Steve Albini

Steve Albini

Steven Frank Albini is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman, and Flour, and is currently a member of Shellac...

 is an influential musician and audio engineer whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music. Most of his projects from 1997 onwards were recorded at the Electrical Audio

Electrical Audio

Electrical Audio is a recording facility founded in Chicago, Illinois by musician and recording engineer Steve Albini in 1997. Hundreds of independent music projects have been recorded there....

 studios in Chicago.

The list is in chronological order by date of release. It is incomplete.

Big Black, 1982–1987

• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Lungs
  Lungs (EP)
  Lungs is the first EP by American Post-hardcore band Big Black. It was released in December 1982 on Ruthless Records, and was reissued in 1992 on Touch & Go Records...
  
  EP – (1982)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Bulldozer
  Bulldozer (EP)
  Bulldozer is the second EP by Chicago Post-Hardcore band Big Black, released in 1983. It was their first release to feature an actual band performing, including Pat Byrne from Urge Overkill playing drums on some of the songs...
  
  EP – (1983)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Racer-X
  Racer-X
  Racer-X is the third EP by American Post-Hardcore band Big Black. It was released by Homestead Records in 1984 and reissued by Touch & Go Records in 1992.-Track listing:#"Racer-X"#"Shotgun"#"The Ugly American"#"Deep Six"#"Sleep!"...
  
  EP  – (1984)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – The Hammer Party
  The Hammer Party
  -Track listing:#"Steelworker" 1#"Live in a Hole" 1#"Dead Billy" 1#"I Can Be Killed" 1#"Crack" 1#"RIP" 1#"Cables" 2#"Pigeon Kill" 2#"I'm a Mess" 2#"Texas" 2#"Seth" 2#"Jump the Climb" 2#"Racer X" 3#"Shotgun" 3#"The Ugly American" 3#"Deep Six" 3...
  
   – (1985)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Il Duce/Big Money – 7” (1986)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Atomizer
  Atomizer (album)
  Atomizer is a 1986 album by the American noise rock group Big Black. It is their debut album as all previous releases are EPs. The LP is accompanied by liner notes that explain the stories behind many of the songs...
  
   – (1986)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Rema Rema – (1984)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Heartbeat
  Heartbeat (Big Black single)
  "Heartbeat" is a song written by Colin Newman and originally recorded and released in 1978 by the English rock band Wire on their second album Chairs Missing. Guest Kate Lukas played flute on the track....
  
   – 7" (1987)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Headache
  Headache (EP)
  Headache is a 1987 EP by Chicago post-hardcore band Big Black. The record generated some controversy due to a cover photograph of a shotgun suicide victim whose head was split in half; it only appeared on a very limited edition of the record and was later replaced with a drawing by Savage Pencil...
  
   – EP (1987)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
  The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
  - Track listing :#"Jordan, Minnesota" - 3:20#"Passing Complexion" - 3:04#"Big Money" - 2:29#"Kerosene" - 6:05#"Bad Houses" - 3:09#"Fists of Love" - 4:21#"Stinking Drunk" - 3:27...
  
   – 1994
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – He's a Whore/The Model – 7"
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album – LP Touch and Go Records
  Touch and Go Records
  Touch and Go Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.After its genesis as a hand-made fanzine in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s alternative and underground rock scenes, Touch & Go carved out a reputation for releasing adventurous...
  
   (1987)

(aka Talk About Fucking) (Blast First! UK)

• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Songs About Fucking
  Songs About Fucking
  Songs About Fucking is the second and final album by the noise rock band Big Black. It placed 54th on Pitchfork Media's 'Top 100 Albums of the 1980s'. Included are covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" and Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore".-Production:...
  
   – (1987)
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
   – Pigpile
  Pigpile
  -Track listing:# "Fists of Love" – 4:14# "L Dopa" – 1:49# "Passing Complexion" – 3:06# "Dead Billy" – 5:12# "Cables" – 3:18# "Bad Penny" – 3:03# "Pavement Saw" – 2:56# "Kerosene" – 6:38# "Steelworker" – 4:52# "Pigeon Kill" – 2:24...
  
   – MC/CD/VHS (1987, released 1992)

1985–1989

• Dark Arts – A Long Way from Brigadoon (1985) (released on Albini's Ruthless Records (Chicago)
  Ruthless Records (Chicago)
  Ruthless Records was the name of a Chicago punk record label. Founded in 1981 by the Effigies, it was not a real business, but a name used by Chicago and Minneapolis punk bands from 1981 to 1990: Big Black, the Effigies, End Result, Naked Raygun, Rifle Sport and Urge Overkill...
  
   label)
• End Result – Ward 12" E.P. (1985) (released on Albini's Ruthless Records (Chicago)
  Ruthless Records (Chicago)
  Ruthless Records was the name of a Chicago punk record label. Founded in 1981 by the Effigies, it was not a real business, but a name used by Chicago and Minneapolis punk bands from 1981 to 1990: Big Black, the Effigies, End Result, Naked Raygun, Rifle Sport and Urge Overkill...
  
   label)
• Urge Overkill
  Urge Overkill
  Urge Overkill is an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, United States, consisting of Nash Kato , and Eddie "King" Roeser . Their cover of Neil Diamond's song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" appeared prominently in the movie Pulp Fiction, and became a hit in 1994...
  
   – Strange, I... (1986) (credited as "Li'l Weed")
• Blatant Dissent – Hold the Fat LP, Dreams 7" (1986) (credited as "Robert Earl Hughes")
• Slint
  Slint
  Slint was an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan , David Pajo , Britt Walford , Todd Brashear and Ethan Buckler...
  
   – Tweez (1987) (credited as "some fuckin' derd niffer") http://www.southern.com/southern/band/SLINT/19132
• Pixies – Surfer Rosa
  Surfer Rosa
  Like Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa displays a mix of musical styles; pop guitar songs such as "Broken Face", "Break My Body", and "Brick Is Red" are featured alongside slower, more melodic tracks exemplified by "Where Is My Mind?". The album includes heavier material, and prominently features the...
  
  (1987)
• Poster Children
  Poster Children
  Poster Children are an indie rock band formed at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1987. They have issued eleven studio albums. Known for their strong DIY ethic, the band members continue to drive their own tour bus, create their own artwork and T-shirt designs, and operate their...
  
   – Flower Plower
  Flower Plower
  Flower Plower is Poster Children's debut album, recorded during 1988-89. It was first released on vinyl by the Limited Potential label in 1989, and issued on CD in 1991 by Frontier Records...
  
  (1989) (first four songs; others recorded by Iain Burgess)
• UrgeOverKilldozer a/k/a Kill and Kill Again - Evil Womyn (1988) (collaboration between Killdozer and Urge Overkill released on Tinnitus Records' Mondo Stereo compilation)
• Urge Overkill
  Urge Overkill
  Urge Overkill is an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, United States, consisting of Nash Kato , and Eddie "King" Roeser . Their cover of Neil Diamond's song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" appeared prominently in the movie Pulp Fiction, and became a hit in 1994...
  
   – Jesus Urge Superstar (1988)
• The Membranes
  The Membranes
  The Membranes were a post-punk band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1977, the initial line-up being John Robb , Mark Tilton , Martin Critchley and Martin Kelly . Critchley soon left, with Robb and Tilton taking on vocals, and Kelly moving to keyboards, with "Coofy Sid" taking over on drums...
  
   – Kiss Ass...Godhead! (1987)
• Bitch Magnet
  Bitch Magnet
  Bitch Magnet was a post-hardcore band during the late 1980s and early 1990s who formed at Oberlin College in Ohio and later moved to North Carolina. They released their first record in 1988. All of the band's full-length albums were released on Communion Records in the US; they were also signed to...
  
   – Star Booty (1988) (mix only but credited as producer)
• Tar
  Tar (band)
  Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The precursor to Tar was a hardcore punk outfit called Blatant Dissent, which formed in DeKalb, Illinois where singer/guitarist John Mohr and drummer Mike Greenlees were attending Northern Illinois University...
  
   – Play to Win 7" (1988)
• Rapeman
  Rapeman
  Rapeman was an American post-hardcore/noise rock group founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989. It consisted of Steve Albini on guitar and vocals, David Wm. Sims on bass, and Rey Washam on drums.-History:In an interview, Albini reported that "'Rapeman' is .....
  
   – Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
  Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
  Two Nuns and A Pack Mule is the first and only LP by the Chicago noise rock band Rapeman. The CD re-release contains the Budd in its entirety.-Track listing:All songs written by Rapeman, except where noted...
  
  (1988)
• Tar
  Tar (band)
  Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The precursor to Tar was a hardcore punk outfit called Blatant Dissent, which formed in DeKalb, Illinois where singer/guitarist John Mohr and drummer Mike Greenlees were attending Northern Illinois University...
  
   – Handsome EP (1989)
• Ut
  Ut (band)
  Ut originated from New York City's downtown No Wave scene in December 1978. The inheritors of the fertile collision between rock, free jazz and the avant garde that first manifested itself in the Velvet Underground, Ut soon became a serious force within the New York music scene.- History :Ut's...
  
   – Griller (1989)
• The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial...
  
   – Pure (1989)
• Sixteen Tons – 4 Songs (1989)
• Wreck
  Wreck (band)
  Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to join The Waco Brothers.-History:...
  
   – Wreck 12" EP (1989)
• Bliss – Grafted to an elbow LP (1989)
• Pussy Galore
  Pussy Galore (band)
  Pussy Galore was an American garage rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985. They had a constantly fluid line-up until their demise in 1990. Like many garage rock outfits, they were dogged by substance abuse problems...
  
   – Dial M for Motherfucker
  Dial M for Motherfucker
  Dial 'M' for Motherfucker is an album by the New York City garage punk band Pussy Galore, released in 1989 by Caroline Records. The song Kicked Out is played in an Episode of House, "Games", when Gregory House plays it to annoy Wilson and induce a seizure in a patient.-Track listing:#Understand...
  
  (1989)

1990

• Breeders – Pod (1990)
• Boss Hog
  Boss Hog
  Boss Hog is an American punk blues band including the husband and wife duo of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez along with Jens Jurgensen , Hollis Queens and Mark Boyce...
  
   – Cold Hands (1990)
• Flour
  Flour (band)
  Flour is the nickname of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s. He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself...
  
   – Luv 713 (1990)
• Sixteen Tons – Headshot (1990)
• The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial...
  
   – Head (1990)
• Tad
  Tad (band)
  Tad was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington led by Tad Doyle. Among the first of the many bands which came out of Seattle in the grunge era, Tad was notable for the fact that its music had a noticeable 1970s metal influence, rather than the punk which influenced most other grunge bands...
  
   – Salt Lick/God's Balls
  Salt Lick/God's Balls
  Salt Lick/God's Balls is a compilation album by the American grunge band TAD, consisting of the EP Salt Lick and selected tracks from the album God's Balls, both of which had previously been released in the United States only on vinyl...
  
  (1990)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Thank Your Lucky Stars (1990) (co-produced with William Bennett)
• Wreck
  Wreck (band)
  Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to join The Waco Brothers.-History:...
  
   – Soul Train
  Soul Train
  Soul Train is an American musical variety show that aired in syndication from October 1971 to March 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists have also appeared.As a nod to Soul Trains...
  
  (1990)
• Pigface
  Pigface
  Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.-History:Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video. For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought...
  
   – Gub
  Gub
  Gub is the second release and first LP by Pigface. It is notable for featuring contributions from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails before Nine Inch Nails achieved mainstream success....
  
  (1990) (Albini also plays guitar, bass, and oscillator on some tracks)
• Hum
  Hum (band)
  Hum is a post-hardcore band from Champaign, Illinois. They are best known for their 1995 radio hit "Stars." Hum has not been consistently active as a recording or touring group since 2000.-Founding and early recordings:...
  
   – Is Like Kissing an Angel (She Said) demo tape

1991

• Cath Carroll
  Cath Carroll
  Cath Carroll is a British musician and music journalist.-Career:Carroll was raised in Swansea, then Manchester. She played guitar in post-punk band Property of... in 1978, which also included former Warsaw drummer Tony Tabac. In 1979 she formed the band Glass Animals with her friend Liz Naylor...
  
   – England Made Me (1991)
• Cheer-Accident
  Cheer-Accident
  Cheer-Accident is an American indie rock ensemble headed by Thymme Jones. Jones took the name of the band from a Hallmark Cards shopping display, and first formed the group in 1981 with singer Jim Drummond and drummer Mike Greenlees.-Biography:...
  
   – Dumb Ask (1991)
• Didjits – Full Nelson Reilly (1991) (credited as Reggie Stiggs)
• Poster Children
  Poster Children
  Poster Children are an indie rock band formed at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1987. They have issued eleven studio albums. Known for their strong DIY ethic, the band members continue to drive their own tour bus, create their own artwork and T-shirt designs, and operate their...
  
   – Daisychain Reaction
  Daisychain Reaction
  Daisychain Reaction is Poster Children's second album. It was originally released in 1991 on Twin/Tone Records, and reissued by Sire/Reprise in 1992. It is currently out of print...
  
  (1991)
• Sandy Duncan's Eye – Sandy Duncan's Eye (1991)
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
   – Total Castration
  Total Castration
  Total Castration is a 1991 album by Zeni Geva. It is produced by Zeni Geva and Steve Albini.- Track listing :# "I Want You" - 4:44# "Total Castration" - 3:28# "Bigman Death" - 3:42# "Shoot Me With Your Blood" - 7:16# "Godflesh" - 4:40...
  
  (1991)
• The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four to more varied forms...
  
   – Seamonsters
  Seamonsters
  Seamonsters is the third studio album by English indie band The Wedding Present. It was recorded in ten days in 1991 by American producer Steve Albini at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota...
  
  (1991)
• The Mark of Cain – Incoming (1991)
• The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial...
  
   – Goat
  Goat (album)
  -External links:*...
  
  (1991)
• Chris Connelly – Whiplash Boychild (1991) (credited as assistant engineer; also contributed some guitar)
• Superchunk
  Superchunk
  Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s...
  
   – No Pocky For Kitty
  No Pocky for Kitty
  No Pocky for Kitty is Superchunk's second studio album. It was recorded April 21-23, 1991, at the Chicago Recording Company by Steve Albini and released on Matador Records in 1991....
  
  (1991) (uncredited)
• Wreck
  Wreck (band)
  Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to join The Waco Brothers.-History:...
  
   – House of Boris (1991)
• Tar
  Tar (band)
  Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The precursor to Tar was a hardcore punk outfit called Blatant Dissent, which formed in DeKalb, Illinois where singer/guitarist John Mohr and drummer Mike Greenlees were attending Northern Illinois University...
  
   – Jackson LP (1991)
• Volcano Suns
  Volcano Suns
  Volcano Suns was an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts formed by Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott in 1984.-History:...
  
   – Career in Rock
  Career in Rock
  Career in Rock is the final studio album from the band Volcano Suns, released on 17 May 1991 on Quarterstick Records..- Track listing :# "Blue Rib"# "Binds That Tie"# "Mystery Date"# "Silly Misunderstanding"# "Total Eclipse"# "Horrorscope"...
  
  (1991)
• Urge Overkill
  Urge Overkill
  Urge Overkill is an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, United States, consisting of Nash Kato , and Eddie "King" Roeser . Their cover of Neil Diamond's song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" appeared prominently in the movie Pulp Fiction, and became a hit in 1994...
  
