Name 3 "contemporary" bands you'd like to see live asap.
 

Not necessarily your three favourite bands, just three bands/artists you'd like to see live asap. and SY don't count. Only "active" bands/artists count, so no hendrix , nirvana etc.etc.
Mines:

Tv on the Radio
Calla
Morkobot

None. All the good bands are dead.

Well, in your world, maybe...

that i have not seen yet-
electrelane
animal collective
maybe TVOTR also....
but definatly lightning bolt again!

Aaron Dilloway
Jay Reatard
High on Fire

Well, living close to NYC i've seen most of my favorite contemporaries (SY, Blonde Redhead, Animal Collective, Lightning Bolt, TVOTR, Vooredoms, Liars, Dinosaur, Deerhoof, Yo La Tengo etc.) and am seeing a lot of other bands i've been waiting to see within the next few months but i guess i'd say:

The Dirty Three
The Arcade Fire, but not in some fucking huge seated theatre
Haino, by himself or in a collaboration

Ummmmmmmm

Interpol (i have seen them before though)
The Dandy Warhols (i have seen them before though)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre (i have seen them a few times before though)

Be Your Own Pet
Awesome Color
Bright Eyes

Broken Social Scene
Liars
Birchville Cat Motel

melt banana
battles
liars

NNCK
Beirut
Yellow Swans

beirut only played in dublin last week. i found out about it exactly 5 minutes after the gig finished.........

Keiji Haino
Boredoms
Mudhoney (those fuckers haven't played in the mid-atlantic region for over 4 years)

Bjork
Fantomas
Sodom

My Brightest Diamond
Blonde Redhead
The Notwist (I've already seen them once)

Bands I haven't seen:

Xiu Xiu
Devendra Banhart
Joanna Newsom

From bands I already have seen:

The Flaming Lips
Animal Collective
Deerhoof

Can I be a prick and go for contemporary compositions? Because I'd like to see Ligeti's clocks and clouds, Wagner's ring [arf] and Penderecki's Threnody.

Regarding the band side of things, I'd quite like to see Fushitsusha (contemporary-ish), AMM (still going I think?) and MCR (no, seriously).

I would've said Faust but I saw them t'other week and they were quite easily one of the best 'rock' bands I've seen locally since Atari Teenage Riot a whole 10 years ago.

I want to see the "new" Miminokoto with Koji Shimura and Junzo Suzuki.
I would also like to see Magma.

Hm.

The Ex
Einstürzende Neubauten
Boris

I suppose.

I'd quite like to see Salamander as well. I should get my arse together in the whole getting famous thing and arrange for them to be my support act across the mid-West. I don't care if you're not from the mid-West, you'll go where I tell you y'bastards.