User blog comment:DawnBTVS/Post Your Song Recommendations/@comment-1976613-20110807032809

1. Tegan and Sara - Nineteen, When I Get Up, Light Up, My Number (Some of my favorite songs by them, they vary in style from synth pop to folk, but they are all awesome)

2. The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations, The Swish, The Weekenders, Your Little Hoodrat Friend (Some of the best lyrics ever in a song, great rock, great storytelling, it might be a little adult for younger kids...I don't really know)

3. The Mountain Goats - This Year, No Children, Going To Georgia, The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton (More folk, excellent lyrics, one of my absolute favorite songwriters)

4. The National - Slow Show, Looking For Astronauts, Conversation 16, Santa Clara (One of the great all around bands, great vocals, instrumentals, very mellow and cool, highly recommended)

5. Madeline Ava - Cheer Up, Buttercup, Symphonies In Silence, Telephone Lines, These Things No One Wants (Impossible to dislike ukelele pop. Most charming thing you will ever hear)

6. Ghost Mice - Cementville, Boy Meets Girl, I'll Be Happy, Italy. (Folk punk in which Chris has such a way of telling stories that he draws you in immediately and makes you feel like a friend)

7. Paul Baribeau - Never Get To Know, 8 Letters, Christmas Lights. Boys Like Me (Folk that is so relatable to anyone who has ever been hurt, he speaks to anyone's soul)

8. Jason Anderson - July 4, 2004, So Long, Tonight, Watch Your Step (He sings with such joy and passion that it is infectious, so upbeat, yet he can get incredibly tender with songs like So Long)

9. Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Master Of Art, The Pretty One, The Wait, Nervous Rex (Her voice is so beautiful and so is the music in the background, practically everyone I've showed these guys to has loved them)

10. Into It. Over It. - Wicker Park, Anchor, Orlando, Fl., ChiKeyGo (He can go in two different styles, upbeat punk full of emotion, or slowed down folk full of emotion, either way he is full of emotion and full of incredible)

That'll do for now.