By no means is this a completely comprehensive list, but what it does represent are artists that I have returned to again and again for whatever reason. There are so many other pieces of music that I've listened to, including many local and indie artists that are not on this list. - AJ

Air / Aerosmith / Alice in Chains / Andrew Bird / Ani DiFranco / Animal Collective / B-52's / Barry Douglas / Beach Boys / The Beatles / Beck / Bee Gees / Beethoven / Béla Fleck / Belle and Sebastian / Ben Gibbard / Bert Jansch / Beth Orton / Big Ass Truck / Big Audio Dynamite / Big Country / Billie Holiday / Billy Idol / Billy Joel / Björk / The Black Angels / The Black Keys / Blonde Redhead / Blondie / Blue Öyster Cult / Blur / Bob Dylan / Bob Seger / Bob Mould / Bon Iver / Boston / Brazilian Girls / Brick / Bruce Springsteen / Buddy Holly / The Byrds / CAKE / Calexico / The Cars / Catherine Wheel / Chaka Khan / Cheap Trick / Chopin / Chris Thile / Chuck Berry / The Church / Cocteau Twins / Concrete Blonde / Counting Crows / Cowboy Junkies / Cracker / Creedence Clearwater Revival / The Cure / Damien Rice / Daniil Trifonov / The Darling Buds / Daryl Hall & John Oates / David Bowie / David Gray / David Grisman / Death Cab for Cutie / Dee-Lite / Depeche Mode / DEVO / Diana Krall / Dire Straits / Don Henley / Donna Summer / Donovan / The Doobie Brothers / The Doors / Duran Duran / Dvořák / Eagles / Earth, Wind & Fire / Echo & The Bunnymen / Edgar Winter / Edie Brickell / Elliot Smith / Elton John / Elvis Costello / Elvis Presley / Erik Satie / Eurythmics / The Everly Brothers / Faith No More / The Flaming Lips / Fleetwood Mac / Frank Black / Frank Zappa / Genesis / George Harrison / Gomez / Gorillaz / Grant Lee Buffalo / Grateful Dead / Grizzly Bear / Guided By Voices / Guns N' Roses / Heart / Helen Money / Holst / Indigo Girls / Interpol / INXS / Iron & Wine / Ivan Moravec / Jackson 5 / James / Jamiroquai / Jane's Addiction / Jerry Garcia / Jethro Tull / Jimi Hendrix / Joe Jackson / Joe Satriani / John Coltrane / John Lennon / John Mellencamp / John Scofield / Johnny Cash / Joni Mitchell / José González / Journey / Julian Bream / Julian Lennon / k.d. lang / Keane / King Crimson / King Missle / Kings of Convenience / The Kinks / The La's / Led Zeppelin / Lenny Kravitz / Leo Kottke / Live / Living Colour / Lou Reed / M83 / The Magnetic Fields / Manfred Mann's Earth Band / Marcel Dadi / The Mars Volta / Matthew Sweet / Maurizio Pollini / Mazzy Star / Me You Us Them / Medeski Martin & Wood / Mew / Michael Hedges / Michael Jackon / Michael Manring / Minus the Bear / Morphine / Muse / Mussorgsky / Nada Surf / Neil Young / Nickel Creek / Nine Inch Nails / Nirvana / Paco De Lucia / Pat Metheny / Patti Smith / Paul Mc Cartney / Paul Simon / Pedro The Lion / Peter Frampton / Peter Gabriel / Phish / Pink Floyd / Pixies / PJ Harvey / Poi Dog Pondering / The Police / Pretenders / Primus / Prince / Prokofiev / Public Image Ltd. / Queen / R.E.M. / The Raconteurs / Radiohead / Robert Fripp / Robert Plant / The Rolling Stones / Roxy Music / Röyksopp / Rush / Sinéad O'Connor / Screaming Trees / Seal / Sebadoh / Sheryl Crow / Shocking Blue / Sigur Rós / Simon & Garfunkel / Simple Minds / Siouxsie & The Banshees / The Smithereens / The Smiths / Sonic Youth / Spelunkers / Spoon / Steely Dan / Sting / The Stone Roses / Sufjan Stevens / Sugar / The Sugarcubes / The Sundays / Supertramp / System of a Down / T. Rex / Talking Heads / Tchaikovsky / They Might Be Giants / Three Merry Widows / Tom Petty / Tommy Emmanuel / Tori Amos / Traveling Wilburys / Trey Anastasio / U2 / Van Halen / The Velvet Underground / Weather Report / Weezer / Whale / White Light Riot / The White Stripes / The Who / Wilco / Yes / Yo-Yo Ma / XTC / et cetera...   aj logo