I'm looking for some good, new music (to me). Any suggestions for bands, artists, songs, etc...? PLEASE! I don't care what genre/style it is, or how old it is.

go to pandora.com, and enter in your favorite songs/bands/artists

Checkout some Oasis you can never go wrong with Oasis.

Metal/Opera:

Kamelot -- "Ghost Opera" being my favorite
-----> Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9hGHnXPEi4

Nightwish -- The older ones, I think, are better.

I like so many different kinds of music (just music in general) that I could create a HUUUGE list.

-- Kings of Leon
-- Queen
-- ELO
-- Killers
-- Beatles
-- Rolling Stones
-- Eagles
-- Muse
-- Johnny Cash
-- Murder by Death
-- Vampire Weekend
-- John Williams
-- James Horner
-- Alexandre Desplat
-- Patrick Glass

AND SOOO MANY MORE! If you narrow it down to a specific genre, I could probably name better ones.

if your looking for happy fun music that can put a smile on your face, i'm 43 so when feeling the blues.i listen/or watch a cd/ or live dvd of the band CHICAGO its upbeat and positive.

Tran-Siberian Orchestra

100 Demons 36 Crazyfists 7 Angels 7 Plagues A Dozen Furies A Life Once Lost The Acacia Strain Acme Adamantium Adora Aftershock Age of Ruin The Agony Scene All That Remains All Out War Anterrabae As I Lay Dying As Blood Runs Black Atreyu August Burns Red Avenged Sevenfold The Autumn Offering Becoming the Archetype Beloved Beneath the Sky Between the Wars Betzefer Bird Of Ill Omen The Black Dahlia Murder Bleeding Through Blessed By A Broken Heart Bloodlined Calligraphy Bring Me The Horizon Bullet for My Valentine Buried Inside Burn in Silence Burnt by the Sun Burn The Priest Bury Your Dead Cassius Caliban Calico System Cannae Cataract Catherine Cave In Chimaira The Chariot Coalesce Cold War The Concubine Converge Curl Up and Die Darkest Hour Day Of Contempt Deadguy Dead to Fall Death by Stereo Demise of Eros Demon Hunter Despised Icon Destroy the Runner Diecast Dir en grey Drop Dead, Gorgeous Dry Kill Logic E.Town Concrete Earth Crisis Eighteen Visions Embrace Today Embrace the End Enter Shikari The Esoteric Eso-Charis Evergreen Terrace Every Time I Die Eyes of the Betrayer Folly Full Blown Chaos GFK Gizmachi God Forbid Haste the Day Hatebreed Heaven Shall Burn HeavyHeavyLowLow Himsa Hopesfall HORSE the band The Human Abstract I Killed the Prom Queen In This Moment Inhale Exhale Injury Inner Surge Inside Out Integrity Into the Moat It Dies Today The Jonbenet Killswitch Engage Killwhitneydead Lamb of God Liar Light This City Living Sacrifice Look What I Did Love Me Butch Maharahj Manhattan Skyline Manntis Maroon Matthias Misery Signals Most Precious Blood Neaera Nights Like These No Innocent Victim Nora The Number Twelve Looks Like You Odd Project On Broken Wings On The Last Day Overcast Parkway Drive Poison The Well Prayer For Cleansing Protest the Hero Psychostick The Psyke Project Rafflesia Raiz Red Roses For A Blue Lady Scars of Tomorrow See You Next Tuesday Shadows Fall Shai Hulud Shogun Silent Civilian Sinai Beach Skycamefalling Snapcase Spitfire Still Remains Stretch Arm Strong Subconscious Subzero Taken This Runs Through Threat Signal Through the Eyes of the Dead Trivium Twelve Gauge Valentine Twelve Tribes Underoath Undertow Unearth Vanna Walls of Jericho War of Ages The Agony Scene The Warriors Will Haven Winter Solstice With Passion Zao
(try these metalcore bands, they are great, that is if you like metal core)

Apocalyptica
The Beatles
Muse
Deftones
Bushido
Duran Duran
30H!3
Family Force 5
Anberlin
Dead Poetic
Bizet
Project 86
Yanni
Kitaro

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (O Fortuna is a good song...)

