What musicians do you think more people need to know about?

My answer is hands down Josh Ritter. I'm a sucker for well-written, meaningful lyrics and this guy is easily one of the best in the business. He puts on a hell of a live show too. How about the rest of the GB community?

Tame Impala.

Garbage, their music is diverse and very powerful.

Love these guys...

The Generationals

Listen to more Tuvan rock, It's awesome.

Hanggai:

Yat-Kha:

Sadly, i fear this type of music is on the brink of being forgotten.

Obviously.

@sionweeks said:

Tame Impala.

This band is awesome.

Clutch

Hip Hop Violin

Fear Factory, deserve more than they get

Agalloch.

School Food Punishment.

It's a shame that they went on hiatus.

This musician creates music that not everyone will enjoy. But I doubt anyone would say what he does isn't incredibly impressive.

Devin Townsend.

Coheed and Cambria (beyond Welcome Home)

Circa Survive

Fall of Troy (now broken up sadly)

Dillinger Escape Plan

Protest the Hero

Torche

Nero

I could go on...

FLiP

@Bogitt Come on man, those are relatively famous in the UK. But yeah, good music :)

Now THIS, this is unjustly unknown: Wisp, a seriously classy IDM/ambient electronica artist:

@VinceNotVance: Wow, that's actually legitimately fantastic. Thanks!

Poets of The Fall makes some amazing music, known from Remedy Games. I thinkt they deserve some more attention and praise

And another amazing song

Cloud Nothings

Murder By Death

elvis

EDIT: Dang near every band mentioned in here is awful. Better left unknown.

Gavin Castleton, without a doubt. He is one of my biggest influences as a musician, but almost no-one knows him

Amina http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BYIDUvAtiGc

@Dagbiker: Even though the music she is representing I don't care for, that is talent.

@Harkat:

True, but OP is from America figured he might not of heard of them.

Wow, like that bit of music too - Nice!

Clutch. I don't get how they're not totally huge as they have been around for for over 20 years and have a giant following but somehow they've never really broke through to that really huge audience. The closest thing they've had to a "hit" is their track "Electric Worry" which some of you may recognize from the Left 4 Dead 2 ads a few years back, though it's not terribly representative of their style which has varied quite a bit throughout their career. They've also had their songs appear on TV shows like The Walking Dead and Sons of Anarchy, Here's a few tracks from throughout their career but believe me when I say that these barely scratch the surface.

Nurses

Daniel Yount, he's a great composer:

Always and forever Aidan Knight

@BulletproofMonk said:

Devin Townsend.

Devin Townsend is the greatest musician on the planet.

Troof!!

The best.

Just recently discovered Baroness via the Twitter feed of David Goldfarb, the executive producer for BF3's SP campaign. I love the instrumental stuff they do, the 'singing' bits are an aquired taste, but I do warm to their peculiar interplay somewhat. T'is my favorite song of theirs thus far. Every now and then I delve into their more aggressive materials. Outstanding muscians, and a very 'genre' singer. Unique, and awesome.

Everything Josh Homme is associated with.

I never miss a chance to plug the Horslips.

Jerry Cantrell

Enter Shikari

The messages and ideals behind their songs resonates with me well, especially songs like System... ...Meltdown and Stalemate.

Most people I show them to hate them though as they say they're too dubsteppy or too hardcore. I love them because of the balance of both genres.

Dead by April. It is a Swedish metal band that are really awesome.

Big Black. Although they were pretty influential on future punk, noise and industrial bands, a lot of people have never heard of them.

Also, there's this French post/black metal shoegaze-y group called Alcest, and their sound is both unique and beautiful. More people need to know about them.

David Johansen from the New York Dolls is pretty good, and they don't really get much credit for their recent work and some of his solo stuff;

Always enjoyed the music of Johnny Flynn, he seemed to miss out on the neo-folk revival (maybe to his benefit considering it includes acts like laura marling / mumford and sons)

And Death, its insane to think this was from 1974

Threads like these were a hell of a lot more interesting prior to the existence of YouTube.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe

Skip to 1:28 and watch this lady shred.

Slug from Atmosphere is one of my all-time favorite lyricists. It's rare when a rapper can kick ass in a freestyle battle and then sit down and write intricate rhymes rich with symbolism and storytelling. It's never pretentious, though, which is what makes the music so perfect to me.

Nobue Uematsu should become WAY more famous than he already is IMO.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. That man and his songwriting...*sigh*