of Destiny
Spin Spin The Dogs
Spiritualized
Spring Heel Jack
Starsailor
St. Germain
The Stills
The Stone Roses
The Streets
Joe Strummer
Subkicks
Sugar
The Sugarcubes
Sun Kil Moon
Swans
T
Tapes N Tapes
Teenage Fanclub
The Telescopes
Texas
That Petrol Emotion
Them Crooked Vultures
Richard Thompson
Throwing Muses
Glenn Tilbrook
Tindersticks
The Ting-Tings
Travis
Tricky
Tunng
Turin Brakes
The Twilight Sad
U
Ultrasound
Under Neath What
Underworld
V
The Verve
Voice of the Beehive
W
Martha Wainwright
The Walking Seeds
The Walkmen
The Waterboys
The Wedding Present
We Show Up On Radar
Whistler
White Lies
The White Stripes
Wilco
Robbie Williams
The Wisdom of Harry
Witness
The Wonder Stuff
World Domination Enterprises
The Wurzels
X
X-Press 2
Y
Yam Who
James Yorkston and The Athletes
Z
Zero 7
The Zutons

2-year LastFM Anniversary stats

Two years: 23,472 plays, 2,387 artists
One year: 9,084 plays, 1,605 artists

Top 20 artists after 2 years [last year's rank]
1 The Pogues 538 [1]
2 Great Big Sea 243 [5]
3 Robert Earl Keen 227 [4]
4 Jimmy Buffett 224 [2]
5 Jim Lauderdale 208 [3]
6 Wilco 199 [8]
7 Steve Earle 190 [6]
8 John Prine 189 [7]
9 The Tossers 185 [12]
10 Carbon Leaf160 [9]
11 Gaelic Storm 159 [10]
12 Dwight Yoakam 154 [15]
13 Kelly Willis 150 [20]
14 The Decemberists 149 [19]
15 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 146 [14]
16 The Dillards 145 [16]
17 Robbie Fulks 143 [18]
18 Marty Stuart 138 [17]
19 House of Freaks 136 [13]
20 The Chieftains 132 [11]

Top 20 artists of last 12 months
1 The Pogues 315
2 Great Big Sea 149
3 Robert Earl Keen 127
4 Jimmy Buffett 119
5 Wilco 116
6 The Tossers 114
7 Jim Lauderdale 109
8 John Prine 104
9 Steve Earle 102
10 Kelly Willis 89
11 Dwight Yoakam 86
12 Gaelic Storm 85
13 The Decemberists 84
14 Reckless Kelly 82
15 Carbon Leaf 80
16 Robbie Fulks 78
16 The Dillards 78
18 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 77
18 Kevin Welch 77
20 Hal Ketchum 76

Top 18 albums:
1 The Pogues – Red Roses for Me 60
2 The Pogues – Rum Sodomy & the Lash 56
3 House of Freaks – Monkey on a Chain Gang 55
4 The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God 50
5 Steve Goodman – Anthology: No Big Surprise 47
6 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2 44
7 Jimmy Buffett – Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads 43
7 John Prine – Great Days: Anthology 43
9 The Pogues – Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say Pogue Mahone! (Disc 5) 42
10 David Munnelly – By Heck 40
11 The Sky Kings – From Out of the Blue 39
12 House of Freaks – Tantilla 38
12 Steeleye Span – The Lark In The Morning 38
14 Uncle Tupelo – No Depression 37
14 Rodney Crowell – Fate's Right Hand 37
14 The Knitters – The Modern Sounds of... 37
14 The Tossers – Agony 37
14 The Pogues – Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say Pogue Mahone! (Disc 4) 37

cheekeemunkee's top albums (7 days)
1. Bad Religion - The Process of Belief (14) 2. Pearl Jam - Yield (12) 3. Midnight Oil - Earth and Sun and Moon (12) 4. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (11) 5. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws (11) 6. Steve Earle - Jerusalem (11) 7. INXS - X (11) 8. illScarlett - All Day With It (10) 9. R.E.M. - Out of Time (9) 10. Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (7)

Last.fm Top Artists
Two familiar faces are tied for #1 this week, as George Strait and Miranda Lambert both have 24 listeners. Alan Jackson is one behind to end up at #3, and the group of artists at #4 with 21 listeners includes Taylor Swift, Patty Loveless, Keith Urban and Johnny Cash. For Swift and Urban, it’s the best showing for either of them in quite some time. Perhaps Swift’s release of a recycled old album with a few new songs, photos and videos brought a few additional fans out of the woodwork. Joe Nichols makes a strong showing as well, with 17 listeners putting him at #17. Lorrie Morgan, despite the fact that Amazon was giving away her new album for spare change and pocket lint, ended up with 11 listeners, actually one down from last week. Lyle Lovett, who was the beneficiary of a similar bargain with his new album, had 10 listeners, an increase for him. Hayes Carll ended up at #21 with 16 listeners, the best of the Americana bunch, with Steve Earle (13) trailing.

