Murder By Death Animals As Leaders The Last of Lucy Modest Mouse Damien Rice Ok Go Tony Danza The Tapdance Extravaganza Hunab Ku Viraemea Scott Pilgram V.S. The World sound track Notorious BIG Beck The Dillinger Escape Plan Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band My own band "Ursula V.S. De Vil" check it out Etc.
Hated... I mean HATED 99.999% of hip hop (save for a few things, US3, early Busta Rhymes, a few Roots thangs) until about a year ago when I stumbled upon Definitive Juxtaposition and Rhymesters thanks to a thread on here about a year ago. As much as I still love metal, it don't get much more inspirational than this, no matter the genre: