Seeing that JJJ posted an essay, I thought I might too.
My music library spans over many genres, but I'm very selective with the artists that are in it. I'm also more of an album person than a song person, so everything in my music library belongs to an album. If I only like the single from the artist and not the album I'll delete the artist entirely. Like Lykke Li for example, there are three songs off her first album I really like but I deleted the whole album because some of the others were so lame that I cringed listening to them.
In other words, I have a wide but selective music taste. The last paragraph makes me seem like somewhat of a music nazi :S haha. I currently have 105 artists in my library and 2524 songs. This doesn't seem like many compared to most people's music libraries, but I listen to everything on there. Anyway, onto genres (btw, I don't really care about genres, I'm just using these terms to group music loosely - so no going "indie's not a genre" or "that's not screamo, that's technical-sludge-magnet-metalcore").
Lo-fi/chillwave/dream pop: possibly my favourite group of genres, it's music that I didn't even know existed until just over a year ago (and most of it has only been around that long). People complaining that no good music is being made anymore have to look for it. There's so many good bands out there - I can't stress this enough. Lo-fi is basically just what I'm calling this recent trend of bands to record their songs with primitive equipment or downgrading the sound quality of their music, thus having a lo-fi sound. So many good bands have come out of this scene, like Real Estate (one of their songs was in How I Met Your Mother for anyone who watches that show), Beach Fossils and stuff like that. Chillwave I've only recently gotten into, it's a more electronic-sounding genre, but yeah artists like Toro y Moi and Blackbird Blackbird I'm really digging right now. Dream pop for me are bands like Beach House, Twin Sister and theredsunband - everybody has their own sort of interpretation of what the genre is (thus why I'm hesitant to use genres), like I'm not really into Sigur Ros or 80s stuff or things like that which some people call dream pop. But yeah, those three bands I mentioned and that dream pop-y sort of sound is definitely my favourite type of music.
Indie rock: very broad genre of music, for every good band there are ten I don't like, but yeah, this spans from anything like 80s/90s experimental/alternative stuff like Sonic Youth to some of the indie bands from Canada like Land of Talk and Broken Social Scene to the more aggressive indie like Die! Die! Die! and Warpaint to the dance-y sort of indie like Foals and Twin Shadow.
60s/70s/older rock: 3 of my top 5 most played artists come from the 60s, I love the Jimi Hendrix Experience (especially Axis), The Doors and The Beatles, among other older bands (Led Zeppelin, Skyhooks etc.). I love older music, but again there are some bands generally associated with the ones above which I don't like, for example I'm not a fan of Guns N Roses and Van Halen and stuff like that.
Blues/soul: I really like the old 1930s-60s blues played with just an acoustic guitar, by musicians like Son House and Robert Johnson, but there are other blues musicians that I listen to that have bands behind them, like Muddy Waters. Then there are more new kinds of blues, like The Black Keys (they were my favourite band for like three years way back in years 7-10) or Junior Kimsbrough (really cool stuff, like fuzzy guitar, except he was really old when he recorded them so it's like you're still hearing music from the golden era of blues). Soul I really dig but don't listen to as much as I'd like. Sam and Dave are hands down my favourite soul band.
Folk: the newer style of folk - Grizzly Bear, Lisa Mitchell etc. As much as I wish I did, I don't really like Bob Dylan and other artists like that.
Screamo: I don't have many screamo bands in my music library. It was all I listened to when I was twelve but as I discovered more and more styles of music I grew out of all of those bands. I didn't have any screamo on my iPod for a while until JJJ showed me La Dispute, which were pretty much the type of screamo I'd been searching for for months, and from that I expanded and got into a few more "post-hardcore" bands.
Piano: I like instrumental piano music. I don't know why. Of course, it depends on the type, but I really like this guy called Erroll Garner (I only have an uncle's old album where he covers the songs of Gershwin and Kern) and one album by Eluvium which is entirely piano (most of his other albums are ambient, which I don't enjoy (I do like Grouper, this chick who writes very ambient music, but again just because I like her type of ambient doesn't mean I like all ambient).
Electronic: Don't have much electronic stuff on my iPod, unless you count some of the chillwave bands, but yeah, stuff like Crystal Castles I enjoy.
Math/post rock: Again, different people have different interpretations of math rock but what I like is pretty much described as very angular/stop-starty rhythms, insane drums and intertwining guitar parts. Japan has some really good math rock bands (instrumental, I don't really listen to music with vocals in foreign languages) like Lite, Toe and Mouse on the Keys (which actually combine math-rock with jazz, it's really trippy stuff). Post-rock is just stuff like Explosions In The Sky, mainly instrumental.
Jazz: I listen to a bit of Miles Davis and jazz radio occasionally.
I may have left something out but yeah I'm pretty sure any of you who are still reading are glad that this is the end XD. I don't really like country music or techno music. I like aspects of hip-hop and rap but I have yet to find an artist of this genre I like, there's always something wrong with any of the artists I hear (this is a situation much like how I was looking for a certain type of screamo before I got into La Dispute, except this time I'm looking for rap or hip hop). Uhhh... I think that just about covers it.
