You should listen to The Gaslight Anthem. I tell everyone that, but seriously they have amazingly good lyrics for a modern rock band and they're brilliant. Also, I may have a bit of a crush on the lead singer BUT that is totally not why I'm reccing them. They are actually very good.

Laura Marling is a sort of out there thing and people don't tend to be all, "YAY SHE'S AWESOME!" I think this is mainly because she's classed as folk but she has some fun sort of pop-folk stuff that is hilarious and upbeat and she's about eighteen (or nineteen, I am far too lazy to look it up) and has some extraordinarily deep lyrics which are extremely surprising given her age. Wow, I sound like a patronising tit but yeah, she's fantastic.

The Hush Sound are upbeat and fun and poppy and I love their Goodbye Blues album, but they're sort of popular. The Tings Tings are Britpop and brilliant, TV on the Radio are my favourite for strange sort of indie rock business, Voxtrot is also extremely good and again sort of indie rock but they're fun so I don't care. My music taste is kind of crap, but they're ones I can think of the top of my head. And I should really stop rambling now.