Last.fm Top Albums
There is still a sizable gap between Revolution, with 18 listeners, and the rest of the field. Fearless (impossible to tell if it’s the Regular, Platinum or Karaoke version – yes, there is a karaoke version) came in at #2 with 13. Brad Paisley was next with American Saturday Night (12). Again, the grouping at #4 has a little something for everyone. There’s Justin Townes Earle’s Midnight At The Movies for the Americana fans, Lee Ann Womack’s Call Me Crazy and Strait’s It Just Comes Natural for mainstream fans, and Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts for American Idol fans. Play On made it up to #16 despite not being released until tomorrow, so that’s bound to have a big showing in next week’s charts. Elsewhere, as further proof that you can get good stuff for free, the T For Texas T From Tennessee sampler that’s available as a free download from Amazon had 6 listeners.

Last.fm Top Singles
We have a dethroning, as Lady Antebellum has the #1 track, with “Need You Now” having 9 listeners. It’s still a Lambert-centric Top 10, with “Dead Flowers,” “The House That Built Me” and “White Liar” all having 8 listeners, but the cracks are showing. The non-Ran tracks in the rest of the Top 10 include Kellie Pickler’s “Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You,” Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova,” Eli Young Band’s “When It Rains,” and David Nail’s “Red Light.” Any Top 10 with a Kellie Pickler song in it is pretty special already, but “Casanova” puts it over the top. Morgan’s classic covers album has six listeners, and their favorites included “Wine Me Up,” “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Cry.”

Billboard Country Songs
It took 18 weeks, but Zac Brown Band’s “Toes” made it to #1, giving the band two #1s and a #2 to start its major-label career. The other big jump in the Top 5 was that “Welcome To The Future” moved from #4 to #2. Toby Keith leaped from #55 to #39 with “Cryin’ For Me (Wayman’s Song), and Strait’s “Twang” jumped from #30 to #24. “Backwoods” by Justin Moore moved from #50 to #42, because it’s been almost 10 minutes since a song about country living was a hit. Thank God “Southern Voice” keeps moving up the charts, up to #16 this week, because the country radio audience will be experiencing withdrawals.

Billboard Country Albums
While the single continues to gain airplay, Tim McGraw debuted at #1 with Southern Voice (the album), which made it to #2 on the Billboard Top 200. Swift will likely have her one-week stay at #2 before Fearless, or at least some version of it, goes back to #1. Revolution stays in the Top 5, moving from #4 to #5, and Lady Antebellum moves from #7 to #6 after 80 weeks on the chart. It’s the second-longest tenure for any album on the charts. Lyle Lovett debuted at #8 with Natural Forces, ensuring that the Top 10 has at least one artist that makes the Taylor Swift fans say, “Who?” Keep On Loving You by Reba McEntire moved up from #16 to #13 and was the sales gainer for the week. The other notable debut was Bomshel’s Fight Like a Girl. Actually, any record that gets released by Curb Records and isn’t a greatest hits package is a notable debut.

Americana Music Association Chart
Robert Earl Keen made it to #1 with The Rose Hotel, with its 405 spins putting it at 2,234 total spins since its release. Lovett, Keen’s college roommate, moved up to #4 from #8. Corb Lund’s Losin’ Lately Gambler moved from #19 to #12, and his success will hopefully mean that the next time I see him live, there will be more than 20 people in the room. Son Volt’s American Central Dust moves back from #33 to #37, but its 5,629 total spins make it the most played record in the Top 40. The Mississippi Sheiks, an early era blues-type band from the 1930s, have earned a tribute album, which debuted at #28. Things About Comin’ My Way includes contributions from Carolina Chocolate Drops, Danny Barnes, Bruce Cockburn and North Mississippi All Stars, among others.

Freebie of the Week
The Bee's Knees is a quartet from Worcester, Mass. The band’s influences on its Myspace page range from The Byrds and Carl Perkins to International Submarine Band and Paul Westerberg. Despite the fact that they misspell Bill Monroe’s name, that probably puts them in the Americana realm. They have several songs available on Last.fm for download. Check out “Kristi,” “Dear Carpenter” and “Down The Line” in particular.

In alphabetical order by artist:

Vem, meu amor - Banda Eva - from the album Banda Eva Ao Vivo


Accident Of Birth - Bruce Dickinson - from the album Accident Of Birth


Chan chan - Buena Vista Social Club - from the album Buena Vista Social Club


Ai! Que saudades da Amélia - Fundo De Quintal & Gabriel "O Pensador" - from the live compilation album Casa De Samba 2


Staring at Your Window With a Suitcase in My Hand - Jon Bon Jovi - from the album Destination Anywhere


Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai - from the album Young Team


Sympathique - Pink Martini - from the album Sympathique


Karma Police - Radiohead - from the album OK Computer


Do What You Have to Do - Sarah McLachlan - from the album Surfacing


The Other Side of Town - Steve Earle - from the album El Corazon

In alphabetical order by artist:

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette - from the album Jagged Little Pill


This Ain't A Love Song - Bon Jovi - from the album These Days


This Hard Land - Bruce Springsteen


Mama África - Chico César - from the album Aos Vivos


A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater - from the EP A Change of Seasons