   – The Supersonic Storybook
  The Supersonic Storybook
  -Track listing:All songs written by Nash Kato and Eddie Roeser, except where noted.#"The Kids Are Insane"#"The Candidate"#"Today Is Blackie's Birthday"#"Emmaline" #"Bionic Revolution"#"What is Artane?"#"Vacation in Tokyo"...
  
  (1991)

1992

• Things That Fall Down – Disbelief (1992)
• Various Artists – Follow Our Trax, Vol. 8: Another Disc, Another Planet (1992)
• Bewitched – Harshing My Mellow (1992)
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based out of New York City, New York. The band consists of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals, guitar and theremin...
  
   – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1992)
• The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial...
  
   – Liar
  Liar (The Jesus Lizard album)
  Liar is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band The Jesus Lizard released in 1992 by Touch and Go Records. The album is considered to be among the band's best work, and according to Mark Demling of Allmusic "Liar isn't quite the wildest or weirdest album the Jesus Lizard ever...
  
  (1992) (uncredited)
• Helmet
  Helmet (band)
  Helmet is an alternative metal band from New York City formed in 1989. Founded by vocalist and lead guitarist Page Hamilton, Helmet has had numerous lineup changes, and Hamilton has been the only constant member....
  
   – Meantime (1992) (song "In The Meantime" recorded by Albini; mixed by Andy Wallace
  Andy Wallace (producer)
  Andy Wallace is a Grammy Award-winning music studio engineer with a long track record of successful productions, beginning with the 1986 production of the Run-DMC/Aerosmith collaboration on "Walk This Way" with Rick Rubin...
  
  )
• Mule
  Mule (band)
  Mule was an American punk blues band from Michigan, active in the early 1990s. Formed from the ashes of Wig and Laughing Hyenas, their music incorporated elements of hardcore punk, blues-rock, and alternative country.-History:...
  
   – "Mule" (1992)
• Failure
  Failure (band)
  Failure was an American rock band that was active from 1990 to 1997, during which they recorded and released three critically acclaimed albums...
  
   – Comfort
  Comfort (album)
  Comfort is the first studio album by the American rock band Failure.-Track listing:All tracks by Ken Andrews#"Submission" – 3:23#"Macaque" – 4:59#"Something" – 2:53#"Screen Man" – 6:15#"Swallow" – 2:31#"Muffled Snaps" – 3:55#"Kindred" – 2:21...
  
  (1992)
• Braindamage – Signal de Revolta (1992)
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
   – Nai-Ha (1992)
• Murder, Inc.
  Murder, Inc. (band)
  Murder, Inc. was a short-lived industrial metal supergroup formed in 1991, featuring members of Killing Joke and vocalist Chris Connelly. Murder, Inc. consisted of Connelly; Killing Joke members Geordie Walker, Paul Raven, and Martin Atkins; former Killing Joke drummer "Big Paul" Ferguson; and...
  
   – Murder, Inc. (1992)
• Crain
  Crain (band)
  Crain was an indie band spawned from the same fertile early 1990s Louisville, Kentucky math rock scene that also gave birth to Slint and Rodan. Combining complex meter and composition with a hard-edged attack, the band was a fixture of the scene but failed to attain the same acclaim as their more...
  
   – Speed
  Speed
  In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity ; it is thus a scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance traveled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as...
  
  (1992)
• Union Carbide Productions
  Union Carbide Productions
  Union Carbide Productions was a Swedish rock band formed by Ebbot Lundberg , Patrik Caganis, Björn Olsson, Per Helm and Henrik Rylander in 1985....
  
   – Swing (1992)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Twice Is Not Enough (track "Neronia" only; co-produced with William Bennett) (1992)
• Fugazi – In On The Kill Taker (Demos, unreleased)
• Dazzling Killmen
  Dazzling Killmen
  Dazzling Killmen was a math rock band from the St. Louis, Missouri area. The band combining a punk-inspired noisy ruckus with jazzy Sun Ra-type intelligence and complex arrangements.-Biography:...
  
   – Dig Out The Switch (1992)
• Distorted Pony – Punishment Room (credited as bespectacled wisp of a fellow from the midwest)

1993

• Crow
  Crow (Australian band)
  Crow are an Australian rock band that is best known for three albums released in the 90s. Founded by songwriters Peter Fenton and Peter Archer in Sydney in 1986, Crow ceased all activity in 1999, only to begin playing again in 2007....
  
   – My Kind Of Pain (1993)
• Engine Kid – Bear Catching Fish (1993) (uncredited)
• Craw
  Craw (band)
  Craw is an independent band from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. They belong to the harder-edged branch of the math rock or post rock movement, in the same category as bands such as Colossamite, Keelhaul, Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, and Ruins.- History :...
  
   – Craw (1993) (uncredited)
• Don Caballero
  Don Caballero
  Don Caballero are an American rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group took their name from the character Guy Caballero, portrayed by Joe Flaherty, on the sketch comedy show Second City Television...
  
   – "Our Caballero" b/w "My Ten Year Old Lady Is Giving It Away" (a-side only, uncredited)
• Don Caballero – "Andandandandandandandand" b/w "First Hits" (uncredited)
• Don Caballero – For Respect
  For Respect
  For Respect is the debut album by Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based math rock band. For Respect was released on Touch and Go Records in 1993....
  
  (1993) (uncredited)
• PJ Harvey
  PJ Harvey
  Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.Harvey began her career in...
  
   – Rid of Me
  Rid of Me
  Rid of Me is the second studio album by British musician PJ Harvey. It was released by Island Records in May 1993, approximately one year after the release of her critically acclaimed debut album Dry...
  
  (1993) (Albini recorded all but one song)
• Jawbreaker
  Jawbreaker (band)
  Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996 and considered one of the most influential acts of the early-1990s emo movement...
  
   – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993) (uncredited)
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
  
   – In Utero (1993)
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet were a Juno Award-winning Canadian instrumental rock band, formed in 1984. They remain best-known for the track "Having an Average Weekend," which was used as the theme to the Canadian sketch comedy TV show The Kids in the Hall...
  
   – Sport Fishin (1993)
• Mule
  Mule (band)
  Mule was an American punk blues band from Michigan, active in the early 1990s. Formed from the ashes of Wig and Laughing Hyenas, their music incorporated elements of hardcore punk, blues-rock, and alternative country.-History:...
  
   – "Wrung EP" (1993)
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History
  The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History
  The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History was Shellac's first release , a 3 song 7" on Touch and Go Records. It was released in 1993 on vinyl format only...
  
  7" (1993)
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – Uranus
  Uranus (Shellac EP)
  Uranus is Shellac Record #2, a two song 7" on Touch and Go Records. It was released in 1993 on vinyl format only. It is believed that it was recorded at the same time as their first release, The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History...
  
  7" (1993)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – His Absence Is a Blessing single (1993)
• Tar
  Tar (band)
  Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The precursor to Tar was a hardcore punk outfit called Blatant Dissent, which formed in DeKalb, Illinois where singer/guitarist John Mohr and drummer Mike Greenlees were attending Northern Illinois University...
  
   – Toast (1993)
• Urbn DK – Denial (1993) (uncredited)
• Usherhouse – Molting (1993)
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
   – Desire For Agony
  Desire For Agony
  Desire For Agony is a 1993 album by Zeni Geva. It is produced by Steve Albini.- Track listing :All tracks by Zeni Geva# "Stigma" - 2:37# "Dead Sun Rising" - 3:05# "Desire For Agony" - 2:34# "Heathen Blood" - 5:35# "Disgraceland" - 3:46...
  
  (1993)
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
   – All Right You Little Bastards(1993) (live album, Albini plays guitar)
• Various Artists – 1993 Mercury Music Prize: Shortlist Sampler (1993)
• Various Artists – The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
  The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
  The Beavis and Butt-head Experience is a compilation album, released in 1993 by Geffen Records. The name is a reference to Jimi Hendrix's original band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Overview:...
  
  (1993)
• Various Artists – Whip
  Whip
  A whip is a tool traditionally used by humans to exert control over animals or other people, through pain compliance or fear of pain, although in some activities whips can be used without use of pain, such as an additional pressure aid in dressage...
  
  (1993)

1994

• Red Krayola
  Red Krayola
  Red Krayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Frederick Barthelme and Steve Cunningham...
  
   – S/T (W/Bob Weston and Brian Paulson) not credited on album (1994)
• Space Streakings – 7-Toku (1994) (mix only)
• Dazzling Killmen
  Dazzling Killmen
  Dazzling Killmen was a math rock band from the St. Louis, Missouri area. The band combining a punk-inspired noisy ruckus with jazzy Sun Ra-type intelligence and complex arrangements.-Biography:...
  
   – Face of Collapse (1994)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Halogen
  Halogen
  The halogens or halogen elements are a series of nonmetal elements from Group 17 IUPAC Style of the periodic table, comprising fluorine , chlorine , bromine , iodine , and astatine...
  
  (co-produced with William Bennett) (1994)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – In the West
  In the West
  In The West is the second full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It is the band's first full-length album to be produced by their long-time friend Steve Albini; the first official recording that the band recorded with him was the His Absence Is A Blessing EP.-Track listing:#"Garden...
  
  (1994)
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – The Bird is the Most Popular Finger
  The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger
  The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger is the third release by Shellac. The title is a parodic reference to the album The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird by Six Finger Satellite, and was originally the title of an article on Shellac that appeared in the magazine Alternative Press after the release of...
  
  7" (1994)
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – At Action Park
  At Action Park
  At Action Park is the first full length record by Shellac, released in 1994. Contrary to popular belief, the title has nothing to do with the infamous New Jersey theme park, Action Park, which closed in 1996 due to numerous fatalities. Drummer, Todd Trainer, came up with the title of the fictional...
  
  (1994)
• Various Artists – Insurgent Country, Vol. 1: For a Life of Sin (1994)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – Libertine
  Libertine (album)
  Libertine is the third full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. This was their last recorded release before guitarist/vocalist Joel RL Phelps left the band.-Track listing:#"There is a Party in Warsaw Tonight" -...
  
  (1994)
• The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard
  The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial...
  
   – Down
  Down (The Jesus Lizard album)
  -Chart performance:-External links:*...
  
  (1994)
• Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana is a Japanese punk band that is known for playing extremely fast noise music mixed with experimental electronica and pop-based song structures. They have worked with artists as diverse as Merzbow, John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Discordance Axis...
  
   – Speak Squeak Creak
  Speak Squeak Creak
  Speak Squeak Creak is the first album by Melt-Banana. It was first released in September 1994 by NUX Organization and re-issued by A-Zap in April, 2001....
  
  (1994)
• Craw
  Craw (band)
  Craw is an independent band from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. They belong to the harder-edged branch of the math rock or post rock movement, in the same category as bands such as Colossamite, Keelhaul, Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, and Ruins.- History :...
  
   – Lost Nation Road (1994)
• Crow
  Crow (Australian band)
  Crow are an Australian rock band that is best known for three albums released in the 90s. Founded by songwriters Peter Fenton and Peter Archer in Sydney in 1986, Crow ceased all activity in 1999, only to begin playing again in 2007....
  
   – My Kind of Pain (1994)
• Mule
  Mule (band)
  Mule was an American punk blues band from Michigan, active in the early 1990s. Formed from the ashes of Wig and Laughing Hyenas, their music incorporated elements of hardcore punk, blues-rock, and alternative country.-History:...
  
   – "If I Don't Six" (1994)
• Morsel – Noise Floor (1994)
• Brise-Glace
  Brise-Glace
  Brise-Glace was a 1990s instrumental avant-rock "supergroup" composed of Jim O'Rourke , Darin Gray , Dylan Posa , and Thymme Jones ....
  
   – When in Vanitas (1994) (uncredited)
• Brise-Glace
  Brise-Glace
  Brise-Glace was a 1990s instrumental avant-rock "supergroup" composed of Jim O'Rourke , Darin Gray , Dylan Posa , and Thymme Jones ....
  
   – In Sisters all and Felony 7" (1994)
• Various Artists – You Got Lucky: Tom Petty Tribute (1994)
• Six Finger Satellite
  Six Finger Satellite
  Six Finger Satellite are an American synthesizer-based post-hardcore band, based in Providence, Rhode Island.- History :The band formed in 1990 around a line-up of J. Ryan , John MacLean , Peter Phillips , Chris Dixon , and Rick Pelletier...
  
   – Machine Cuisine (1994)
• johnboy – Claim Dedications (Trance Syndicate) (1994)
• Breadwinner
  Breadwinner (band)
  Breadwinner was a math rock-band based in Richmond, Virginia composed of: Pen Rollings , Robert Donne , and Chris Farmer . Rollings had previously been a member of hardcore punk outfit Honor Role...
  
   – Burner
  Burner (Breadwinner album)
  Merge Records had released two 7-inch singles while the band was active, 1990-1992.This full-length CD, Burner , comprises the two out-of-print singles and 3 unreleased tracks, came out after the band had broken up.-Track listing:# Tourette's 1:50...
  
  (1994)
• Souls – tjitchhischtsiy (1994)
• Lizard Train – Everything Moves (1994)
• Lizard Train – Inertia (1994)

1995

• Uzeda
  Uzeda
  Uzeda is a Sicilian math rock group founded in 1987, consisting of lead singer Giovanna Cacciola, guitarists Agostino Tilotta and Giovanni Nicosia, bassist Raffaele Gulisano and drummer Davide Oliveri. Steve Albini recorded three of their records...
  
   – 4 (1995)
• Faucet – Bleeding Head (1995)
• Lizard Music – Fashionably Lame (1995)
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
   – Freedom Bondage
  Freedom Bondage
  Freedom Bondage is an album by Zeni Geva released in August 1995 via Alternative Tentacles.-Track listing:#"Alienation" – 1:34#"Alienation pt. 2" – 1:11#"Death Blows" – 3:23#"Burn Your Flesh Out" – 3:47#"Disorganization" – 3:14...
  
  (1995)
• Killdozer
  Killdozer (band)
  Killdozer was an American noise-rock band, formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1983, with members Bill Hobson, Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald. They took their name from the 1974 TV movie, directed by Jerry London, itself based on a Theodore Sturgeon short story. They released their first album,...
  
   – God Hears the Pleas of the Innocent (1995)
• Various Artists – Homage: Lots of Bands Doing Descendents's Songs (1995)
• Gaunt
  Gaunt (band)
  Gaunt was a pop punk band formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1991. The original lineup formed from the ashes of the short-lived and punkadelic Black Juju, and consisted of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Jerry Wick, bassist Eric Barth and drummer Jeff Regensburger...
  
   – I Can See Your Mom From Here (1995)
• Superchunk
  Superchunk
  Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s...
  
   – Incidental Music 1991-95
  Incidental Music 1991-95
  Incidental Music 1991–95 is a collection of various b-sides and previously unreleased tracks by Superchunk. It was released by Merge Records in 1995...
  
  (1995)
• Various Artists – Insurgent Country, Vol. 2: Hell-Bent (1995)
• Screeching Weasel
  Screeching Weasel
  Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1986 by Ben Weasel and John Jughead.Since their formation, Screeching Weasel have broken up and reformed numerous times with numerous line-up changes. Ben Weasel has been the only constant...
  
   – Kill the Musicians
  Kill the Musicians
  Released in 1995, Kill the Musicians was meant to serve as a "cleaning up" of loose ends after Screeching Weasel's breakup in 1994. The compilation collects demos, b-sides, vinyl-only EPs, and other various odds and ends the band had accumulated in their career from 1989 to 1994...
  
