Scared of Chaka - Masonic Youth (Empty Records, 1996)


from Albuquerque, New Mexico
playing garage rock, punk, pop punk
similar to the marked men, dillinger four

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Tickley Feather - Tickley Feather (Paw Tracks, 2008)


from Virginia
playing electronic, experimental, folk
similar to ariel pink's haunted graffity, excepter, geneva jacuzzi

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Nachtmystium - Worldfall (Mexican Summer, 2008)


from Chicago, IL
playing black metal
similar to wolves in the throne room, leviathan, krallice, xasthur

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Billy Bao - Dialectics of shit (Parts Unknown, 2008)


playing noise rock, punk
similar to sonic youth, flipper, drunkdriver, the stooges, pissed jeans

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Solar Coaster - S/T (Turnbuckle, 1998)


from Winston Salem, North Carolina
playing shoegaze, rock, post-punk
similar to skywave, my bloody valentine, swervedriver, hüsker dü, ride

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Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind (Domino, 2009)


from Brooklyn, NY / Lisbon, Portugal / Washington, D.C
playing experimental, indie pop
similar to panda bear, xiu xiu, grizzly bear, gang gang dance

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Built To Spill - There is no enemy (WEA/Reprise, 2009)



from Boise, ID
playing indie rock
similar to sebadoh, guided by voices, superchunk, pavement

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Robedoor - Raiders (Not Not Fun, 2009)



from Los Angeles, CA
playing drone, noise, experimental
similar to pocahaunted, emeralds, wet hair

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Sex Vid - Tania 7" / Nests 7" / Communal Living 12"


from Olympia, WA
playing hardcore
similar to void, cult ritual

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The Clean - Anthology (Flying Nun, 2003)


from Dunedin, New Zeland
playing post-punk, indie rock
similar to the verlaines, the velvet underground

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The Undertones - Get over you

Lush - Lovelife (4AD, 1996)


from London, England
playing indie pop
similar to pulp, magnapop, elastica, echobelly, blake babies

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Ganglians - Monster head room (Woodsist/Revolver, 2009)


from Sacramento, CA
playing psychedelic, lo-fi
similar to the beach boys, ducktails, julian lynch, woods, real estate

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Smudge - The outdoor type EP (Domino, 1993)


from Sydney, Australia
playing indie pop, powerpop
similar to the lemonheads, dinosaur jr, teenage fanclub, buffalo tom, sneeze

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Crimpshrine - Duc tape soup (Lookout!, 1992)


from Berkley, CA
playing punk, pop-punk
similar to jawbreaker, fifteen, monsula, pinhead gunpowder

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Kleenex & Liliput - Kleenex/Liliput (Kill Rock Stars,1993)


from Zurich, Switzerland
playing post-punk
similar to the slits, the raincoats, girls at our best!, x-ray spex, magazine

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The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket

Talk Talk - Spirit of eden (EMI, 1988)


from London, England
playing new wave, synth pop,
similar to bark psychosis, new order, ultravox, duran duran

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Smoking Popes - Born to quit (Johann's Face Records, 1994)


from Chicago, IL
playing rock, pop-punk
similar to descendents, elvis costello, the smiths

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Cheap Girls - Find me a drink home (Bermuda Mohawk, 2008)


from Lansing, Michigan
playing powerpop, rock
similar to the smoking popes, buffalo tom, superchunk, the lemonheads, smudge

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Meat Puppets - Up on the sun (SST, 1985)


from Phoenix, AZ
playing rock, punk, college rock
similar to the replacements, hüsker dü, minutemen, butthole surfers

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Fecal Matter - Illiteracy Will Prevail (self released demo, 1985)


from Aberdeen, WA
playing grunge, punk,
similar to nirvana, melvins

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No Trend - Teen Love 7" (No Trend Records, 1983)


from Washington DC
playing punk, hardcore, noise
similar to flipper, public image ltd., teenage jesus and the jerks

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Julian Cope - World shut your mouth (Mercury, 1984)


from Deri, South Glamorgan, Wales
playing rock, post-punk
similar to the teardrop explodes, echo & the bunnymen, the soft boys

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Minutemen - The Punch Line (SST, 1981)


from San Pedro, CA
playing punk, hardcore, funk
similar to mission of burma, fIREHOSE, hüsker dü