Dislocated Day - Porcupine Tree - from the album The Sky Moves Sideways


Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead - from the album The Bends


1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins - from the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness


Tear Stained Eye - Son Volt - from the album Trace


Rivers of Babylon - Steve Earle - from the album Train a Comin'

Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are

Alejandro Escovedo Allison Moorer Andy Timmons Capercaillie Cherish the Ladies Danú Dervish Don Henley Déanta Emmylou Harris Eric Johnson Flook G3 Gillian Welch Hem Iris DeMent Jay Farrar John Hiatt John Petrucci John Prine Karan Casey Kasey Chambers Kathleen Edwards Led Zeppelin Liz Carroll Lyle Lovett Lúnasa Mannheim Steamroller Mary Chapin Carpenter Mary Gauthier Michelle Shocked Nanci Griffith Neko Case Neko Case and Her Boyfriends Patrick Street Patty Griffin Rosanne Cash Savatage Shawn Colvin Shelby Lynne Son Volt Steve Earle Steve Vai The Be Good Tanyas The Bothy Band The Doobie Brothers The Jayhawks Tift Merritt Uncle Tupelo Yngwie Malmsteen

After about 11 months in existence, The 9513 group on Last.fm added its 100th member this week. It’s a nice milestone for something that started as an idea on the forums. Thanks to everyone who’s a member and is contributing to our charts.

Currently, our members are really digging Brad Paisley, who is the #1 Artist for the second week in a row. The numbers are a bit closer than last week; with 26 listeners, he was only one ahead of George Strait and two ahead of Sugarland. Five other artists–Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson, Keith Urban, Dwight Yoakam and Trisha Yearwood–had 23 listeners. One interesting cluster of singers is at #19, where Dolly Parton, LeAnn Rimes and Taylor Swift are all tied with 18 listeners. No matter what kind of country music you like, you’re bound to like at least one of those three. Steve Earle (14 listeners) and Todd Snider (12) lead the way for Americana singers.

Now that we’re growing larger, it’s nice to see some new names popping up in the bottom of the charts. The Be Good Tanyas are up to 6 listeners, for example, and even The Baseball Project (probably the most niche-y band you can find) has 3. We’re also seeing a rock influence, with Bruce Springsteen (14), Coldplay (13) and U2 (12) showing up in the middle of the charts. I’m fine with Coldplay being on the charts, and I likely contributed to their place on the charts this week. However, if they or Radiohead start showing up as the top artist like they do for 90% of the groups on Last.fm, we’re in trouble.

There are a total of 14 albums in the Top 10, thanks to ties, and Sugarland charted at #1, #3 and #5, with Love On The Inside being the top album with 14 listeners. Also in the Top 10 are Swift’s Fearless (13 listeners), Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts (12), Dierks Bentley’s Feel That Fire (11) and Darius Rucker’s Learn To Live (10). Rascal Flatts ended up at #15 for Me And My Gang (9 listeners), which is a pretty good showing for a band that doesn’t generally show up all that often in the upper reaches of The 9513 charts. Of course, I’d almost prefer Radiohead being #1 on our charts than I would Rascal Flatts, but a little variety makes things more interesting. Right at the bottom of the chart, with 5 listeners, is High Hopes & Heartbreak by American idol alum Brooke White. Anyone who’s heard it care to offer a review? Is it better than most Idol albums? Admittedly, that’s a pretty modest goal, but still.

The Top Tracks charts was pretty competitive, with no particular song standing out. Let’s see what happens when Jamey Johnson’s new song becomes more widely available, because I’m guessing “My Way To You” won’t be stuck at 186th place for long. In the mean time, Paisley’s “Welcome To The Future” and Sugarland’s “It Happens” tied with 9 listeners for the #1 spot. Five songs had 8 listeners, including “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” by Rucker and “Dead Flowers” by Miranda Lambert. Another Lambert tune, “Famous in a Small Town,” rounds out the top 10 with 7 listeners, along with Martina McBride’s “I Just Call You Mine” and Billy Currington’s “People Are Crazy.” There were 18 songs tied for #11 with 6 listeners, and five of them were Lee Ann Womack songs. So all the Womack fans need to try a little harder to get her to dominate the Top 10.

Freebie Of The Week: I know we have a few Canadians in our group, so here’s a free EP from Great Lake Swimmers, one of the country’s better folk groups. They’ve released a new album, Lost Channels, this year, and they recently were featured in a Honda commercial for a song, “See You On The Moon” (originally recorded for a kids CD). This EP is a couple years old and contains live versions of songs from the first two full-length albums. “Various Stages” and “Moving pictures silent films” are the standouts. GLS has filled out into a full band, but the debut album, which is basically singer/writer Tony Dekkar with very sparse backing, is worth tracking down. It was recorded inside an abandoned grain silo, so the original version of “Moving Pictures” features crickets chirping in the background.

To see this week’s charts and join our group, head to http://www.last.fm/group/The+9513.