Instrumental bands...

[blueminded]

Brad Mehldau

[ShanghaiOrange]

Booker T and the MGs
Green Onions, motherfuckers!  

Uh...

Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata, motherfuckers!  

Sonic Youth is not an instrumental band.

[Reed Rothchild]

explosions in the sky is the best~

[Pedro]

A silver Mt. Zion along with their other names im not bothering to write out right now.

also, jazz kicks some serious ass....john coltrane and lee morgan being two of my favorites.  get coltrane's blue train to hear the interplay of both of em.

[Dirk]

Mono
Giardini di Miro
godspeed you! black emperor
Boards of Canada

[cron]

i think ...

[Pubrick]

ps. if there are lyrics, it is not instrumental.

[freakerdude]

Medeski, Martin, & Wood are a great funky jazz trio. These guys are young and not the jazz as one might think. They are kind of psychadelic at times while being funky or traditional on other songs. They are not for everyone but I happen to be a big fan of them. Download some of their studio work, Friday Afternoon, Shack Man, or Combustication, as their live stuff gets spacey.

Check out their cool website - MMW

Anyone remember a previous avatar for the one with the white backing?

[Weird. Oh]

Early Day Miners, American football (neither are completely all instrumental)

[Reinhold]

Michael Sokolowski
Tim Reynolds

they do piano and guitar stuff with no lyrics with various artists. they even have some stuff together. all of it is simply fantastic.

[motherfucker]

explosions in the sky can suck a dick, namely mine.

outhud
prefuse 73
savath & savalas

yall fight the power, yall.

[bigperm]

explosions in the sky

exactly. I can not recommend this band enough. Both albums.

[Gamblour.]

explosions in the sky

exactly. I can not recommend this band enough. Both albums.

I've been listening to The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place and I can't get enough of it. I was just bewildered at how a group of people starts to write this kind of music. Such great, airy stuff.

[mogwai]

nme.com/news

Godspeed You! Black Emperor quit over Iraq

Godspeed You Black Emperor have announced their split.

The Montreal post-rock innovators have called it a day, but not for the reasons of 'musical differences' cited by many retiring bands.

Instead, founder Efrin Menuck declared that the band had become untenable due to "an existential freakout" relating to the Iraq war.

Menuck told Drownedinsound: "The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq. For what Godspeed did, it was very difficult for us to work out a way to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on."

He continued: "We could talk to people after the shows, or we could make announcements from the stage, but so much what Godspeed was, was one-way communication, and I had an existential freakout about that, that those tactics aren't valid anymore.

"People didn't need a rock band pointing in the direction of (how the world was at that point). Maybe what they needed is some clumsy words, a presentation that was a little more human."

But Menuck hinted that personal issues between the members also played a part in the decision to split: "On a personal level I now find (Godspeed) to be inappropriate. There's a complicated back story. I reached a point whereby I was no longer willing to contribute to the steering of the ship; it was like, 'Okay now, someone else point the direction, I love you all, but I need to ride shotgun for a while'. I think that bands do have a short shelf life."

Godspeed You Black Emperor formed in 1994 and released six albums and EPs, culminating in 2004's 'Tiny Little Hammers'. Since when they have been on 'indefinite hiatus'.

[Sigur Rós]

nme.com/news

Godspeed You! Black Emperor quit over Iraq

Godspeed You Black Emperor have announced their split.

The Montreal post-rock innovators have called it a day, but not for the reasons of 'musical differences' cited by many retiring bands.

Instead, founder Efrin Menuck declared that the band had become untenable due to "an existential freakout" relating to the Iraq war.

Menuck told Drownedinsound: "The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq. For what Godspeed did, it was very difficult for us to work out a way to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on."

He continued: "We could talk to people after the shows, or we could make announcements from the stage, but so much what Godspeed was, was one-way communication, and I had an existential freakout about that, that those tactics aren't valid anymore.

"People didn't need a rock band pointing in the direction of (how the world was at that point). Maybe what they needed is some clumsy words, a presentation that was a little more human."

But Menuck hinted that personal issues between the members also played a part in the decision to split: "On a personal level I now find (Godspeed) to be inappropriate. There's a complicated back story. I reached a point whereby I was no longer willing to contribute to the steering of the ship; it was like, 'Okay now, someone else point the direction, I love you all, but I need to ride shotgun for a while'. I think that bands do have a short shelf life."

Godspeed You Black Emperor formed in 1994 and released six albums and EPs, culminating in 2004's 'Tiny Little Hammers'. Since when they have been on 'indefinite hiatus'.

This is not true by the way...