  (1995)
• 18th Dye
  18th Dye
  18th Dye was a Berlin-based German/Danish noise rock band formed in 1992 by German Sebastian Büttrich , Danish-German Heike Rädeker and Dane Piet Bendtsen . They broke up in 1999 after 2 albums and an EP, but reformed in 2005...
  
   – Tribute To A Bus
  Tribute To A Bus
  Tribute To A Bus is the second full length album by 18th Dye, originally released in 1995. It was recorded by Steve Albini.-Track listing:#"Glass House Failure" – 4:02#"Sole Arch " – 3:52#"Only Burn" – 2:56#"Play W/You" – 3:59#"Label" – 3:31...
  
  (1995)
• The Fleshtones
  The Fleshtones
  The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York formed in 1976.- 1976-1979 :The Fleshtones were formed in 1976 in Whitestone, New York by Keith Streng and Marek Pakulski The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York formed in 1976.- 1976-1979 :The...
  
   – Laboratory of Sound (1995)
• The Drovers
  The Drovers
  The Drovers are a Chicago rock band whose original songs were influenced by Irish traditional dance music.Founded by Irish traditional fiddler Seán Cleland in 1988, the group recorded four albums and soundtrack music for the motion pictures, Backdraft and Blink...
  
   – Little High Sky Show (1995)
• Martians – Low Budget Stunt King (1995)
• Various Artists – Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division (1995)
• Gastr del Sol
  Gastr del Sol
  Gastr del Sol was a Chicago band consisting, for most of their career, of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. Between 1993 and 1998 they put out seven albums ranging in genre from post-rock to musique concrète....
  
   – Mirror Repair EP (1995)
• Tar
  Tar (band)
  Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The precursor to Tar was a hardcore punk outfit called Blatant Dissent, which formed in DeKalb, Illinois where singer/guitarist John Mohr and drummer Mike Greenlees were attending Northern Illinois University...
  
   – Over and Out (1995)
• The Amps
  The Amps
  The Amps were an indie-rock band from Dayton, Ohio. Formed by Kim Deal in 1995 after The Breeders went on hiatus, they first began touring as "Tammy Ampersand and the Amps" but it was later shortened to "The Amps."Their album Pacer was released in 1995.Kim Deal originally intended to play all of...
  
   – Pacer
  Pacer (album)
  Pacer was The Amps' only LP. It was released on October 31, 1995. The album is titled after the first track. The song "I Am Decided" was a combination of two songs written by Robert Pollard, which were given to Kim Deal as a gift after she produced some songs for Guided by Voices...
  
  (Not credited, not all songs) (1995)
• Sloy
  Sloy
  Sloy was a french indie rock band, formed in 1991 in Béziers and disbanded in 2000. They emerged thanks to the collaboration of Steve Albini, who produced their first albums.-Albums:*1995 : Plug...
  
   – Plug (1995)
• Man or Astro-man?
  Man or Astro-man?
  Man or Astro-man? is a surf rock group that formed in Auburn, Alabama, in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade.Primarily instrumental, Man or Astro-man? blended the surf rock style of the early 1960s like that of The Spotnicks with the new wave and punk rock sounds of...
  
   – Project Infinity
  Project Infinity
  Project Infinity is the second full-length studio album by Man or Astro-man?. The cover is a reworking of Attilio Mineo's Man in Space with Sounds, which was used as the soundtrack to the futuristic "Bubbleator" exhibit at the 1962 Century 21 Exposition .-Track listing:#"Escape Velocity" –...
  
  (1995)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Quality Time (co-produced with William Bennett) (1995)
• Tony Conrad
  Tony Conrad
  Tony Conrad is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer...
  
   – Slapping Pythagoras (1995)
• Palace Music
  Will Oldham
  Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
  
   – Viva Last Blues
  Viva Last Blues
  Viva Last Blues is an album by Palace Music, featuring Will Oldham on vocals and guitar. The album was recorded by Steve Albini and was released in 1995 on Drag City...
  
  (1995)
• Oxbow
  Oxbow (band)
  Oxbow is a long-lived Avant-Garde band out of San Francisco, California notable for a unique sound. Oxbow plays a blend of Noise rock, Avant-garde jazz, Musique concrète , and Blues, creating soundscapes caustic, or plangent, with overtones of paranoia, revulsion, exaltation.-Current line-up:*Dan...
  
   – Let Me Be a Woman (1995) (recorded 1993)
• Yona-Kit
  Yona-Kit
  Yona-Kit was a math rock quartet active in 1994.A U.S.-Japanese collaboration, the group consisted of KK Null , Jim O'Rourke , Darin Gray , and Thymme Jones . All but Null were contemporaneously members of the group Brise-Glace.Yona-Kit released one album, Yona-Kit on Skin Graft Records...
  
   – Yona-Kit (1995)
• Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana is a Japanese punk band that is known for playing extremely fast noise music mixed with experimental electronica and pop-based song structures. They have worked with artists as diverse as Merzbow, John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Discordance Axis...
  
   – Scratch or Stitch
  Scratch or Stitch
  Scratch or Stitch is an album by Melt-Banana. This album was the first breakthrough for the band, as well as their first actual U.S. release. LP versions of this album were limited to 2,600 copies, housed in rubber packaging with a poster lyric sheet and a special Melt-Banana temporary tattoo.The...
  
  (1995)
• Thrush Hermit
  Thrush Hermit
  -History:Thrush Hermit was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1992 by Joel Plaskett , Rob Benvie , Ian McGettigan , and Michael Catano...
  
   -The Great Pacific Ocean
  The Great Pacific Ocean
  The Great Pacific Ocean is the second EP by Canadian rock band Thrush Hermit, released in 1995 on CD and 12" picture disc by Murderecords. The EP was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini.-Track listing:# The Great Pacific Ocean...
  
  EP (1995)

1996

• The Auteurs
  The Auteurs
  The Auteurs were a British alternative rock band of the 1990s, and a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Luke Haines .-Career:...
  
   – After Murder Park
  After Murder Park
  After Murder Park is the 1996 third album by british alternative rock band The Auteurs.-Track listing:*CD/LP # "Light Aircraft on Fire" – 2:17# "The Child Brides" – 4:26# "Land Lovers" – 2:31...
  
  (1996)
• Laurels – L (1996)
• Palace Music
  Will Oldham
  Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
  
   – Arise Therefore
  Arise Therefore
  Arise Therefore is the fourth studio album of Will Oldham. The album's packaging does not include the artist's name. It has been considered both a Palace release and a Will Oldham release. The album features David Grubbs, Ned Oldham, and a Mayatone drum machine credited as "Maya Tone"...
  
  (1996)
• Oxbow
  Oxbow (band)
  Oxbow is a long-lived Avant-Garde band out of San Francisco, California notable for a unique sound. Oxbow plays a blend of Noise rock, Avant-garde jazz, Musique concrète , and Blues, creating soundscapes caustic, or plangent, with overtones of paranoia, revulsion, exaltation.-Current line-up:*Dan...
  
   – Serenade in Red (1996) (European release)
• Rosa Mota – Bionic (1996)
• Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks is an American alternative country artist originally from Pennsylvania but who is a longtime Chicago, Illinois resident...
  
   – Country Love Songs
  Country Love Songs
  Country Love Songs is the debut album by American country and alternative country singer/songwriter Robbie Fulks, released in 1996.-Reception:...
  
  (1996)
• Big'n – Discipline Through Sound (1996) (credited as "Inibla Nevets")
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – Firewater
  Firewater (Silkworm album)
  Firewater is the fourth full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It was engineered by Steve Albini, who worked on most of the band's recorded work. The album was recorded and released two years after guitarist/vocalist Joel RL Phelps left the band, leaving the remaining members to...
  
  (1996)
• Bodychoke
  Bodychoke
  Bodychoke was an experimental noise rock side-project of Power Electronics band Sutcliffe Jügend active between 1993 and 1999. The band released 4 albums, most notably their debut 'Mindshaft' produced by British psychedelic dub legend Ott and 'Five Prostitutes" which was produced by Steve Albini...
  
   – Five Prostitutes (1996)
• A Minor Forest
  A Minor Forest
  A Minor Forest was a San Francisco-based math rock band in the 1990s. They were musically related to the Louisville scene of post rock groups like Slint and had personal connections to the San Diego scene of Three Mile Pilot and related bands...
  
   – Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)
  Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)
  Flemish Altruism is A Minor Forest's first studio album. It was recorded in 1995 by Steve Albini and Bob Weston and released on the Thrill Jockey label.-Track listing:#"...But the Pants Stay On" -...
  
  (1996)(about every other track)
• Phono-Comb
  Phono-Comb
  Phono-Comb was a Canadian instrumental/modern surf rock group that originated in Toronto, Ontario.-History:Phono-Comb first materialized when Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet played with Jad Fair when he was performing in Toronto to promote a film about his band Half Japanese...
  
   – Fresh Gasoline (1996)
• Brainiac
  Brainiac (band)
  Brainiac was an American synthpunk band formed in 1992, and disbanded after the sudden death of lead singer Tim Taylor in 1997.-Biography:...
  
   – Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
  Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
  Hissing Prigs in Static Couture is the third album from the band Brainiac.Pitchfork Media ranked this album #73 in their feature, Top 100 albums of the 1990s.-Track listing:# "Indian Poker, Pt...
  
  (1996)
• Dis- – Historically Troubled Third Album (1996)
• Splendorbin – Stealth (1996)
• Stinking Lizaveta
  Stinking Lizaveta
  Stinking Lizaveta is a power trio from Philadelphia that plays heavy instrumental rock. MusicMight categorizes them as "doom jazz". Their 1996 debut album was recorded by Steve Albini. Albini was so impressed by them, he brought them to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he co-curated in 2004...
  
   – Hopelessness & Shame (1996)
• Various Artists – In Defense of Animals, Vol. 2 (1996)
• Union
  Union (band)
  Union is an American rock group formed in 1997 featuring lead vocalist and guitarist John Corabi , guitarist Bruce Kulick , bassist James Hunting, and drummer Brent Fitz .-Formation:...
  
   – In Terminus GA, 1997 (1996) (some vocals recorded and some songs mixed by David Barbe)
• Various Artists – Jabberjaw Compilation, Vol. 2: Pure Sweet Hell (1996)
• Fred Schneider
  Fred Schneider
  Frederick William "Fred" Schneider III is an American rock singer, best known as the frontman of the rock band The B-52's, of which he is a founding member. Schneider is well-known for his sprechgesang which he developed from reciting poetry over guitars.-Early life:Schneider was born in Newark,...
  
   – Just Fred
  Just Fred
  Just Fred is an album by Fred Schneider, released in 1996. It was the second of his two solo albums.-Track listing:All lyrics by Fred Schneider, music written as noted, excepting "Coconut" which is written by Harry Nilsson# "Whip"...
  
  (1996)
• Smog
  Smog (band)
  Bill Callahan , is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders...
  
   – Kicking a Couple Around
  Kicking a Couple Around
  Kicking a Couple Around is Smog's third EP, released on Drag City in April 1996 and re-released in Europe on Domino in 2001. "Your New Friend" was originally recorded during a 1994 John Peel radio session...
  
  EP (1996)
• Mandingo – Macho Grande (1996)
• Cheer-Accident
  Cheer-Accident
  Cheer-Accident is an American indie rock ensemble headed by Thymme Jones. Jones took the name of the band from a Hallmark Cards shopping display, and first formed the group in 1981 with singer Jim Drummond and drummer Mike Greenlees.-Biography:...
  
   – Not a Food (1996)
• Ativin
  Ativin
  Ativin is an experimental post-rock band from Bloomington, Indiana. Chris Carothers and Dan Burton of Early Day Miners make up their core, with a revolving door of drummers.- Biography :...
  
   – Pills vs. Planes
  Pills vs. Planes
  The Pills Versus Planes EP is the debut release from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental group, Ativin.-Track listing:# "I Know One-Hundred Things" – 5:30# "King's Ship" – 5:15# "Mass" – 4:20# "Metallic Boy" – 1:17# "Meditational Flaws" – 7:23...
  
  (1996)
• Sloy
  Sloy
  Sloy was a french indie rock band, formed in 1991 in Béziers and disbanded in 2000. They emerged thanks to the collaboration of Steve Albini, who produced their first albums.-Albums:*1995 : Plug...
  
   – Planet of Tubes (1996)
• Bush
  Bush (band)
  Bush are an alternative rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met in a London nightclub. Realising they shared a love for such diverse artists as the Pixies, Bob Marley, The Jesus Lizard, MC5, Nirvana, Hüsker Dü, and Big...
  
   – Razorblade Suitcase
  Razorblade Suitcase
  Razorblade Suitcase is the second album by the British grunge band Bush, released in November 1996 by Trauma Records. The album is widely believed to have signaled the demise of the "grunge" genre, as it was one of the last widely-known albums released bearing a grunge-sound.-Album title:The...
  
  (1996)
• Dazzling Killmen
  Dazzling Killmen
  Dazzling Killmen was a math rock band from the St. Louis, Missouri area. The band combining a punk-inspired noisy ruckus with jazzy Sun Ra-type intelligence and complex arrangements.-Biography:...
  
   – Recuerda
  Recuerda
  Recuerda is a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 113 inhabitants....
  
  (1996) (three songs only)
• The Mark of Cain
  The Mark of Cain
  The Mark of Cain is a hard rock/alternative metal band from Adelaide, South Australia. Their style has been likened to that of Helmet and Rollins Band, yet this band predates both of those groups and was influenced by the early work of Joy Division and US hardcore...
  
   – Rock & Roll (1996)
• Various Artists – Shots in the Dark
  Shots in the Dark
  Shots in the Dark is a Canadian documentary exploring vaccination procedures in the USA and several other countries. Through interviews with medical researchers and parents, the authors present their point of view on side effects of vaccination, and discuss its alleged association with increasing...
  
  (1996)
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
  
   – Singles (1996)
• Shakuhachi Surprise – Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta (1996)
• Les Thugs
  Les Thugs
  Les Thugs are a punk band from France. The band were formed in 1983 with five members and were soon reduced to four in the same year: Eric Sourice on guitar and lead vocals, Thierry Meanard on guitar, Christophe Sourice on drums, and Gerald Chabaud on bass up until 1983. Chabaud was replaced by...
  
   – Strike (1996)
• Bush
  Bush (band)
  Bush are an alternative rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met in a London nightclub. Realising they shared a love for such diverse artists as the Pixies, Bob Marley, The Jesus Lizard, MC5, Nirvana, Hüsker Dü, and Big...
  
   – "Swallowed" single (1996)
• Hubcap – Those Kids Are Wierder (1996)
• Low
  Low (band)
  Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2010, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker , both founding members, and Steve Garrington ....
  
   – Transmission EP (1996) (Albini also contributed some illustrations)
• Scrawl
  Scrawl
  Scrawl is a musical trio based in Columbus, Ohio. The founding members are Marcy Mays , Sue Harshe , and Carolyn O'Leary . Their first show, in the summer of 1985, was a 20-minute opening spot for the Meat Puppets...
  
   – Travel On, Rider (1996)
• Guided by Voices
  Guided by Voices
  Guided by Voices is an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. Beginning with the band's formation in 1983, it made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard...
  
   – Under the Bushes Under the Stars
  Under the Bushes Under the Stars
  Under the Bushes Under the Stars is the ninth Guided by Voices album overall, and the last until 2012's Let's Go Eat the Factory to feature the "classic" lineup including Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell in addition to leader Robert Pollard...
  
