I know I come to this discussion a bit late, but I'm checking out a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread! I used to consider myself "eclectic", but after barely recognizing one out of every fifteen artists mentioned, now I've got whole new areas to branch off into. Thanks for that.
For my part, I'm mostly a jazz-head who has a special interest in choral vocal stuff and Brasil's beats. So I'm probably more than a bit out of place here. But of course, there's always more "popular" stuff going on, er... so... I heard a few mentions of M. Ward in here, some Beethoven (sang the 9th symphony a couple months ago, actually! Thrilling stuff! We're doing Faure's Requiem this season.), and even Baby Bird. So anyway, here's a random sampler of what's on my playlist this week.