Music for Brazilians

So it seems most Brazilian people love classic British guitar bands, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, The Smiths and The Cure. Oh, and Coldplay.

There’s no denying that lot have a back-catalogue of truly great music.

But come on Brazil, move with the times, there’s so much newer (and I’m going back to the 90’s here!) music that you need to hear, that’s been influenced by some of those old bands, or maybe not, but either way discovering it could change your life!

I’m no great music expert but here’s my attempt to suggest some alternatives (some/many of these you must know already, right?!):

– From the UK (in vaguely chronological order)

Oasis

Blur

Radiohead

The Stone Roses

Primal Scream

Pulp

Doves

The Verve

Super Furry Animals

Elbow

Arctic Monkeys

Kasabian

Amy Winehouse

Foals

Frank Turner

Florence & the Machine

Bombay Bicycle Club

Jake Bugg

The Vaccines

Mumford & Sons

The Prodigy (dancier option)

– USA

Nirvana

Pearl Jam

Jeff Buckley

Rage Against the Machine

Eels

The White Stripes

The Strokes

Kings of Leon

The Killers

Foo Fighters

Interpol

The National

Fleet Foxes

Bon Iver

The Black Keys

MGMT

Vampire Weekend

LCD Soundsystem (dancier option)

– Oz

Tame Impala

Jagwar Ma (dancier option)

OK, that’ll do for now, I’m bound to have missed several obvious ones, but can maybe add those later. Please look up some of these bands, just listen to whatever’s popular on YouTube, I think you’ll like it…