  (1996) (two songs only, credited to "Fluss")
• Vent 414
  Vent 414
  Vent 414 were a short-lived British independent rock band, who were active for a few years in the 1990s. They were mostly notable for their line-up; Miles Hunt from the recently defunct The Wonder Stuff, Billy Duffy , and Morgan Nicholls , along with Pete Howard, drummer from The Clash and...
  
   – Vent 414
  Vent 414
  Vent 414 were a short-lived British independent rock band, who were active for a few years in the 1990s. They were mostly notable for their line-up; Miles Hunt from the recently defunct The Wonder Stuff, Billy Duffy , and Morgan Nicholls , along with Pete Howard, drummer from The Clash and...
  
  (1996)
• Killdozer
  Killdozer (band)
  Killdozer was an American noise-rock band, formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1983, with members Bill Hobson, Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald. They took their name from the 1974 TV movie, directed by Jerry London, itself based on a Theodore Sturgeon short story. They released their first album,...
  
   & Ritual Device – When the Levee Breaks
  When the Levee Breaks
  "When the Levee Breaks" is a blues song written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song is in reaction to the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927....
  
  (1996)
• Veruca Salt
  Veruca Salt (band)
  Veruca Salt is an alternative rock band founded in 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included vocalist-guitarist Louise Post. Guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick has been with the band since 1999 and drummer Kellii Scott has worked with the group on and off since 1999...
  
   – Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
  Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
  Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album American Thighs . The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post....
  
  (1996)
• Burning Witch
  Burning Witch
  Burning Witch was an American doom metal band from Seattle, Washington, active between 1995 and 1998.-History:Burning Witch formed on Capitol Hill, Seattle in early 1995. After the breakup of the doom/death band Thorr's Hammer in 1995, Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson and Jamie Sykes formed Burning...
  
   – Towers...
  Towers...
  Towers... is the debut EP by the band Burning Witch. It was recorded by renowned indie producer Steve Albini. It was available as a part of the compilation album Crippled Lucifer which is now out of print, but has since been re-released as a 2 disc set Crippled Lucifer , through Southern Lord...
  
  (1996)
• Wuhling – Extra 6 (1996)

1997

• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – Terraform
  Terraform (Shellac)
  -Artwork:Credited to:*Courtesy Estate of Chesley Bonestell*Space Art Museum*Smithsonian Institution-Personnel:*Steve Albini - guitar/vocals*Robert S. Weston IV - bass/vocals*Todd Trainer - drums...
  
  (1997)
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – The Futurist (1997)
• Souls – Bird fish or inbetween (1997)
• Bokomolech – Jet Lag, LP (1997)
• Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
  
   – "Baby Talk
  Baby Talk
  Baby Talk is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 8, 1991 until May 8, 1992 as part of ABC's TGIF lineup. The show was loosely based on the popular Look Who's Talking movie series and was adapted for television by Ed. Weinberger...
  
  " b/w "Brontosaurus" single (1997)
• Cheap Trick – unreleased re-recording of In Color
• Craw
  Craw (band)
  Craw is an independent band from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. They belong to the harder-edged branch of the math rock or post rock movement, in the same category as bands such as Colossamite, Keelhaul, Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, and Ruins.- History :...
  
   – Map, Monitor, Surge (1997)
• Darling Little Jackhammer – Criminally Easy To Please (1997)
• Ein Heit – Lightning and the Sun (1997)
• Great Unraveling – Great Unraveling (1997)
• Original Soundtrack – Jackal (Original Soundtrack) (1997)
• Oxbow
  Oxbow (band)
  Oxbow is a long-lived Avant-Garde band out of San Francisco, California notable for a unique sound. Oxbow plays a blend of Noise rock, Avant-garde jazz, Musique concrète , and Blues, creating soundscapes caustic, or plangent, with overtones of paranoia, revulsion, exaltation.-Current line-up:*Dan...
  
   – Serenade in Red (1997) (US release; recorded 1996)
• Pegboy
  Pegboy
  Pegboy is an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois with a relatively large cult following. They were founded in 1990 by John Haggerty , along with his brother Joe Haggerty , Larry Damore , and Steve Saylors...
  
   – Cha Cha Damore (1997)
• Pixies – Death to the Pixies 1987-1991 (1997)
• P.W. Long's Reelfoot – We Didn't See You on Sunday (1997)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – Developer
  Developer (album)
  Developer is the fifth full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It was their second and final album released on Matador Records before they switched to Touch and Go.-Track listing:#Give Me Some Skin --...
  
  (1997)
• Solar Race – Homespun
  Homespun
  Homespun is a demo album by XTC released by Cooking Vinyl and Idea Records. A companion to Apple Venus Volume 1, it has the same running order as its parent album...
  
  (1997)
• Spider Virus – Electric Erection (1997)
• Storm & Stress
  Storm & Stress
  Storm & Stress is an American experimental/noise rock band. The band's name is derived from the German literary movement Sturm und Drang.-Discography:*Storm and Stress - Touch & Go Records...
  
   – Storm & Stress
  Storm & Stress
  Storm & Stress is an American experimental/noise rock band. The band's name is derived from the German literary movement Sturm und Drang.-Discography:*Storm and Stress - Touch & Go Records...
  
  (1997)
• Various Artists – Guide to Fast Living, Vol. 2 (1997)
• Dianogah
  Dianogah
  Dianogah is a Chicago, Illinois based indie rock outfit formed in 1995, noted for their use of two bass guitars. Members include Kip McCabe, Jay Ryan and Jason Harvey. Dianogah's first full-length album, As Seen From Above, was recorded by Steve Albini, who also produced their second full-length...
  
   – As Seen from Above
  As Seen from Above
  As Seen from Above is an album by Dianogah, released in 1997.-Track listing:#"Plankton and Krill" – 3:02#"What Is Your Landmass?" – 2:54#"Seeing Stars" – 3:47#"Broken Magnet Halves" – 3:49#"Colby" – 3:39#"Between the Ship and the Land" – 5:29...
  
  (1997)

1998

• Pansy Division
  Pansy Division
  Pansy Division is an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California in 1991. Featuring primarily gay musicians and focusing mostly on gay-related themes, Pansy Division is one of the more melodic-oriented bands to emerge from the "queercore" movement that began in the 1980s.-Early...
  
   – Absurd Pop Song Romance
  Absurd Pop Song Romance
  Absurd Pop Song Romance is an album by queercore band Pansy Division.-Track listing:# # "February 17"# "Sweet Insecurity"# "It'll Never Be the Same"# "Better Off Just Friends"# "Too Beautiful"# # "Luv Luv Luv"#...
  
  (1998)
• Pedro, Muriel & Esther – The White To Be Angry (1998)
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – ACME
  ACME (album)
  ACME is the sixth studio album by the American punk blues group Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, released on Matador in 1998.-Track listing:#"Calvin"#"Magical Colors"#"Do You Want to Get Heavy"#"High Gear"#"Talk About the Blues"...
  
  (1998)
• Young Dubliners
  Young Dubliners
  The Young Dubliners is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1988. Their style of music has come to be called Celtic Rock, for the fusion of Irish traditional instruments and music with modern rock...
  
   – Alive Alive O (1998)
• Silver Apples – Beacon
  Beacon
  A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.Beacons can also be combined with semaphoric or other indicators to provide important information, such as the status of an airport, by the colour and rotational pattern of its airport beacon, or of...
  
  (1998)
• Uzeda
  Uzeda
  Uzeda is a Sicilian math rock group founded in 1987, consisting of lead singer Giovanna Cacciola, guitarists Agostino Tilotta and Giovanni Nicosia, bassist Raffaele Gulisano and drummer Davide Oliveri. Steve Albini recorded three of their records...
  
   – Different Section Wires (1998)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – Even a Blind Chicken Finds a Kernel of Corn: 1990-199 (1998)
• Eclectics – Idle Worship (1998)
• Will Oldham
  Will Oldham
  Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
  
   – Little Joya
  Little Joya
  Little Joya is the name of a Will Oldham CD single released in 1997 on Drag City Records. The single originally came as a bonus disc with some copies of Oldham's Joya album , but was reissued separately in 1998....
  
  (1998)
• Pansy Division
  Pansy Division
  Pansy Division is an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California in 1991. Featuring primarily gay musicians and focusing mostly on gay-related themes, Pansy Division is one of the more melodic-oriented bands to emerge from the "queercore" movement that began in the 1980s.-Early...
  
   – More Lovin' From Our Oven
  More Lovin' From Our Oven
  More Lovin' From Our Oven is a compilation of singles, unreleased tracks, demos and other rare songs by queercore band Pansy Division.-Track listing:#"I'm Gonna Be A Slut"#"Manada"#"Pretty Boy "#"Hockey Hair"#"Headbanger"...
  
  (1998)
• Plush – More You Becomes You (1998)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Mummy and Daddy (track "Private" only) (1998)
• Dirty Three
  Dirty Three
  Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis , Mick Turner and Jim White , originating from Melbourne, Australia. Since the Dirty Three formed in 1992, they have spent a lot of time overseas...
  
   – Ocean Songs
  Ocean Songs
  Ocean Songs is the fourth major album by Australian trio, Dirty Three. On some tracks David Grubbs plays piano and harmonium. Cover art by guitarist Mick Turner....
  
  (1998)
• The Sadies
  The Sadies
  The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
  
   – Precious Moments
  Precious Moments (album)
  Precious Moments is a solo album from Jackson 5 member, Jermaine Jackson. Released in 1986, the album includes the pop and R&B top-20 hit, "I Think It's Love" along with the minor hit, "Do You Remember Me."...
  
  (1998)
• Various Artists – Smash Your Radio: Jump Up! Sampler (1998)
• Bert
  Bert
  Bert is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Service's long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz. Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary performer...
  
   – Bert (Pinebox Records)
• Cordelia's Dad
  Cordelia's Dad
  Cordelia's Dad is a band from Northampton, Massachusetts that combines folk and punk rock influences and was instrumental in the creation of the genre later to be dubbed "No Depression". The band formed in 1987 and was active until 1998, when the members relocated to different parts of the country...
  
   – Spine (1998)
• The Ex – Starters Alternators
  Starters Alternators
  Starters Alternators is an album by Dutch anarchist band The Ex.-Track listing:# "Frenzy" - 5:02# "Let's Panic Later" - 5:45# "I.O.U. " - 5:02# "Art of Losing" - 5:29# "It's a Sin" - 4:23# "Two Struck by the Moon" - 3:44# "Mother" - 4:02...
  
  (1998)
• The Traitors – Traitors (1998)
• Dirty Three
  Dirty Three
  Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis , Mick Turner and Jim White , originating from Melbourne, Australia. Since the Dirty Three formed in 1992, they have spent a lot of time overseas...
  
   – Ufkuko (1998)
• Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio
  Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio
  Joel RL Phelps is a songwriter originally from Montana and was part of the indie rock band Silkworm. He left that band in 1994 and since has recorded his own material. He recorded his first non-Silkworm album in 1995 in Seattle with members of other bands such as Jessamine, Citizens' Utilities,...
  
   – 3 (1998)
• Jimmy Page & Robert Plant – Walking Into Clarksdale
  Walking into Clarksdale
  Walking into Clarksdale is a studio album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 21 April 1998. The follow-up album to No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded, Walking into Clarksdale took 35 days to record....
  
  (1998)
• Mount Shasta – Watch Out (1998) (credited as "Debbie Albini")
• Vandal X – Songs from the Heart (1998)
• Bedhead – Transaction de Novo (1998)
• .22 – Watertown EP

1999

• Teenage Frames – 1% Faster (1999)
• Fun People
  Fun People
  Fun People is a punk band from Argentina. They sing in English and Spanish, often mixing both languages in a single song or even line. Human and animal rights are frequent subjects in their lyrics...
  
   – Art of Romance
  Art of Romance
  The Art of Romance is the fifth studio album of Argentinan melodic hardcore band Fun People, issued by Ugly Records in April 1999.-Track listing:#Take Over#Middle of the Round#F.M.S.#What Will We Gonna Pay?#Leave Me Alone#Dick Dale...
  
  (1999)
• Chisel Drill Hammer – Chisel Drill Hammer (1999)
• Early Lines – Are Tired Beasts (1999)
• Filibuster
  Filibuster
  A filibuster is a type of parliamentary procedure. Specifically, it is the right of an individual to extend debate, allowing a lone member to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal...
  
   – Deadly Hifi (1999)
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based out of New York City, New York. The band consists of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals, guitar and theremin...
  
   – Emergency Call from Japan (1999)
• Neurosis
  Neurosis (band)
  Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
  
   – Times of Grace (1999)
• The Bollweevils – History of the Bollweevils, Vol. 2 (1999)
• Distortion Felix – I'm an Athlete (1999)
• Ensimi – BMX (1999)
• Ballydowse
  Ballydowse
  Ballydowse is a celtic punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois with a rare mix of anarchist and religious ideas infused into their music. Many of the group's members were from the Jesus People U.S.A. commune. In addition to the group's Mekons/Pogues-style Celtic punk influences, the group also draws...
  
   – The Land, the Bread and the People (1999)
• Murder, Inc.
  Murder, Inc. (band)
  Murder, Inc. was a short-lived industrial metal supergroup formed in 1991, featuring members of Killing Joke and vocalist Chris Connelly. Murder, Inc. consisted of Connelly; Killing Joke members Geordie Walker, Paul Raven, and Martin Atkins; former Killing Joke drummer "Big Paul" Ferguson; and...
  
   – Locate Subvert Terminate: The Complete Murder Inc. (1999)
• Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
  
   – Dogs (album) (1999, re-released 2004)
• Neutrino – Motion Picture Soundtrack
  Motion Picture Soundtrack
  This article is about Motion Picture Soundtrack, the UK alt-rock band. For film soundtracks see Soundtrack. For the track by Radiohead see Kid A.Motion Picture Soundtrack are a British alternative rock quartet from Canterbury, Kent...
  
  (1999)
• Chevelle
  Chevelle
  Chevelle is an American alternative metal trio that formed in 1995 in Grayslake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The band was originally composed of two brothers and a local friend: Pete Loeffler , Sam Loeffler , and Matt Scott . Matt was later replaced by brother Joe Loeffler...
  
   – Point #1
  Point No. 1
  -Credits:* Buddy Jackson - Art Direction* Chevelle - Main Performer* Hank Williams - Mastering* Joe Loeffler - Bass* Mark Smalling - Photography* Pete Loeffler - Guitar, Vocals* Sally Carns - Back Cover, Design* Sam Loeffler - Drums...
  
  (1999)
• Various Artists – Poor Little Knitter on the Road: A Tribute to the Kni (1999)
• The Sadies
  The Sadies
  The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
  
   – Pure Diamond Gold (1999)
• Low
  Low (band)
  Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2010, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker , both founding members, and Steve Garrington ....
  
   – Secret Name
  Secret Name
  Secret Name is the fourth full-length album by the slowcore group Low. It was their first album on the Kranky record label, and their first to be produced by Steve Albini.-Track listing:#"I Remember" – 4:11#"Starfire" – 3:06#"Two-Step" – 5:49...
  
  (1999)
• Don Caballero
  Don Caballero
  Don Caballero are an American rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group took their name from the character Guy Caballero, portrayed by Joe Flaherty, on the sketch comedy show Second City Television...
  
   – Singles Breaking Up (Vol. 1)
  Singles Breaking Up (Vol. 1)
  Singles Breaking Up is an album by Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based math rock band. Singles Breaking Up was released on Touch and Go Records in 1999 and collects songs from five of the band's seven-inch singles, one song from a "various artists" compilation and one previously unreleased song...
  
  (1999) (uncredited, five songs only)
• Ativin
  Ativin
  Ativin is an experimental post-rock band from Bloomington, Indiana. Chris Carothers and Dan Burton of Early Day Miners make up their core, with a revolving door of drummers.- Biography :...
  
   – Summing the Approach
  Summing the Approach
  The Summing the Approach EP is the second Extended Play release from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental rock group, Ativin.-Track listing:# "Cy" – 5:38# "Riding and Roaming" – 4:26# "Summing the Approach" – 6:59# "My Eyes of Yours" – 4:43...
  
  (1999)
• Pezz
  Pezz
  Pezz is a punk band from Memphis, Tennessee, USA. They formed in 1989 and released several LPs, CDs and cassettes with labels 'Truant Records', 'BYO Records', and 'Soul is Cheap'...
  
   – Warmth & Sincerity (1999)
• Hosemobile – What Can & Can't Go On (1999)
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based out of New York City, New York. The band consists of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals, guitar and theremin...
  
   – Xtra Acme USA (1999) (seven songs only)
• Dragbody – Flip The Kill Switch (1999)
• Vent 414
  Vent 414
  Vent 414 were a short-lived British independent rock band, who were active for a few years in the 1990s. They were mostly notable for their line-up; Miles Hunt from the recently defunct The Wonder Stuff, Billy Duffy , and Morgan Nicholls , along with Pete Howard, drummer from The Clash and...
  
   – Vent 414
  Vent 414
  Vent 414 were a short-lived British independent rock band, who were active for a few years in the 1990s. They were mostly notable for their line-up; Miles Hunt from the recently defunct The Wonder Stuff, Billy Duffy , and Morgan Nicholls , along with Pete Howard, drummer from The Clash and...
  
  (1999)
• New Brutalism – A Diagram Without Scale Or Dimension (1999)
• Pugs - Chimato Kubiki (1999)

2000

• Will Oldham & Rian Murphy – All Most Heaven (2000)
• Various Artists – Best Anthems... Ever! (2000)
• Cinerama
  Cinerama (band)
  Cinerama were a UK indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present.-Career:Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell...
  
   – Disco Volante
  Disco Volante
  Disco Volante is a 1995 album by the band Mr. Bungle. It is by far the most experimental of all their productions, as it picks up inspirations from a wide variety of musical styles, including death metal, techno, '50s space age pop, musique concrète and Italian avant-garde...
  
  (2000)
• Don Caballero
  Don Caballero
  Don Caballero are an American rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group took their name from the character Guy Caballero, portrayed by Joe Flaherty, on the sketch comedy show Second City Television...
  
   – American Don
  American Don
  American Don is an album by Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based math rock band, released on Touch and Go Records in 2000. It was recorded by Steve Albini....
  
  (2000) (credited only as "the proprietor" of Electrical Audio
  Electrical Audio
  Electrical Audio is a recording facility founded in Chicago, Illinois by musician and recording engineer Steve Albini in 1997. Hundreds of independent music projects have been recorded there....
  
  )
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – Lifestyle (2000)
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based out of New York City, New York. The band consists of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals, guitar and theremin...
  
   – "Magical Colours" b/w "Confused" single (2000)
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – 1000 Hurts
  1000 Hurts
  1000 Hurts is the third full-length album by Shellac, released July 31, 2000 . It is Shellac Record #11. In its official promotional materials Shellac jokingly described this album as follows: "There are no 12-minute songs on this one. This record is more mean-spirited. Todd sings."The cover is a...
  
  (2000)
• Shannon Wright
  Shannon Wright
  Shannon Wright is an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.-History:Wright moved from New York City to Chapel Hill, NC after her first band Crowsdell called it quits. While in Chapel Hill, Wright started experimenting and writing solo songs with a borrowed four-track recorder...
  
   – Maps of Tacit (2000)
• Neurosis
  Neurosis (band)
  Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
  
   – Sovereign
  Sovereign (album)
  Sovereign is an EP by the Oakland, California band Neurosis. As with the previous album, Times of Grace it was recorded by Steve Albini at Electric Audio in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  (2000)
• Man or Astro-man?
  Man or Astro-man?
  Man or Astro-man? is a surf rock group that formed in Auburn, Alabama, in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade.Primarily instrumental, Man or Astro-man? blended the surf rock style of the early 1960s like that of The Spotnicks with the new wave and punk rock sounds of...
  
   – Spectrum of Infinite Scale (2000)
• Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish-descendant band from Los Angeles, California, that is currently signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records.-Early years:...
  
   – Swagger (2000)
• The Bomb – Torch Songs (2000)
• Caesar
  Caesar (band)
  Caesar was an indie rock trio from Amsterdam consisting of Roald van Oosten, Marit de Loos and Sem Bakker. The band was founded in 1994. Caesar released four studio albums, plus one retrospective release in 2006, Before My Band Explodes....
  
   – Leaving Sparks (2000)
• Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks is an American alternative country artist originally from Pennsylvania but who is a longtime Chicago, Illinois resident...
  
   – Very Best of Robbie Fulks (2000)
• Destro 1 – Start the whole mechanical sequence (2000)
• Dianogah
  Dianogah
  Dianogah is a Chicago, Illinois based indie rock outfit formed in 1995, noted for their use of two bass guitars. Members include Kip McCabe, Jay Ryan and Jason Harvey. Dianogah's first full-length album, As Seen From Above, was recorded by Steve Albini, who also produced their second full-length...
  
   – Battle Champions (2000)

2001

• Early Lines – Hate the Living, Love the Dead (2001)
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
   – 10,000 Light Years
  10,000 Light Years
  10,000 Light Years is a 2001 album by Zeni Geva.- Track listing :- Personnel :* Kazuyuki K. Null – guitar, nullsonic, voice* Mitsuru Tabata – guitar, guitar-sunthesizer* Masataka Fujikake – drums...
  
  (2001)
• Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks is an American alternative country artist originally from Pennsylvania but who is a longtime Chicago, Illinois resident...
  
   – 13 Hillbilly Giants (2001)
• The Bottletones – Adult Time (2001)
• Meat Joy – Between the Devil and the Deep (2001)
• Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks is an American alternative country artist originally from Pennsylvania but who is a longtime Chicago, Illinois resident...
  
   – Couples in Trouble (2001)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Cruise (track "Public" only) (2001)
• Joan of Arse – Distant Hearts, a Little Closer (2001)
• The Ex – Dizzy Spells
  Dizzy Spells (album)
  Dizzy Spells is an album by Dutch anarchist band The Ex.-Track listing:All tracks by The Ex except were noted# "Town of Stone" - 5:12# "Nobodies' Dream" - 4:00# "Walt's Dizzyland" - 4:22# "Time Flies" - 4:20# "Oskar Beck" - 5:43...
  
  (2001)
• Shannon Wright
  Shannon Wright
  Shannon Wright is an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.-History:Wright moved from New York City to Chapel Hill, NC after her first band Crowsdell called it quits. While in Chapel Hill, Wright started experimenting and writing solo songs with a borrowed four-track recorder...
  
   – Dyed in the Wool (2001)
• The Traitors – Everything Went Shit: Lost and Collected Tracks (2001)
• Danielson Famile
  Danielson Famile
  Danielson is an American Rock band from Clarksboro, New Jersey that plays indie pop gospel music. The group consists of frontman Daniel Smith and a number of various artists with whom he collaborates...
  
   – Fetch the Compass Kids
  Fetch the Compass Kids
  Fetch the Compass Kids is the fifth full length album by New Jersey indie rock band Danielson Famile. A portion of the album was recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago at his Electrical Audio studios.-Track listing:# "We Don't Say Shut Up" – 2:06...
  
  (2001)
• Labradford
  Labradford
  Labradford is a U.S. post-rock musical group from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1991. They have released six full albums from 1993 to 2001. Though not officially disbanded, its members have since been active with separate projects.-Biography:...
  
   – Fixed::Context (2001)
• Cinerama
  Cinerama (band)
  Cinerama were a UK indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present.-Career:Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell...
  
   – Health and Efficiency (2001)
• Double Life – III Song EP (2001)
• XBXRX
  XBXRX
  XBXRX is an American punk band formed in 1998 in Mobile, Alabama.Their early sound very new wave-influenced, but is now more improvised and deconstructed, moving away from using the synthesizers that typify new wave. They are a collective with a revolving cast of musicians, including Steve...
  
   – Gop Ist Minee (2001)
• Chestnut Station – In Your Living Room (2001)
• Mogwai
  Mogwai
  The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...
  
   – My Father, My King
  My Father, My King
  "My Father My King" is a song by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, which was released as a single in October 2001. Over 20 minutes long, and billed as a companion piece to the album Rock Action, a sticker on the cover of the album describes it as "two parts serenity and one part death metal"...
  
  (2001)
• The New Year
  The New Year
  The New Year is an American indie rock band, formed in 1999, a year after the demise of the band Bedhead by former Bedhead members Bubba and Matt Kadane.-Band lineup:The New Year is often unable to escape frequent comparisons by critics and Bedhead fans...
  
   – Newness Ends
  Newness Ends
  Newness Ends is an album by The New Year, released in 2001. The New Year is led by former Bedhead co-founders Matt and Bubba Kadane; in some ways, Newness Ends is similar to Bedhead's final, more rock-oriented full-length Transaction De Novo....
  
  (2001)
• Owls
  Owls (band)
  Owls was an emo indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois, from 2001-2002. The band was formed by the original lineup of seminal experimental emo indie band Cap'n Jazz soon after its second breakup ; Cap'n Jazz guitarist Davey von Bohlen, who played in the band's second incarnation, had gone on to...
  
   – Owls
  OWLS
  OWLS is a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots to assess an unprepared surface for a precautionary landing.Like all mnemonics this check has become part of aviation culture and folklore.OWLS:* Obstacles* Wind direction...
  
  (2001)
• Hero of a Hundred Fights
  Hero of a Hundred Fights
  Hero of a Hundred Fights is a Wisconsin rock band.The band takes its name from a painting by J. M. W. Turner. They emerged from the ashes of Brass Knuckles for Tough Guys, Tintoretto and Managra...
  
   – The Remote, the Cold (2001)
• Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years (2001)
• Neurosis
  Neurosis (band)
  Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
  
   – A Sun That Never Sets
  A Sun that Never Sets
  A Sun That Never Sets is the seventh studio album from the Californian band Neurosis. With this album Neurosis further distances themselves from their punk influenced roots and delve further into experimentalism but also still having sludge metal influences. The album sees Neurosis incorporate folk...
  
  (2001)
• Low
  Low (band)
  Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2010, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker , both founding members, and Steve Garrington ....
  
   – Things We Lost in the Fire
  Things We Lost in the Fire
  Things We Lost in the Fire is a 2001 album by Low, their fifth full-length release. In 2006, the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.-Track listing:# "Sunflower" – 4:39...
  
  (2001)
• Sonna
  Sonna
  Sonna is a post-rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. The band formed in 1998, and have released two full length albums on label Temporary Residence, of which guitarist deVine is the owner.-Studio albums:...
  
   – We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight
  We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight
  We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight is the first full-length album by post-rock band Sonna.-Track listing:# The Opener# Low and To The Side# We Sing Loud# Sing Soft Tonight# Sleep On It# Real Quiet...
  
  (2001)
• Edith Frost
  Edith Frost
  Edith Frost is an American singer-songwriter who describes her music as "pensive countrified psychedelia". Born in San Antonio, Texas on August 18, 1964, Frost moved to Brooklyn in 1990 where she played in the country bands the Holler Sisters, the Marfa Lights and Edith and Her Roadhouse Romeos...
  
   – Wonder Wonder (2001)
• Point 22 – Worker (2001)
• Lorax[[Loraxx]]x – Yellville (2001)
• Rye Coalition
  Rye Coalition
  Rye Coalition is a hard rock band based in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. The band has released four full length albums, three EPs, a split 12" with Karp, and several 7" records....
  
   – ZZ Topless/Snowjob (2001)
• Honey for Petzi – Heal all monsters (2001)
• fra-foa – chuuno-fuchi (2001) (three songs only)
• The Black Lungs (Michigan band, not the Canadian band of the same name) – unreleased album

2002

• Various Artists – All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0: Shellac Curated (2002)
• Glen Meadmore
  Glen Meadmore
  Glen Meadmore is a Canadian musician, actor and performance artist currently residing in Los Angeles. He has been described as "...the world's greatest exponent of the genre known as gay Christian punk". He is sometimes referred to as "Cowpunk".-Biography:...
  
   – Cowboy Songs for Little Hustlers (2002)
• Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
  
   – Blackened Air (2002)
• Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish-descendant band from Los Angeles, California, that is currently signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records.-Early years:...
  
   – Drunken Lullabies (2002)
• Jawbreaker
  Jawbreaker (band)
  Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996 and considered one of the most influential acts of the early-1990s emo movement...
  
   – Etc. (2002)
• Plush – Fed
  FED
  The Fed is the informal name of the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States.Fed or FED may also refer to:...
  
  (2002)
• Goatsnake
  Goatsnake
  -Biography:Goatsnake was formed in 1996 after the disbanding of The Obsessed. After The Obsessed's disbanding, the rhythm section consisting of Guy Pinhas on bass and Greg Rogers on drums began jamming with guitarist Greg Anderson )))...
  
  /Burning Witch
  Burning Witch
  Burning Witch was an American doom metal band from Seattle, Washington, active between 1995 and 1998.-History:Burning Witch formed on Capitol Hill, Seattle in early 1995. After the breakup of the doom/death band Thorr's Hammer in 1995, Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson and Jamie Sykes formed Burning...
  
   – Goatsnake/Burning Witch
  Goatsnake/Burning Witch
  Goatsnake/Burning Witch is a split EP by Goatsnake and Burning Witch. It was released on Hydra Head Records in 2000. Both bands contribute two tracks. The second Goatsnake track, "Burial at Sea", is a Saint Vitus cover....
  
  (2002)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – Italian Platinum
  Italian Platinum
  Italian Platinum is the eighth full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm. It is the band's third album released on Touch and Go Records. Like Lifestyle, Steve Albini and his girlfriend Heather Whinna recorded and produced the album respectively...
  
  (2002)
• Giddy Motors – Make It Pop (2002)
• Mclusky
  Mclusky
  Mclusky , originally known as Best, were a three-piece post-hardcore group formed in Cardiff, Wales. The group consisted of Englishman Andy "Falco" Falkous from Newcastle Upon Tyne, Jonathan Chapple and Jack Egglestone , who replaced previous drummer Matthew Harding in late...
  
   – Mclusky Do Dallas
  Mclusky Do Dallas
  Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Mclusky Do Dallas at number 94 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000sOnline music magazine Coke Machine Glow placed Mclusky Do Dallas at number 15 on their top 100 Albums of the 2000's.-Track listing:...
  
  (2002)
• Various Artists – Membranaphonics (2002)
• Rye Coalition
  Rye Coalition
  Rye Coalition is a hard rock band based in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. The band has released four full length albums, three EPs, a split 12" with Karp, and several 7" records....
  
   – On Top (2002)
• Portastatic
  Portastatic
  Portastatic is an American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s by Mac McCaughan. Portastatic began as a solo project for McCaughan, lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk...
  
   – Perfect Little Door (2002)
• Milemarker – Satanic Versus (2002)
• The Quarterhorse – I was on fire for you (2002)
• Bellini
  Bellini (band)
  Bellini is an international indie rock/math rock band, composed of members from Girls Against Boys, Soulside, Don Caballero and Uzeda. This band was named after the Italian composer, Vincenzo Bellini .-Members:*Giovanna Cacciola - vocals...
  
   – Snowing Sun (2002)
• Sonic Mook Experiment
  Sonic Mook Experiment
  The Sonic Mook Experiment is a music enterprise overseen by Sean McLusky which encompasses a club night and several albums.The club claims that "like many great clubs in that it was about good music, drugs, scoop live performances, attractive fashionable people and quirky fad-inspiring outfits".The...
  
   – Sonic Mook Experiment 2: Future Rock & Roll (2002)
• Beachbuggy
  Beachbuggy
  Beachbuggy were a rock group formed in early 1992 in Doncaster by Jack Straker , Jim VeVee and A.D . The band's name reflected singer and main songwriter Jack's obsession with classic cars, drag racing and Americana...
  
   – Sport Fury (2002)
• The Ghost
  The Ghost (band)
  The Ghost was a punk rock band from Chicago, with its roots based in the Bay Area, California. Members were Brian Moss , Randall Bleichner, Jordan Schalich, Shane Stevens, Paul Lask and Omar Mashall...
  
   – This Is a Hospital (2002)
• Bloodlet
  Bloodlet
  Bloodlet was an American metalcore band that formed in Florida in 1992.-History:Forming in 1992, from the ashes of local Central Florida straight edge hardcore band, Solid Answer. As a five-piece band, Bloodlet started quickly by releasing two seven-inch singles in 1993. Even though the fledgling...
  
   – Three Humid Nights in the Cypress Trees (2002)
• Vermillion – Flattening Mountains and Creating Empires (2002)
• The Breeders
  The Breeders
  The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
  
   – Title TK
  Title TK
  Title TK is the third album from the American alternative rock band The Breeders. The album was released on May 20, 2002 by 4AD in the United Kingdom and distributed by Elektra records in the United States. Title TK was engineered by Steve Albini, who also engineered The Breeders' debut album Pod...
  
  (2002)
• Cinerama
  Cinerama (band)
  Cinerama were a UK indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present.-Career:Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell...
  
   – Torino (2002)
• Cordelia's Dad
  Cordelia's Dad
  Cordelia's Dad is a band from Northampton, Massachusetts that combines folk and punk rock influences and was instrumental in the creation of the genre later to be dubbed "No Depression". The band formed in 1987 and was active until 1998, when the members relocated to different parts of the country...
  
   – What It Is (2002)
• Adrian Crowley
  Adrian Crowley
  Adrian Crowley is a singer–songwriter from Galway but based in Dublin. Despite being born in Sliema, Malta, much of his success has come in Ireland....
  
   – When You Are Here You Are Family (2002)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994...
  
   – Yanqui U.X.O.
  Yanqui U.X.O.
  U.X.O. is the third studio album by the Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It was produced and recorded by musician Steve Albini at the Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois in late 2001...
  
  (2002)
• 54-71
  54-71
  "54-71" is an Hardcore / Experimental / Hip hop music group. Its members are "Horikawa Hiroyuki", "Kawaguchi Kentaro", "Sato Shingo", and "Takada Noriaki". In 1995, Kawaguchi and Sato started their musical activities together and by 1997, the current four members were performing together. 54-71...
  
   – enClorox (2002)
• Zu
  Zu (band)
  - Biography :Hailing from Ostia, a town near Rome, Zu are an atypical trio made of drums, electric bass, baritone saxophone and electronics. Formed in Rome in 1997, they began as composers and players for theatre performances. The band is composed of three members: Luca Mai on baritone saxophone,...
  
   – Igneo (2002)
• Dionysos
  Dionysos (French band)
  Dionysos is a French rock band formed in 1993 in Valence, Drôme; they formed at their lycée. They perform songs in both French and English, and have released six studio albums. They are well known in France for their surrealism and eccentricity....
  
   – Western sous la neige
  Western sous la neige
  Western sous la neige is the fourth studio album by Dionysos, a French rock band, released 5th March 2002 and produced by Steve Albini. The title translates as western in the snow, and encapsulates the surrealist style of the album...
  
  (2002)
• Dead Man Ray
  Dead Man Ray
  Dead Man Ray is a Belgian cult rock band, originating from Berchem near Antwerp. Among its members are Daan Stuyven, Rudy Trouvé , Elko Blijweerdt, Wouter Van Belle and Herman Houbrechts, who was later replaced by drummer Karel De Backer. Their debut Berchem was released in 1998 including the...
  
   – Cago
  Cago
  Cago is the fourth studio album by the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray, released in 2002. The album was produced by Steve Albini and recorded at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, Illinois. The album also derives its title from the name Chicago...
  
  (2002)
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Plastic Fang
  Plastic Fang
  Plastic Fang is the seventh official release by the American punk blues group The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, released on Matador in 2002. "She Said" was released as a single and a music video was filmed for it...
  
  (2002)
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
  
   – Nirvana (2002), (Recorded Four Songs)
• Brick Layer Cake
  Todd Trainer
  Todd Stanford Trainer is the drummer for the band Shellac. He also performs as a solo artist under the name Brick Layer Cake. He previously played drums for the bands Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport, and he played drums with Scout Niblett in 2005....
  
   - Whatchamacallit (2002)

2003

• Sylvan
  Sylvan
  Sylvan, Silvan or Sylvian refers to an association with the woods. Specifically, that which inhabits the wood, is made of tree materials, or comprises the forest itself. The term can also refer to a person who resides in the woods or a spirit of the wood...
  
    – The Ugly Lemon (2003)
• Early Lines – Pure Health (2003)
• Subersive – Antihero (2003)
• Cinerama
  Cinerama (band)
  Cinerama were a UK indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present.-Career:Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell...
  
   – Cinerama Holiday (2003)
• Ring, Cicada – Good Morning Mr. Good (2003)
• The Heavils – Heavils (2003)
• Original Score – Hell House (2003)
• Scout Niblett
  Scout Niblett
  Emma Louise Niblett , better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer and songwriter. Her music is frequently minimal in style, many of her songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which she mostly plays herself. She is known for her intimate live...
  
   – I Am (2003)
• Valina
  Valina
  Valina is an indie, Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore group from Linz / Austria. They released several records on Trost Records and played more than 250 shows in Europe, USA and Russia. Two of their full-length album Vagabond and A Tempo! A Tempo! were recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago...
  
   – Vagabond (2003)
• The Forms
  The Forms (band)
  The Forms are an American indie rock band from Queens, New York, whose style incorporates aspects of math rock, dream pop, and emo. The band members include Alex Tween and Matt Walsh .-History:...
  
   – Icarus
  Icarus (2003 album)
  Icarus is an album by the band The Forms, produced by Steve Albini and released on February 4, 2003.Upon release, Icarus gained generally positive reviews, and critics compared the band favorably to early-emo rock group Sunny Day Real Estate...
  
  (2003)
• Duenow
  Duenow
  Duenow is a Chicago based folk/punk/rap band.The band consists of Zach Duenow on guitar and the harmonica, and Dorothea "Dot" Duenow on drums. Zach and Dot are married, and have been performing together since November 2004...
  
   – If You Could Only See What They Are Doing to You (2003)
• Cheer-Accident
  Cheer-Accident
  Cheer-Accident is an American indie rock ensemble headed by Thymme Jones. Jones took the name of the band from a Hallmark Cards shopping display, and first formed the group in 1981 with singer Jim Drummond and drummer Mike Greenlees.-Biography:...
  
   – Introducing Lemon (2003)
• Songs: Ohia
  Songs: Ohia
  Jason Molina is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Lorain, Ohio. He first came to prominence performing and recording as Songs: Ohia, both in solo projects and with a rotating cast of musicians...
  
   – Magnolia Electric Co. (album)
  Magnolia Electric Co. (album)
  Magnolia Electric Co. is the seventh regular and final album by Songs: Ohia. It was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and released by Secretly Canadian on March 4, 2003. It received critical acclaim according to Metacritic...
  
  (2003)
• Pepito – Migrante (2003)
• Dysrhythmia – Pretest
  Pretest
  Pretest is an album by progressive rock band Dysrhythmia. It is their third full-length overall and their first release on Relapse Records.-Track listing:# "Bastard" – 6:20# "My Relationship" – 2:29# "And Just Go" – 6:16# "Heat Sink" – 4:21...
  
  (2003)
• The Frames
  The Frames
  The Frames are an Irish band based in Dublin. Founded in 1990 by Glen Hansard, the band has been influential in the Dublin rock music scene. The group has released six albums...
  
   – Roads Outgrown (2003)
• Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
  
   – Run to Ruin
  Run to Ruin
  Run to Ruin is the third album by American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia. It was recorded by Steve Albini at Black Box studio in Noyant-la-Gravoyère, France and at Looking Glass studio in New York...
  
  (2003)
• Sonna
  Sonna
  Sonna is a post-rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. The band formed in 1998, and have released two full length albums on label Temporary Residence, of which guitarist deVine is the owner.-Studio albums:...
  
   – Smile and the World Smiles with You
  Smile and the World Smiles with You
  Smile and The World Smiles With You is the second full-length album by the post-rock band Sonna.-Track listing:# Frone Taj# Open Ended# One Most Memorable# The Right Age# Smile# And The World Smiles With You...
  
  (2003)
• Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
  
   – Special One
  Special One
  Special One is an album by the band Cheap Trick. It was released in 2003 to mixed reviews and features the single "Scent of a Woman." It charted for one week, reaching 128 on the album charts.-Track listing:...
  
  (2003)
• The Desert Fathers – Spirituality
  Spirituality
  Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...
  
  (2003)
• F-Minus
  F-Minus
  F-Minus was a hardcore punk band formed in 1995 in Huntington Beach, California. Started by Jen Johnson and Brad Logan. F-Minus was known for their dueling male and female vocals in songs that were sometimes as short as 12 seconds . One of their noted primary influences is Nausea, where the vocal...
  
   – Sweating Blood (2003)
• Transit Belle – Transit Belle (2003)
• F-Minus
  F-Minus
  F-Minus was a hardcore punk band formed in 1995 in Huntington Beach, California. Started by Jen Johnson and Brad Logan. F-Minus was known for their dueling male and female vocals in songs that were sometimes as short as 12 seconds . One of their noted primary influences is Nausea, where the vocal...
  
   – Wake Up Screaming
  Wake Up Screaming
  Wake Up Screaming is the third album from Christian pop punk band Slick Shoes.-Track listing:# "Another Day" # "Constancy"# "Angel"# "Peace of Mind"# "Hide & Seek"# "Lucky"# "Have I Said Too Much?"# "Elisa"# "Don't Mess With Texas"...
  
  (2003)
• Rope – Widow's First Dawn (2003)
• Various Artists – Wig in a Box
  Wig in a Box
  Wig In A Box: Songs from & Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a charity tribute album featuring versions of songs from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch...
  
  (2003)
• Federation X
  Federation X
  Federation X is a rock band, originally formed in Bellingham, Washington, though now shares members between Bellingham and New York, New York. Founded by Ben Wildenhaus , Bill Badgley , and Beau Boyd in 1998. The band has toured the US, and has had two European tours, and a tour of Israel...
  
   – X Patriot (2003)
• Purplene
  Purplene
  Purplene were an indie rock band whose life began in the industrial Australian city of Newcastle in 1996, culminating in the release the 2004 Purplene LP, then disbanding in the spring of 2005 as one of Sydney's most respected rock groups.-Purplene LP:...
  
   – Purplene
  Purplene
  Purplene were an indie rock band whose life began in the industrial Australian city of Newcastle in 1996, culminating in the release the 2004 Purplene LP, then disbanding in the spring of 2005 as one of Sydney's most respected rock groups.-Purplene LP:...
  
  (2003)
• The Hidden
  The Hidden
  The Hidden is an American science fiction film produced and released in 1987 by New Line Cinema. The film was written by Bob Hunt and directed by Jack Sholder...
  
   – Hymnal EP(2003)
• Red Swan – Michigan Blood Games (2003)
• 12Twelve
  12Twelve
  12Twelve is a post-rock band from Barcelona formed by Jaume L. Pantaleón , Javier García , José Roselló and Jens Neumaier .-History:...
  
   – Speritismo (2003)
• Chevreuil – Chateauvallon (2003)
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
   – Bird Seed (2003) (title track only)
• A Whisper in the Noise
  A Whisper in the Noise
  A Whisper in the Noise is a musical project of rock composer West Thordson. Centered in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, the group is known for their dark sound and unique instrumentation, as well as their effective live performances...
  
   – Through the Ides of March (2003)
• Berkeley – Hopes, Prayers and Bubblegum (2003)
• Three Second Kiss - "Music out of Music" (2003)

2004

• Yourcodenameis:Milo
  Yourcodenameis:milo
  -External links:**...
  
   – All Roads to Fault
  All Roads to Fault
  All Roads to Fault is an ep by British experimental post-hardcore band Yourcodenameis:Milo, released in 2004. The most recent edition of the album features music videos for "All Roads to Fault" and "The Problem", which were both released as singles....
  
  (2004)
• Living Things
  Living Things (band)
  Living Things are an American indie rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band, consist of chief provocateur singer/songwriter/guitarist Lillian Berlin and his two siblings Yves Berlin and Joshua "Bosh" Berlin , . Singer Lillian Berlin lyrics and songwriting has been described as " fiercely...
  
   – Black Skies in Broad Daylight (2004)
• mclusky
  Mclusky
  Mclusky , originally known as Best, were a three-piece post-hardcore group formed in Cardiff, Wales. The group consisted of Englishman Andy "Falco" Falkous from Newcastle Upon Tyne, Jonathan Chapple and Jack Egglestone , who replaced previous drummer Matthew Harding in late...
  
   – The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire
  The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire
  The Difference Between Me and You Is that I'm Not on Fire is the third and final album from Welsh indie rock band Mclusky. It was released to positive reviews by Too Pure in 2004...
  
  (2004)
• Neurosis
  Neurosis (band)
  Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
  
   – The Eye of Every Storm
  The Eye of Every Storm
  The Eye of Every Storm is the eighth studio album from the Californian band Neurosis. While still carrying the folk influenced sound that was used extensively on A Sun that Never Sets, this album sees the band returning to the massive and dark guitar textures and sludge metal passages that were...
  
  (2004)
• Bear Claw – Find The Sun (2004)
• Leftöver Crack
  Leftöver Crack
  Leftöver Crack is an American punk rock band formed in 1998, following the breakup of the ska punk band Choking Victim. Primarily playing an amalgam of ska and hardcore punk, they classify themselves as "crack-rocksteady". The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords for CD releases, and...
  
   – Fuck World Trade
  Fuck World Trade
  Fuck World Trade is an album by American punk band Leftöver Crack, released in 2004 on the Alternative Tentacles label.The album continues the band's self-defined status as anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-capitalist, and anarcho-communist. It also contains references to the fact that their first...
  
  (2004)
• Various Artists – How Soon Is Now?: The Songs of the Smiths By... (2004)
• Living Things
  Living Things (band)
  Living Things are an American indie rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band, consist of chief provocateur singer/songwriter/guitarist Lillian Berlin and his two siblings Yves Berlin and Joshua "Bosh" Berlin , . Singer Lillian Berlin lyrics and songwriting has been described as " fiercely...
  
   – I Owe (2004)
• Silkworm
  Silkworm (band)
  Silkworm was an indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005.The members were Tim Midgett, Joel RL Phelps, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist. Phelps left the band in 1994. Matt Kadane of Bedhead and The New Year played keyboards on Italian Platinum and It'll Be Cool...
  
   – It'll Be Cool
  It'll Be Cool
  It'll Be Cool is the ninth and last full-length album released by indie rock band Silkworm before drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a car accident. It is the band's fourth and last album released on Touch and Go Records. The album was recorded by Steve Albini...
  
  (2004)
• Haymarket Riot
  Haymarket Riot (band)
  Haymarket Riot is a Chicago, Illinois based post-punk/rock band that was formed in 1999 by Mike Bennett, Kevin J. Frank, Fred Popolo and Billy Smith. The current line-up consists of Chris Daly, Kevin J...
  
   – Mog (2004)
• Various Artists – Neurot Recordings
  Neurot Recordings
  Neurot Recordings is an independent American record label founded by members of Neurosis and Tribes of Neurot. The label was founded to release the side projects of Neurosis and its members. It has since expanded to a fully functioning label, releasing music from artists...
  
  (2004)
• Various Artists – No Depression: What It Sounds Like, Vol. 1 (2004)
• Shannon Wright
  Shannon Wright
  Shannon Wright is an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.-History:Wright moved from New York City to Chapel Hill, NC after her first band Crowsdell called it quits. While in Chapel Hill, Wright started experimenting and writing solo songs with a borrowed four-track recorder...
  
   – Over the Sun
  Over the Sun
  -Track listing:#Intro/With Closed Eyes – 4:39#Portray - 5:36#Black Little Stray - 6:20#You'll Be the Death - 4:07#Throw a Blanket Over the Sun - 4:25#Avalanche - 4:49#If Only We Could - 4:07#Plea - 4:08#Birds - 4:07...
  
  (2004)
• 0.22 – Patriots (2004)
• Electrelane
  Electrelane
  Electrelane are a British all-female indie rock band, formed in Brighton in 1998 by Verity Susman and Emma Gaze. The band comprised Susman, Gaze, Mia Clarke, and Ros Murray. Their music draws from wide range of influences including Neu!, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and The Velvet Underground...
  
   – The Power Out
  The Power Out
  The Power Out is the second album by English rock group Electrelane. It was released on compact disc and vinyl in 2004 by Too Pure. It was recorded in Chicago, Illinois in early 2003 by Steve Albini. The album's lead single, "On Parade" was a hit on college radio...
  
  (2004)
• Various Artists – TRR50: Thank You (2004)
• The Ex – Turn (2004)
• Amber
  Amber
  Amber is fossilized tree resin , which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents...
  
   – Putting all the pieces together (2004)
• La Habitación Roja – Nuevos Tiempos (2004)
• Plush – Underfed (2004)
• Helmet
  Helmet (band)
  Helmet is an alternative metal band from New York City formed in 1989. Founded by vocalist and lead guitarist Page Hamilton, Helmet has had numerous lineup changes, and Hamilton has been the only constant member....
  
   – Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991-1997)
  Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991-1997)
  Unsung: The Best of Helmet is a compilation album of Helmet in its original form, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Page Hamilton, bassist Henry Bogdan, drummer John Stanier, and guitarists Peter Mengede and Rob Echeverria...
  
  (2004)
• Scout Niblett
  Scout Niblett
  Emma Louise Niblett , better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer and songwriter. Her music is frequently minimal in style, many of her songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which she mostly plays herself. She is known for her intimate live...
  
   – Uptown Top Ranking
  Althea & Donna
  Althea & Donna were a Jamaican reggae singing duo, best known for their 1977 single "Uptown Top Ranking" which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom in 1978.-Career:...
  
  (2004)
• Mono
  Mono (Japanese band)
  Mono are a Japanese post rock band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto , Yoda , Tamaki Kunishi , and Yasunori Takada .Mono have released five studio albums...
  
   – Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
  Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
  Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined is an album by Mono, released in 2004.The album comes with origami paper and instructions on how to fold a paper crane, a reference to the last song on the album "A Thousand Paper Cranes"....
  
  (2004)
• Pixies – Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies (2004)
• Saeta
  Saeta (band)
  Saeta is an indie band formed in 1998 by Matt Menovcik and Lesli Wood . In 1999 Bob Smolenski joined the band and Saeta began playing live performances in Seattle....
  
   – We Are Waiting All for Hope (2004)
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
  
   – With the Lights Out
  With the Lights Out
  With the Lights Out is a box set, containing three CDs and one DVD, of previously rare or unreleased material, including b-sides, demos, rough rehearsal recordings and live recordings, from the American rock band Nirvana. It was released in November 2004...
  
  (2004)
• Wrangler Brutes
  Wrangler Brutes
  The Wrangler Brutes were an American hardcore punk band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California.-History:Wrangler Brutes were formed around vocalist Sam McPheeters , drummer Brooks Headley , guitarist Andy Coronado and...
  
   – Zulu (2004)
• Bright Channel – Bright Channel (2004)
• Phillip Roebuck – One-man band
  One-man band
  A one-man band is a musician who plays a number of musical instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical contraptions. The simplest type of "one-man band" — a singer accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar and harmonica mounted in a metal "harp rack" below the...
  
  (2004)
• Senator;- "United Wire" (2004)

2005

• Living Things
  Living Things (band)
  Living Things are an American indie rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band, consist of chief provocateur singer/songwriter/guitarist Lillian Berlin and his two siblings Yves Berlin and Joshua "Bosh" Berlin , . Singer Lillian Berlin lyrics and songwriting has been described as " fiercely...
  
   – Ahead of the Lions
  Ahead of the Lions
  Ahead of the Lions is an album by rock band Living Things, released on October 4, 2005. The first single is the song "Bom Bom Bom" was featured in a Cingular commercial promoting an iTunes-compatible phone....
  
  (2005)
• Electrelane
  Electrelane
  Electrelane are a British all-female indie rock band, formed in Brighton in 1998 by Verity Susman and Emma Gaze. The band comprised Susman, Gaze, Mia Clarke, and Ros Murray. Their music draws from wide range of influences including Neu!, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and The Velvet Underground...
  
   – Axes
  Axes (album)
  Axes is the third album by English rock group Electrelane.For the mostly instrumental album, Electrelane once again returned to Steve Albini's studio in Chicago. In the first recording session for Axes, the band played through the entire album in one take. This reflected the band's desire to have...
  
  (2005)
• Kash
  KASH
  Kash, Kaš or KASH may refer to:*the Egyptian name of Lower Nubia*the Nubian kingdom of Kush* KASH, the command line interface of the KANT computer algebra system* Slang term among cannabis users for hashish covered with kief...
  
   – Beauty Is Everywhere/Kash (2005)
• High on Fire
  High on Fire
  High on Fire is a stoner metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, previously played guitar for the influential stoner doom band Sleep.-History:...
  
   – Blessed Black Wings
  Blessed Black Wings
  Blessed Black Wings is the critically acclaimed third album from High on Fire. The vinyl version was released as a double LP and contains a bonus track, "Rapid Fire," originally by Judas Priest....
  
  (2005)
• Terry Stamp – Bootlace Johnnie & The Ninety-Nines (2005)
• The Ponys – Celebration Castle
  Celebration Castle
  Celebration Castle is the second album by American indie/garage rock band, The Ponys. The band began recording in late 2004 and were finished in four days...
  
  (2005)
• Gogol Bordello
  Gogol Bordello
  Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music...
  
   – East Infection
  East Infection
  East Infection is an EP by Gogol Bordello released in 2005 by Rubric Records. Released prior to the album Gypsy Punks sessions, it consists of leftover tracks from that album's sessions....
  
  (2005)
• The Hidden – Smash to Ashes (2005)
• Gogol Bordello
  Gogol Bordello
  Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music...
  
   – Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike (2005)
• Wonderful Smith
  Wonderful Smith
  Wonderful Smith was an African-American comedian from Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He was most notable for his routine, "Hello, Mr. President" which was an imaginary conversation with American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that lampooned the New Deal and World War II preparations...
  
   – Hello, It's Wonderful (2005)
• Jaks – Here Lies the Body of Jaks (2005)
• Scout Niblett
  Scout Niblett
  Emma Louise Niblett , better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer and songwriter. Her music is frequently minimal in style, many of her songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which she mostly plays herself. She is known for her intimate live...
  
   – Kidnapped by Neptune (2005)
• The Patsys – On The 13th Kick (2005)
• Make Believe
  Make Believe (band)
  Make Believe is an indie rock band, initially formed as a touring version of Joan of Arc. The band was initially composed of singer Tim Kinsella, guitarist Sam Zurick, bassist Bobby Burg, and drummer/keyboardist Nate Kinsella. After 3 months of touring as Joan Of Arc the quartet returned home and...
  
   – Shock of Being (2005)
• Bellini
  Bellini (band)
  Bellini is an international indie rock/math rock band, composed of members from Girls Against Boys, Soulside, Don Caballero and Uzeda. This band was named after the Italian composer, Vincenzo Bellini .-Members:*Giovanna Cacciola - vocals...
  
   – Small Stones (2005)
• Magnolia Electric Co – What Comes After the Blues
  What Comes After the Blues
  -Personnel:* Jason Molina - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals* Jennie Benford - acoustic guitar, vocals* Mike Brenner - steel guitar* Jim Grabowski - piano, mellotron* Jason Groth - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals...
  
  (2005)
• Cinerama
  Cinerama (band)
  Cinerama were a UK indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present.-Career:Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell...
  
   – Don't Touch That Dial (2005)
• Spy
  Spy (band)
  Spy are a rock band that hail from Atlanta, Georgia. They released their debut album in 2005, which was produced by Steve Albini. The album was a vinyl only release, but is also available in its entirety for free on their website. -External links:**...
  
   – Spy (2005)
• From Fiction – Bloodwork (2005)
• Boxes – Bad Blood (2005)
• Die! Die! Die!
  Die! Die! Die!
  Die! Die! Die! is a noise pop/punk three-piece from Dunedin, New Zealand, formed in late 2003 and signed to Flying Nun Records.Their self-titled album Die! Die! Die! was released in 2005 in New Zealand, with an international release soon after. It was recorded in Chicago's Electrical Audio by...
  
   -Die! Die! Die!
  Die! Die! Die! (album)
  Die! Die! Die! is the debut full-length album by New Zealand trio Die! Die! Die!.It was recorded and mixed in Chicago at Electrical Audio by Steve Albini between 21 and 24 March 2005...
  
  (2005)
• Loraxx – Selfs (2005)

2006

• This Moment in Black History – It Takes a Nation of Assholes to Hold Us Back (2006)
• Jinx Titanic
  Jinx Titanic
  John Patrick Kamys, better known by his stage name Jinx Titanic is an American composer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and author, best known for his outrageous stage persona, and image as the beer-swilling, cigar-smoking, sexually-candid, lead singer of the eponymous rock band...
  
   – Stuporstardom! (2006)
• The Cape May
  The Cape May
  The Cape May are a musical act from Calgary, Alberta. Formed in 2003 by Clinton St. John and Jeff Macleod the band released their first album Central City May Rise Again on Flemish Eye in 2005. The band's lineup is now rounded out by multi-instrumentalist Matt Flegel...
  
   – Glass Mountain Roads
  Glass Mountain Roads
  Glass Mountain Roads is the second album by The Cape May, released by Flemish Eye in 2006. The album was recorded by Steve Albini and the cover art was done by fellow musician Chad VanGaalen.-Track listing:# Spring Flight To The Land Of Fire...
  
  (2006)
• Cougars
  Cougars
  Cougars is a Chicago-based rock band signed to the New York-based label Go-Kart Records.The Cougars' music is often compared to that of Rocket from the Crypt...
  
   – Pillow Talk
  Pillow Talk (album)
  Pillow Talk – Miki Sings the R&B Classics is the eighth studio album by American R&B singer Miki Howard released in 2006 under Shanachie Records. On this album, Howard sings her interpretations of favorite R&B classic songs. The album peaked at No...
  
  (2006)
• Sparrklejet – Beyond the Beyond (2006)
• Two Minute Warning – Short Stories On Super-Eight (2006)
• Mise en Place – Innit (2006)
• Mono
  Mono (Japanese band)
  Mono are a Japanese post rock band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto , Yoda , Tamaki Kunishi , and Yasunori Takada .Mono have released five studio albums...
  
   – You Are There (2006)
• New Grenada
  New Grenada (band)
  New Grenada is an American indie rock band formed in Royal Oak, Michigan in 2001. The current lineup consists of John Nelson , Dave Melkonian and Monday Busque ....
  
   – Modern Problems (2006)
• Zao – The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
  The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
  The Fear is What Keeps Us Here is the eighth full length album by metalcore band Zao. It was released on June 13, 2006 on Ferret Records in the US and on June 12, 2006 in Europe. The album showcases the addition of drummer Jeff Gretz and bassist Martin Lunn...
  
  (2006)
• Joanna Newsom
  Joanna Newsom
  Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
  
   – Ys (2006)
• 12Twelve
  12Twelve
  12Twelve is a post-rock band from Barcelona formed by Jaume L. Pantaleón , Javier García , José Roselló and Jens Neumaier .-History:...
  
   – L'Univers
  L'Univers
  L'Univers was a nineteenth-century French Roman Catholic daily newspaper that took a strongly ultramontane position. It was edited by Louis Veuillot. In 1833 it merged with La Tribune Catholique.-External links:...
  
  (2006)
• Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
  
   – On Leaving
  On Leaving
  On Leaving is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia. It was released on September 11, 2006 on Fat Cat Records. It was recorded by Steve Albini and produced by Nastasia, Kennan Gudjonsson, and Albini...
  
  (2006)
• The Time Of The Assassins
  The Time of the Assassins
  - Personnel :*Nikolai Fraiture: guitar, vocals, electric bass, double bass , harmonica *Joel Cadbury: steel guitar *Jamie McDonald: additional guitar and solo *Brett Shaw: drums on all tracks except 6 and 10...
  
   – Awake In Slumberland (2006)
• The Hidden
  The Hidden
  The Hidden is an American science fiction film produced and released in 1987 by New Line Cinema. The film was written by Bob Hunt and directed by Jack Sholder...
  
   – Winged Wolves (2006)
• Made Out of Babies
  Made Out of Babies
  -Biography:Drawing equally from noise-rock bands like The Jesus Lizard and post-metal bands like Isis, the band developed a following after the release of their debut album, Trophy. Their first two albums were released by Neurot Recordings, the label of post-metal and post-rock bands like Isis,...
  
   – Coward (2006)
• Marty Casey and Lovehammers
  Lovehammers
  Lovehammers is a Chicago-based, Alternative rock band. Their sound is best described as a combination of Pop-punk, and Grunge influences.Since 1997, Lovehammers have independently released five full-length albums and EPs and one major label LP. For their self-titled major label debut , they were...
  
   – Marty Casey and Lovehammers (album)
  Marty Casey and Lovehammers (album)
  Marty Casey & Lovehammers is the self-titled, major label debut album for Rock Star: INXS runner-up Marty Casey's band, Lovehammers. The album consists primarily of songs from the Lovehammers' previous three independent albums, remixed and remastered: "Hold On", "Rain on the Brain", "The Tunnel",...
  
  
• Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
  
   – Rockford
  Rockford (album)
  -Singles:* "Perfect Stranger* "If It Takes A Lifetime"* "Come On, Come On, Come On" .-Outtakes:* "Mando Ragga" * "What's In It For You"...
  
