I am interested to see your top musical artists of the current decade. You can put artists who started before the 2010s but restrict yourself to their output released this decade.

Here are mine

TOP 3 GROUPS

1. The National - loved their last 3 albums

2. Radiohead

3. Alabama Shakes

Top 3 Female Artists

1. Pink (My commercial choice: don't love all her songs, but love her voice and spirit)

2. Laura Marling - My artistic choice - criminally obscure in the US

3. Lorde - my newcomer choice - What a start to a career.

Runner up: Janelle may join the list pending on the quality of her new CD.

Top 3 Male Artists

1. Sufjan Stevens - amazing releases - so artistic, prolific and diverse despite limited vocal range.

2. Prince - Love AOA and his concerts with P & M, 3rd Eye Girl, and the Montreux series.

3. Jason Isbell - incredible songwriting - awesome in concert.

The High Llamas

Thundercat

My artists and their studio albums released during this decade which I own:

Groups:

1. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (2010), He Gets Me High EP (2011), Only In Dreams (2011), End Of Daze EP (2012), Too True (2014)

2. The Horrors - Skying (2011), Luminous (2014), V (2017)

3. La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin (2013), Mystére (2016)

Female Artists:

1. Chelsea Wolfe - The Grime And The Glow (2010), Apokalypsis (2011), Pain Is Beauty (2013), Abyss (2015), Hiss Spun (2017)

2. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (2010), Divers (2015)

3. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010), The Electric Lady (2013)

Male Artists (I don't listen to many male solo artists so this was tough):

1. Thundercat - The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (2011), Apocalypse (2013), Drunk (2017)

2. Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015), Harmony Of Difference EP (2017)

3. Jack White - Blunderbuss (2012), Lazaretto (2014), (I haven't heard the new album yet.)

[Edited 4/24/18 18:19pm]

males:

Michael Jackson - Yes, he passed away in the 00s, but his new material was released this decade and did amazingly in the charts. He is also still relevant today.

Prince - Unsurprisingly.

Biggie - Just as Michael Jackson, he passed away prior to the 00s, but he has been sampled during this decade and is still influential.

females (too tough tbh):

Janet Jackson - Because of her artistic legacy.

Beyoncé - One of the top musicians of the current world.

Missy Elliott - An influential hip-hop artist.

groups:

Gipsy.cz - Standing for Roma rights.

Fakné - Standing for queer feminism and migrants' rights.

TLC - A group with a legacy although Left Eye was missing on their last album.

The Birthday Massacre

Dead When I Found Her

Drab Majesty

Heilung

Thelma Plum

Molly Nilsson

Sky Ferreira

Meiko

Luna

Chelsea Wolfe

Lindsey Stirling

Gary Numan

Joe Satriani

YG

the guy that did the theme song for Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

the Weeknd

[Edited 4/24/18 4:27am]

Hmm, this is tough, leaving out Prince:

Groups:
Vampire Weekend
The So So Glos
The Lovely Eggs

Male Solo:
Andrew Bird

Perfume Genius
Kendrick Lamar

Female Solo:
Lady Lamb (the Beekeeper)
St Vincent
Angel Olsen

Shoutout to Fiona Apple and D'Angelo though who both only released one album in the timeframe but they'd both be in my top 5 released since 2010.

[Edited 4/24/18 6:55am]

Presume this is about personal preference ...

Groups:
The XX

Chrvrches

Haim

Have to give Coldplay a shout to, still doing their thing very well.

Females:

Ellie Goudling

Ladyhawke

Madonna

Males:
Childish Gambino

Prince

Ed Sheeran

jaawwnn said:

gandorb said:

Agree with you about Fiona and D'Angelo. They are both so creative but seem to have personal issues that interfere with the amount of material they release.

Well D'Angelo's issues are well documented but I think Fiona just writes slowly and from the heart rather than for the sake of getting out more "product".

jaawwnn said:

sexton said:

I can only list my favorites:

Male Artists:

Van Hunt
Kendrick Lamar
Prince

Honorable mentions: D'Angelo, Thundercat, Anderson .Paak, Raphael Saadiq, Mayer Hawthorne, Bilal, Kamasi Washington, Kaytranada, Childish Gambino, MF Doom

Female Artists:

Janelle Monae
Erykah Badu
Jessie Ware

Honorable Mentions: Jill Scott, Syd, Me'Shell Ndgeocello

Groups

Hiatus Kaiyote
Moonchild
NxWorries

Honorable Mentions: The Stepkids, The Internet, The Foreign Exchange, J*Davey, Tuxedo, A Tribe Called Quest, The Bad Plus, Run The Jewels, The Jack Moves

Groups:

Vampire Weekend

Beach House

Tame Impala

Male:

Miguel

Bruno Mars

Vince Staples

Females:

Janelle

St. Vincent

M.I.A.

RJOrion said:

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gandorb said:

The Hue / Radio Galaxy / HISD (The Hue is all the members of the other 2 groups)
Original 7ven
Soil & PIMP Sessions

Tami Neilson

Esperanza Spalding
Black Dyamond (aka MBD)

Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer
Charlie Wilson
Weird Al

gandorb said:

RJOrion said:

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MotownSubdivision said:

My personal favorites in no particular order: Male 1. Bruno Mars 2. Dam-Funk 3. Childish Gambino Female 1. Ariana Grande 2. Janelle Monae 3. Rihanna (Anti-present) Group 1. Run The Jewels 2. Tuxedo 3. HAIM

Ah, I see that your admiration for Bruno has amplified recently. I wonder why?

Shawy89 said: