Winter - Into Darkness

Genre: Doom/Death Metal
Year: 1990
About: Metal season, metal band.
Sounds Like: diSEMBOWLMENT, Autopsy, Skepticism, Thergothon
Experience

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops

Genre: Sludge/Stoner/Doom
Year: 1994
About: Hailed as one of the pioneering albums of the Doom Sludge movement, this is a must have classic for any fan of true metal. Ear ripping vocals and heavy ass riffs comprise a brutal journey to your audible subconscious.
Sounds Like: Agents of Oblivion, Eyehategod, Soilent Green, Electric Wizard
Experience

Vomitory - Raped in Their Own Blood

Genre: Death
Year: 1996
About: Classic, HEAVY old school swedish death metal. The vocals are fucking dirty and evil. The riffs pound hard against the double bass. This is raw death metal played at its best with intensity. Don't turn your lights off, bang your head.
Sounds Like: Grave, Dismember, Malevolent Creation, Fleshcrawl
Experience

Bedhead - WhatFunLifeWas

Genre: Indie, Slowcore
Year: 1994
About: One of the forerunners of the so-called "Slowcore" genre, very soothing and shoegaze-like tunes than any fan of indie rock can dig.
Sounds Like: The New Year, Codeine, Seam, Silkworm
Experience

Yo La Tengo Discography

Genre: Indie, Noise/Dream Pop, Experimental
About: Simply one of the greatest bands ever. They have an unmatched sound and are consistent with releasing amazing albums from the 80's to present time. Truly beautiful music through and through, honestly one can not have a say in what Indie rock is til they've experienced the Tengo.
Sounds Like: Pavement, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, Galaxie 500, Guided By Voices
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ride the Tiger (1986)

Experience

New Wave Hot Dog (1987)

Experience

President Yo La Tengo (1989)

Experience

Fakebook (1990)

Experience

May I Sing With Me (1992)

Experience

Painful (1993)

Experience

Electr-O-Pura (1995)

Experience

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)

Experience

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)

Experience

Nuclear War (2002)

Experience

The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (2002)

Experience

Today is the Day EP (2003)

Experience

Summer Sun (2003)

Experience

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)

Experience

Popular Songs (2009)

Experience

Boredoms - Pop Tatari

Genre: Noise, Experimental
Year: 1992
About: This might just be one of the most adventurous albums i've ever heard, and that's saying something for this Japanese group. It has a punk energy to it. I warn you that this is a thoughtfully written, delightfully disgusting mass of chaos that I can totally dig. If you're looking for something new to add to your mix, maybe with a few wild shrieks thrown in, try this out. This one's a trip; a maniacal trip through your conciousness.
Sounds Like: OOIOO, Melt-Banana, Ruins, Afrirampo
Experience

Stars of the Lid Discography

Genre: Ambient, Drone
About: "Stars of the Lid is a duo specializing in drone-based ambient music. They list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Gorecki, as well as Talk Talk (both bands have tracks named "Taphead"), post-rock artists Labradford, and ambient innovator Brian Eno. Their songs are largely beatless soundscapes, composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs. Their sound has been described as "divine, classical drone without the tedious intrusion of drums or vocals"."
Sounds Like: The Dead Texan, Brian McBride, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Oren Ambarchi, Aix Em Klemm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music for Nitrous Oxide (1995)

Experience

Gravitational Pull vs. The Desire for an Aquatic Life (1996)

Experience

The Ballasted Orchestra (1997)

Experience

Per Aspera Ad Astra (1998)

Experience

Avec Laudenum (1999)

Experience

The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)

Experience (Disc 1)
Experience (Disc 2)

And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)

Experience

Carte-de-Visite (2007)

Experience

Do Make Say Think Partial Discography

Genre: Post Rock
About: In this guy's opinion, one of the most creative and influential bands in the post rock genre. "Do Make Say Think is a Canadian instrumental post-rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Their music combines jazz style drums, distorted guitars and wind instruments as well as a prominent use of the bass guitar."
Sounds Like: Fly Pan Am, Tortoise, A Silver Mt. Zion, Valley of the Giants, Set Fire to Flames
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do Make Say Think (1998)

Experience

Goodbye Enemy Airship, the Landlord is Dead (2000)

Experience

& Yet & Yet (2002)

Experience

You, You're a History in Rust (2007)

Experience

Other Truths (2009)

Experience

Cryptopsy - None So Vile

Genre: Death Metal
Year: 1995
About: Heavy shiiiiiiiiiit. "The album now has a considerable reputation within the death metal genre, many credit it with revitalizing the genre during the mid-90s and adding an unprecedented influence on the technical death metal and brutal death metal subgenres."
Sounds Like: Suffocation, Gorguts, Immolation, Incantation
Experience

Melvins - The Maggot

Genre: Sludge
Year: 1999
About: This band really showed their teeth with this release, the first part of a trilogy. The consensus is that this is their heaviest offering to date, and I'm not disagreeing! The monster riffage on this album will knock you on your ass. This is heavy and drags along at a grooving pace, just like great SLUDGE should be. Murky.
Sounds Like: Big Business, Harvey Milk, Boris, Sleep
Experience

Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus

Genre: Indie Rap, Hip-hop
Year: 1997
About: Being Company Flow's only official LP, it is also one of the pioneering albums of the Indie Rap movement. Containing abstract lyrics and unusual beats, it is also the launching point of El-P's career. This is one of the most independent rap albums out there, as well as being a huge influence on almost every alternative rapper alive today.
Sounds Like: Aesop Rock, Sage Francis, Cannibal Ox, Atmosphere
Experience

Death Cab for Cutie Discography

Genre: Indie
About: Originally the sole project of Ben Gibbard, the group's name was taken from a song performed by the Bonzo Dog Band in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film. Gibbard expanded the band after the success of the first demo into a four piece outfit. Gibbard's poetic lyrics and straightforward songwriting paint vast images in your mind's eye. Simple but beautiful lyrics include "Drinking champagne from a paper cup is never quite the same" from Champagne from a Paper Cup. The songs are played with a passion and you can feel it. The songs often tell a story, albeit melancholy and heartbreaking at times, that's easily related to by the average human being.
Sounds Like: The Postal Service, The Shins, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You Can Play These Songs with Chords Demo (1997)

Experience

Something About Airplanes (1998)

Experience

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)

Experience

The Forbidden Love EP (2000)

Experience

The Photo Album (2001)

Experience

The Stability EP (2002)

Experience

Transatlanticism (2003)

Experience

Studio X Sessions EP (2004)

Experience

The John Byrd EP (2005)

Experience

Plans (2005)

Experience

Narrow Stairs (2008)

Experience

The Open Door EP (2009)

Experience