best artists in the last 15 years


I am wanting to focus on the newest and up coming artists. Specifically rock,folk and jazz or a mix of them. Who is most likely the most talented, best written and produced
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Hands down, Radiohead. Second, Tom Waits. Third, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Concerning the former, don't know of a veteran group that peaked, i.e. put out three straight hit albums, so late in their career.
Radiohead (survived Britpop).
Red Hot Chili Peppers (seem to get better and better with each album).
The Flaming Lips.
U2 (no better group live, night to night).
Steve Earle (sets the standard for Americana).
Calexico (perfect for that LA to Vegas midnight run).
Coldplay (set the standard for British Indie movement).

Shadorne

Here are some of the better "new" bands I like:

Manu Chao: Latin Punk with Reggae shadings: best live band = to the Clash on his best nights--blew Radiohead off the stage last Friday in SF

Lucinda Williams: nobody does "blue" better than her

Gotan Project: hypnotic mix of electronica and tango from Argentina

Paul Kelly: one of the best singer songwriters out of OZ

Hot Chip: best merging of UK electronica and Prince style funk

Jesus Alemany: best Afro-Cuban jazz

The Raveonettes: Buddy Holly meets Jesus and Mary Chain filtered with Danish cool

Los Lobos: world class musicians who play like they have been together four decades--which they have

Sigur Ros: dream like soundstages that reflect their Icelandic roots

Anthony & the Johnsons: a voice so fragile and emotive

Keren Ann: French torch singer who sounds like a smoke and beer in some distant cafe in Paris

Los Abandoned: multi-cultural punkers who recall X

Tokyo Police Club: one of the best emerging bands from Montreal

Rodrigo & Gabriela: Mexican buskers exiled in Ireland--acoustic like you have never heard it

Cold War Kids: best band out of Orange County--literate in style to Dylan and Waits