Vampire Weekend
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
AIDS Wolf
(most) Captain Beefheart
The Walkmen
Interpol
The Fiery Furnaces
Girl Talk
Matt and Kim
Later Animal Collective
Bjork's Volta
Besnard Lakes
That Joy Division box (look, I like the band and I understand their place, but I don't want to hear 30 shitty live tapes of "She's Lost Control", okay?)
I could keep going.
Everything Beth said, plus:
The Arcade Fire (does everything have to be overly dramatic? Calm down, people.)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
!!!
TV on the Radio
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Hot Hot Heat
Hot Chip
Cold War Kids
Silversun Pickups
Dan Deacon
Franz Ferdinand
Devendra Banhart
Joanna Newsome (I've actually had to leave restaurants, cafes and stores where her albums have been playing)
Kings of Leon
Lavender Diamond
Basically, any band that would be asked to appear in a "Fashion Rocks!" issue of Vogue or something like that. I suppose this goes into the whole "why I dislike hipsters" thing: the answer is because I hate anything having to do with fashion. How good can your music be if you're so busy artfully ripping up your fishnet stockings or getting full-sleeve tattoos?