Jim Root Quotes

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' - my brother gave me that album.

I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie music.

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

Of Montreal's early releases were loaded with playful but confessional acoustic tunes, but the band soon embraced glam-rock's freakier side on albums like 'Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?' and 'Skeletal Lamping.' It was a shift fans might not have tolerated if it weren't for frontman Kevin Barnes' catchy, personality-driven songs.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.

I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.

Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.

I grew up listening to the alternative rock music from the '90s. Some of my favorite bands included Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, and Cobra Verde.

I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order - older alternative, I guess.

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

I like Beach House a lot.