[Mike Blackwood]

Hmm... well, as for a list of other faves I'd have to say:

Chapterhouse (best of the early-nineties brit shoegazer music)
Possum Dixon (american indie-rockers extrordinaire)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin (greatest brit band of all time <Beatles who?>)
The Mutton Birds (New Zealand's finest songwriter, Don McGlashan)
Furnaceface (my fave Canadian band of all time... true originals)

Mike Blackwood
(yes, the above is rather opinionated, but it's all in fun)