Half of the fun in life is discovering new stuff. Here are some ideas to get you started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTUNxC0KWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0-J6EO_XI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfYAh4DHnoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTJ4sPg7BU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZphjMcGeQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOvTj7PfZsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7XC_0ZvEeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_pgh1CctAQ
I have very eclectic tastes and there is little I don't like. Here are some favorites. Hope there is something you like.

some of my faves;

Peeping Tom
God Lives Underwater
Wired All Wrong
Tomahawk
Mr. Bungle
Mike Patton
Dj Shadow
Aphex Twin
Beck
Self

to name a few :)

Here are some very diverse kinds of music I like and I would recommend to you:
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Rock'n Roll with the Modern Lovers
Salif Keita - Mbemba
Sly & Robbie Meet Mad Professor, featuring Dean Fraser - The Dub Revolutionaries
Isaac Hayes - Branded
Les Negresses Vertes - 10 Remixes
Jaap Terlinden - J. S. Bach, The 6 Cello Sonatas
Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Licence To Funk
Dead Can Dance - Aion

Level 42 - "Guaranteed"
Toto - "Tambu"
James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"
Joni Mitchell - "Hissing Of Summer Lawns"
Tom Petty - "Wildflowers"
Neil Young - "Prairie Wind"

The Sugarhill Gang.

I highly recommend Jim Croce if your don't know him.
and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a fun band to listen to.

Beach House

Pandora IS a gr8 site..another is www.lastfm.com you'll pick up a gr8 deal of new ideas there ...plus your favorites.

A Sound Mind

Awesome new band from Melbourne.

http://www.myspace.com/asoundmind


:)

I'll list a few random things from many differnt genres:
rock/metal
nightwish, within temptation, rammstein, einsbrecher, the misfits,
techno
basshunter, i am x-ray,
industrial
angelspit, combichrist, funker vogt,
other
lady gaga, aural vampire, trans siberian orchestra, emilie autumn,

Parkway Drive,Winds of Plague,Slayer,The Black Dahlia Murder,

Mark Lanegan
Sparklehorse
White Lies
Bad Brains
Burial
Manic Street Preachers
Crystal Castles

Decode-Paramore
Bakstreet Boys
Linkin Park
Umbrella(ne version)
Single Ladies-Beyonce
Should I stay or should i go-The Clash
temperature-sean paul
girlfriend-avril lavigne
sk8ter boi-avril lavigne
pressure-paramore
Robert Pattinson

what hair said, +:
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart
Jefferson Airplane (somebody to love, live at woodstock)
The Visitors
very much: ODB (old dirty bastard)
Wu-Tang
Janis Joplin
Charles Manson
Rob Zombie
Jimi Hendrix less radio played stuff (if six was nine, castles made of sand, hear my train a coming acoustic)
Arthur Brown
very much: Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Balkansky feat Theodosii Spassov
Public Enemy
Dub
Rage Against The Machine
Deltron 3030
The Doors
Eskmo
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Faun Fables

Memories - Within Temptation,
The grand conjuration - Opeth,
Windowpane - Opeth,
Fire and rain - James Taylor,
Enjoy the silence - Lacuna Coil,
Hangar 18 - Megadeth,
The hardest part of letting go..sealed with a kiss - Megadeth,
For whom the bell tolls - Metallica,
I'm so sick - Flyleaf
...
Enjoy :)

Rise against.
the academy is

Gentleman Auction House
Dan Deacon
Ratatat
The Jealous Sound
Detektivbyran
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Russian Circles
Xiu Xiu
Mendetz
The Morning Benders
Henry Homesweet
We're From Barcelona
Bibio
The Limousines
Balmorhea
Syd Barrett "Effervescing Elephant" °____°
Broken Records

The Pharcyde
or maybe Sunny Day Real Estate?

Don't know if you'll like them, but here's to hope!