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The Beach Bullies - We rule the world (Muscle Bound Records, 1980)


from England
playing lo-fi, twee pop, indie pop
similar to shop assistants, the vaselines, the pastels, beat happening

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Guided By Voices - Self-inflicted aerial nostalgia (Halo, 1989)


from Dayton, OH
playing indie pop, lo-fi, rock
similar to pavement, sebadoh, yo la tengo

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Drunkdriver / Mattin - List of profound insecurities (Badmaster, 2009)


from New York
playing hardcore, punk, noise
similar to cult ritual, no trend, sex/vid, billy bao

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The Replacements - Shit, shower and shave (Bootleg, 1989)


from Twin Cities, Minnesota
playing rock, punk
similar to hüsker dü, big star, new york dolls, mission of burma

"A long traded compilation, Shit, Shower & Shave, recorded in 1989, is the sound of the band while on tour with Tom Petty who later, infamously, ripped off Westerberg’s “rebel without a clue” line from the Mats "I'll be you". Tracks 1-12 Bristol Connecticut August 31 1989 – Tracks 13-17 Milwaukee Wisconsin, June 1989 (originally released on Sire’s Inconcerated promo CD) – Tracks 18-23 Mansfield Massachusetts August 28, 1989".

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Another Sunny Day - London weekend (Sarah Records, 1992)


from Penzance, England
playing indie pop, twee pop
similar to the field mice, trembling blue stars, the smiths, the hit parade

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Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy (Go! Discs/Utility, 1983)


from Barking, Essex England
playing folk, rock, pop
similar to the pogues, john wesley harding, pete seger

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Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness (Enemies List, 2008)


from Middletown, Connecticut
playing shoegaze, ambient, drone, experimental, doom
similar to my bloody valentine, xasthur, earth, joy division, alcest

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Flipper - Gone Fishin' (Subterranean Records, 1984)


from San Francisco, CA
playing punk, noise
similar to scratch acid, no trend, big black

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Liturgy - Renihilation (20 Buck Spin Records, 2009)


from Brooklyn, NY
playing black metal
similar to wolves in the throne room, krallice

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Cult Ritual - 2nd EP 7" (Youth Attack, 2008)


from Tampa, FL
playing hardcore
similar to sex/vid, drunkdriver, aerosols, failures

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Rational Animals - Perception becomes reality EP (Feral Kid, 2009)


from Rochester, NY
playing hardcore, punk
similar to born against, black flag's my war, Bl'ast

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No Tolerance - Boston Straight Edge (540 Records, 2009)


from Boston, MA
playing hardcore
similar to 90's NYHC bands

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Shop Assistants - Will anything happen (Overground, 1997)


from Edinburgh, Scotland
playing twee pop, indie pop
similar to dolly mixture, talula gosh, marine girls

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Shop Assistants - I don't want to be friends with you

Silla Eléctrica - Cloaca 7" (Sólo para punks, 2008)


from Madrid, Spain
playing punk

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Real Estate - Fake Blues

Real Estate - Fake Blues from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.

Alex Bleeker & The Freaks - Summer > Epilogue

Alex Bleeker & The Freaks - Summer > Epilogue from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.

Wet Hair-The Beach (2008)


from Iowa City
playing lo-fi, noise
similar to sun araw, ducktails, emeralds

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Little Gold - On the knife (Old Baby, 2009)


from Brooklyn, NY
playing folk, psychedelic
similar to woods, meneguar, little wings

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Nomos - Demo (Self released, 2008)


from Brooklyn, NY
playing hardcore, punk
similar to cult ritual, sex/vid, born against, die kreuzen

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Raw Nerve - Demo (2009)


from Chicago, IL
playing hardcore, punk, noise
similar to cult ritual, slavescene, rational animals

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Pajo - Scream with me (Black Tent Records, 2009)


from Hiding, Ohio
playing lo-fi, folk
similar to aerial m, misfits

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Pygmy Lush - Good Day To Hide (at the Monolith)

Pygmy Lush at the Monolith from James P on Vimeo.

Julian Lynch - Orange You Glad (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2009)


from New Jersey, Wisconsin
playing lo-fi, experimental, psychedelic
similar to real estate, ganglians, pill wonder

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