The Big Two: Glassjaw, Thrice. The Main Squeeze(s): Closure in Moscow, The Sleeping, Taking Back Sunday, Dir En Grey, Thursday, Alter Bridge, Asthmaboy, The Mars Volta, Sights & Sounds, The Weeknd, Cage, Counting Crows, Cursive, Dance Gavin Dance, Envy on the Coast, The Fall of Troy, Funeral For a Friend, Enter Shikari, Deftones, Coheed & Cambria, Mansions, Nickel Creek, The Receiving End of Sirens, Steely Dan, System of a Down. Other Important Noisy People: Dillinger , Brand New, Bush, Underoath, Emery, Greeley Estates, La Dispute, Led Zeppelin, Lower Definition, Mindless Self Indulgence, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Pearl Jam, A Perfect Circle, The Dear Hunter, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Saosin, Sayonara Tiger, Sigur Rós, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Time Travels, Tom Waits, Tupac, 311.,