New Music I Push: short lists are hard to do

Someone asked for a list of new and new-to-me music from the last 5 years or so that I could recommend for him to check out.  My brain is now like the straw dispenser jammed by too many straws trying to get out at once—I spend a lot of time looking for new music.  I managed to cut it down somewhat by listing only stuff I listen to regularly and/or actively tell people they should listen to.

Not-Short List of Newish Music I Listen to & Recommend

Shorter List

• ACRES
• Dewey Cox
  
• Drowning Pool
  
• Five Star Iris
  
• Lee Mellor
  
• Lights and Sounds
  
• Maroon 5
  
• Michael Tolcher
  
• The Mooney Suzuki
  
• Muse
  
• The Phlegmatics
  

More

• Arcade Fire
  
• Celldweller
  
• Deadbeat Poets
  
• Deadstar Assembly
  
• Fluid Lines
  
• Jake Newton
  
• Manu Chao
  
• Neurosonic
  
• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
  

Bonus List

• Audiology
  
• Blonde Redhead
  
• Confliction
  
• Conjunto Colores
  
• Fanoe
  
• Karsh Kale
  
• Mudvayne
  
• Pecker
  
• Plusminus X
  
• Stereoside
  
• Thanks for Nothing
  
• Through and Throughout
  
• Tremoloco
  
• Urbansnake
  
• Wipers
  
• Zeromancer