  (2006)
• Born Again Floozies – 7 Deadly Sinners (2006)
• Living Things
  Living Things (band)
  Living Things are an American indie rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band, consist of chief provocateur singer/songwriter/guitarist Lillian Berlin and his two siblings Yves Berlin and Joshua "Bosh" Berlin , . Singer Lillian Berlin lyrics and songwriting has been described as " fiercely...
  
   – Bom Bom Bom (single) (2006)
• Chevreuil – (((Capoëira))) (2006)
• Chevreuil – Science
  Science
  Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
  
  (2006)
• The Sadies
  The Sadies
  The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
  
   – Live Vol.1 (2006)
• Gasoline Heart – You Know Who You Are
  You Know Who You Are
  You Know Who You Are is the first solo album by Nick Gilder, released in 1977 on Chrysalis Records.-Side A:# "All Across the Nation " – 4:08# "Backstreet Noise" – 3:03# "Rated X" – 3:06# "Poor Boy" – 3:00# "Genevieve" – 3:23...
  
  (2006)
• Phillip Roebuck – Fever Pitch
  Fever Pitch
  Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is the title of a 1992 autobiographical book by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films: Fever Pitch was released in 1997, and Fever Pitch in 2005...
  
  (2006)
• Uzeda
  Uzeda
  Uzeda is a Sicilian math rock group founded in 1987, consisting of lead singer Giovanna Cacciola, guitarists Agostino Tilotta and Giovanni Nicosia, bassist Raffaele Gulisano and drummer Davide Oliveri. Steve Albini recorded three of their records...
  
   – Stella (2006)
• Childproof
  Childproof
  Childproofing is the act of making an environment or object relatively safe for children. The act of childproofing reduces risks to a level considered acceptable by a society, an institution, or, for example, to specific parents. Childproofing may include restriction of children to safe areas or...
  
   – Childproof
  Childproof
  Childproofing is the act of making an environment or object relatively safe for children. The act of childproofing reduces risks to a level considered acceptable by a society, an institution, or, for example, to specific parents. Childproofing may include restriction of children to safe areas or...
  
  (2006)

2007

• Second Echo
• Iggy & the Stooges – The Weirdness
  The Weirdness
  The Weirdness is the fourth studio album by influential American hard rock band The Stooges.The album features founding members Iggy Pop , Ron Asheton , and Scott Asheton along with new band member Mike Watt and returning guest musician Steve Mackay It...
  
  (2007)
• Fun – Zu-Pa!
• Orchid Trip – Orchid Trip
• Alamos – Captain Indifferent says, "Whatever"
• Chingalera – In the Shadow of the Black Palm Tree
• Moutheater
  Moutheater
  Moutheater is a band heavily influenced by punk, noise rock, metal, and post-punk from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Their debut 7 inch entitled "Lot Lizard" was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, IL during the summer of 2007 and included artwork by Dwid Hellion of...
  
   – Lot Lizard
• stuffy/the fuses
  Stuffy/the fuses
  - Biography :The band was formed by Stephen Gilchrist who recorded the band's debut album Join Me Or Die before actually getting a complete line up together. The core line up consisting of Jon Fuse , Jen Fuse , and stuffy formed in early 2003...
  
   – Angels Are Ace
• Hot Little Rocket
  Hot Little Rocket
  Hot Little Rocket was a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1998 and based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.-History:Hot Little Rocket formed in 1998, the band released its debut EP, Laika, in 2000, and followed up with Danish Documentary the following year...
  
  , How to Lose Everything
• Shellac
  Shellac (band)
  Shellac is an American group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer...
  
   – Excellent Italian Greyhound
  Excellent Italian Greyhound
  Excellent Italian Greyhound is the title of Shellac's fourth album. It was released on June 5, 2007. The album's title is a reference to drummer Todd Trainer's Italian Greyhound, Uffizi. The album was recorded at Electrical Audio and mastered at Abbey Road by Steve Rooke. The drawings for Excellent...
  
  (2007)
• Weedeater
  Weedeater (band)
  Weedeater is a sludge metal band formed in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1997 with members from the recently defunct Buzzov•en. The band has released four full length albums...
  
   – God Luck and Good Speed
• A Whisper In The Noise – Dry Land
• Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
  
   & Jim White
  Jim White (drummer)
  Jim White is an Australian drummer . He is the drummer for the Dirty Three, a band formed in Melbourne, but he has also played with a number of other groups, including:*Tren Brothers, consisting of Jim White and Mick Turner, guitarist of the Dirty Three....
  
   – You Follow Me
  You Follow Me
  You Follow Me is a collaborative studio album between American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia and Australian drummer Jim White. The album was released in Europe and Australia on 28 May 2007 and in the United States and Canada on 14 August 2007 and was the second Nastasia album released by...
  
  
• The Conformists – Three Hundred (2007)
• Om
  Om (band)
  Om is a duo formed in 2003 by the rhythm section of the disbanded Stoner doom metal band Sleep. The band's first three albums feature Al Cisneros on vocals and bass and Chris Hakius on drums. Their music is similar in structure to Tibetan chanting....
  
  - Pilgrimage
  Pilgrimage (Om album)
  Pilgrimage is the third studio album by the band Om. It is the band's first release for the Southern Lord label. It was recorded at Electrical Audio by Steve Albini.-Track listing:#"Pilgrimage" – 10:33#"Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead" – 5:50...
  
  (2007)
• Valina
  Valina
  Valina is an indie, Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore group from Linz / Austria. They released several records on Trost Records and played more than 250 shows in Europe, USA and Russia. Two of their full-length album Vagabond and A Tempo! A Tempo! were recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago...
  
   – a tempo! a tempo!
  A tempo! a tempo!
  a tempo! a tempo! is the third full-length album by the Austrian band Valina, recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini. The album was released in Europe in the Spring of 2008 by Trost Records and was released throughout the United States on April 14, 2009 by Joyful Noise Recordings.-Track...
  
  (2007)
• Scout Niblett
  Scout Niblett
  Emma Louise Niblett , better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer and songwriter. Her music is frequently minimal in style, many of her songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which she mostly plays herself. She is known for her intimate live...
  
   – This Fool Can Die Now (2007)
• The Judas Goats- Cold Creases E.P. (2007)
• The Forms- st (2007)
• Stinking Lizaveta
  Stinking Lizaveta
  Stinking Lizaveta is a power trio from Philadelphia that plays heavy instrumental rock. MusicMight categorizes them as "doom jazz". Their 1996 debut album was recorded by Steve Albini. Albini was so impressed by them, he brought them to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he co-curated in 2004...
  
  - Scream of the Iron Iconoclast
  Scream of the Iron Iconoclast
  Scream of the Iron Iconoclast is the fifth studio album by the Philadelphia band Stinking Lizaveta.-Track listing:# "Gravitas" - 2:43# "Scream of the Iron Iconoclast" - 3:40# "To the Sun" - 4:27# "Secrets of the Past" - 5:07...
  
   (2007)
• Phonovectra- Too Young To Die (2007)
• Neurosis
  Neurosis (band)
  Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
  
   – Given to the Rising
  Given to the Rising
  Given to the Rising is the ninth studio album from the Oakland, California band Neurosis, released on June 5, 2007. The album is available in a standard jewel case, a limited-edition digipak, and a limited-edition double LP, all with the same track list. Decibel Magazine listed Given to the Rising...
  
  (2007)
• Bear Claw – Slow Speed: Deep Owls (2007)

2008

• Esquimaux – Tiger
• The Breeders
  The Breeders
  The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
  
   – Mountain Battles
  Mountain Battles
  Mountain Battles is the fourth album from the American alternative rock band The Breeders. The album was released on April 7, 2008 by 4AD in the United Kingdom and April 8, 2008 in the United States....
  
  
• My Disco
  My Disco
  My Disco is an Australian rock band.-Background:Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2003, their first public appearance was performed at The Good Morning Captain, a cafe in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne...
  
   – Paradise
• Over Vert – Gagging and Swallowing
• Popular Workshop – We're Alive And We're Not Alone
• Scott Weiland
  Scott Weiland
  Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
  
   – Happy in Galoshes
• The Pale Figures – Memphis and Chicago
• Room 101 – The Pitch
• Trash Talk
  Trash Talk (band)
  Trash Talk is an American hardcore punk band from Sacramento, California, formed in 2005. Trash Talk combines hardcore punk with the aggression of power violence...
  
   – Trash Talk
• The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four to more varied forms...
  
   – El Rey
  El Rey (The Wedding Present album)
  El Rey is the eighth studio album by The Wedding Present. It was released in the US on May 20, 2008, by Manifesto Records, and on May 26, 2008, in the UK by Vibrant Records/Pinnacle Records. The album is the band's first album since 2005's Take Fountain...
  
  
• Haymarket Riot
  Haymarket Riot (band)
  Haymarket Riot is a Chicago, Illinois based post-punk/rock band that was formed in 1999 by Mike Bennett, Kevin J. Frank, Fred Popolo and Billy Smith. The current line-up consists of Chris Daly, Kevin J...
  
   – Endless Bummer
• 54-71
  54-71
  "54-71" is an Hardcore / Experimental / Hip hop music group. Its members are "Horikawa Hiroyuki", "Kawaguchi Kentaro", "Sato Shingo", and "Takada Noriaki". In 1995, Kawaguchi and Sato started their musical activities together and by 1997, the current four members were performing together. 54-71...
  
   – I'm not fine thank you, and you?
• Three second kiss – Long Distance Runner
• Vitamin X
  Vitamin X
  Vitamin X or VX is a hardcore punk and thrashcore band from Amsterdam, Netherlands that was formed in 1997. They are named as one of the best and most important hardcore punk bands going. Their unique sound is characterized by furious hardcore punk mixed with turbo-charged thrash, 70's rock riffage...
  
   – Full Scale Assault
• Ranheim – I Don't Like The Smiths EP
• Ranheim – Norwegian Wood
• Precore – Sick
• Born Again Floozies – street music, 13 Rebellions and a Song of Consolation
• The Provocative Whites – EVOLYM (released April 2009)

2009

• Mono
  Mono (Japanese band)
  Mono are a Japanese post rock band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto , Yoda , Tamaki Kunishi , and Yasunori Takada .Mono have released five studio albums...
  
   – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
  Hymn to the Immortal Wind
  -Personnel:Mono* Takaakira "Taka" Goto - electric guitars* Tamaki Kunishi - bass guitar, piano, harpsichord, glockenspiel* Yasunori Takada - drums, tympani, cymbals, glockenspiel* Yoda - electric guitars, Hammond B3 organProduction...
  
  
• Manic Street Preachers
  Manic Street Preachers
  Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
  
   – Journal For Plague Lovers
  Journal for Plague Lovers
  Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 18 May 2009, and features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who vanished on 1 February 1995, and was presumed deceased in 2008. It is the only Manic Street Preachers album...
  
  
• Umphrey's McGee
  Umphrey's McGee
  Umphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation", or "improg" ....
  
   – Mantis
  Mantis (album)
  - Level 1 :- Level 2 :- Level 3 :- Level 4 :- Level 5 :- Level 6 :- Level 7 :- Level 8 :- Level 9 :The entire set from the 1/19 CD release show at the Vic Theatre is also included in level 9.- Album :- Personnel :...
  
  
• Stella Peel – Stella Peel
• Jarvis Cocker
  Jarvis Cocker
  Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
  
   – Further Complications
  Further Complications
  -Personnel:*Jarvis Cocker – vocals, guitar, synthesiser, fire bell, bass guitar, electric mandolin*Steve Mackey – bass guitar*Ross Orton – drums, timpani*Simon Stafford – keyboards, backing vocals, guitar, synthesiser...
  
  
• Minto – Lay It On Me
• Delby L – Nine Skies
• The Thing
  The Thing (jazz band)
  The Thing is a Norwegian/Swedish jazz band, consisting of Mats Gustafsson , Ingebrigt Håker Flaten , and Paal Nilssen-Love ....
  
   – Bag It!
• PRE
  Pre (band)
  Pre, often written as PRE, is a British noise rock band on Skin Graft Records and Lovepump United. It is based in London and was formed around 2005 with singer Akiko Matsuura, known for taking the stage in only her underwear and extensive stage diving. Pre includes former members of Todd and Seafood...
  
   – Hope Freaks
• Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine
• Drug Mountain – Drug Mountain
• Motorpsycho
  Motorpsycho
  Motorpsycho is a band from Trondheim, Norway. Their music can generally be defined as psychedelic rock, but they also mix in elements from metal, jazz, rock, pop and many other musical styles. The members of the band are Bent Sæther , Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan and Kenneth Kapstad...
  
   – Child of the Future
  Child of the Future
  Child of the Future is the name of the thirteenth full length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho that was released on August 7, 2009, via Rune Grammofon and Stickman Records...
  
  
• Berri Txarrak
  Berri Txarrak
  Berri Txarrak is a Basque rock power trio whose songs are sung in Basque. It was founded in 1994 in Lekunberri, Navarre, Spain.-History:...
  
   – Payola
  Payola
  Payola, in the American music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. Under U.S...
  
  
• Om
  Om (band)
  Om is a duo formed in 2003 by the rhythm section of the disbanded Stoner doom metal band Sleep. The band's first three albums feature Al Cisneros on vocals and bass and Chris Hakius on drums. Their music is similar in structure to Tibetan chanting....
  
   – God Is Good
  God Is Good
  God Is Good is the fourth studio album by the band Om. It was recorded at Electrical Audio by Steve Albini and is the first studio album by Om to feature the new drummer Emil Amos.-Track listing:#"Thebes" – 19:09...
  
  
• Pixies – Minotaur (box set of Pixies previous albums)
• Tunica Dartos – Sound Buffet (released January 2011)
• Årabrot
  Årabrot
  - Biography :Since starting out in 2001, Årabrot’s main core has been Kjetil Nernes and Vidar Evensen , and in recent years noise artist Stian Skagen has been a regular on-and-off member of the band...
  
   – The Brother Seed
• Kingskin – Slug
• Leila Adu – Dark Joan
• The Marder – Men's Ruin EP

2010

• Scout Niblett
  Scout Niblett
  Emma Louise Niblett , better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer and songwriter. Her music is frequently minimal in style, many of her songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which she mostly plays herself. She is known for her intimate live...
  
   – The Calcination of Scout Niblett
• Bella Clava – The Craic
• The Ex – Catch My Shoe
  Catch My Shoe
  Catch My Shoe is an album by Dutch anarchist band The Ex. It is the band's first record after the departure of their original vocalist G.W. Sok and features Arnold de Boer, from the band Zea, on vocals, guitar and keyboard...
  
  
• Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia
  Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
  
   – Outlaster
  Outlaster
  Outlaster is the fifth studio album recorded by American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia. It was released on June 7, 2010 internationally and June 22, 2010 in the United States by Fat Cat Records ....
  
  
• The Bats Pajamas – The Bats Pajamas
• Grandfather – Why I'd Try
• My Disco
  My Disco
  My Disco is an Australian rock band.-Background:Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2003, their first public appearance was performed at The Good Morning Captain, a cafe in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne...
  
   – Little Joy
• The Conformists – None Hundred
• Avitia – Windowsmashers and Safecrackers

2011

• The Gary – El Camino
• Let's Wrestle
  Let's Wrestle
  Let's Wrestle are an English indie rock band based in London. The band consists of Wesley Patrick Gonzalez , Sam Pillay , and Darkus Bishop .- History :...
  
   – Nursing Home
• Senium – Such Progress
• Azimyth – Azimyth
• Bear Claw – Refuse This Gift
• The Crooked Fiddle Band – Overgrown Tales
• Sleepwalks – The Milk Has Gone Sour