Pavement was an American indie rock band formed by Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg in the 1990s. The band achieved a significant cult following, and their music has been a major influence on many bands of the late 1990s and beyond.

Pavement is considered one of the first modern rock bands to achieve a degree of success without the support of a major label. Read more on Wikipedia

Pavement’s Albums

Pavement - Summer Babe

The Accordian Death Squad is an accordion-laden band from Charlottesville, Virginia that includes cello, piano, violins, vocals.

Their songs move from klezmer to gypsy “standards”. They are the resident band of a Charlottesville cirkus. In their own words, they play “ratsylvanian jipsee muzic.”

Deerhoof is a San Francisco band classified as indie rock, due to their having been on an indie rock label (Kill Rock Stars) for the entirety of their career. The unconventional nature of Deerhoof’s music makes genre identification difficult. Read more on Wikipedia

Albums by Deerhoof

Deerhoof “Dummy Discards a Heart”

Skeletonbreath is a Brooklyn, New York based Instrumental Rock trio. They play dark, technical, melodic music that has been self-described as “Transylvanian Surf Rock” and “Halloween party music.” Read more on Wikipedia

Skeletonbreath has played several shows at the Lake View House (Summit, NY) since 2005.

Skeletonbreath’s Website Website and MySpace site

Skeletonbreath - Do The Lazy Rabbit

The Zydepunks is an ambiguously European folk-punk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 2003, they play a wide variety of music, including Cajun, Zydeco, Eastern European music, and Punk Rock. Their instrumentation includes violin, accordion, electric bass guitar, and drums.  The Zydepunks appeared at the Lake View House (Summit, NY) in the Summer of 2006.

The Zydepunks - Bwamba’s Rambles

Show of Hands is an underground folk band from England … read more

Show of Hands website

Show of Hands - Roots (the Stand Up Bass player “rocks”)

Formed in Dayton, Ohio in the early 1980s, Guided by Voices began their career as a bar band working the local scene. As lineups and day-jobs shifted, however, song-writer Robert Pollard moved the band towards a studio-only orientation. Guided by Voices’ recording career began with a stream of self-financed, independent releases including Devil Between My Toes, Sandbox, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia, and Same Place The Fly Got Smashed. With only a few hundred copies of each album being pressed, these tended to circulate only among the band members’ family and friends…Read More

Albums by GbV

Game of Pricks

fIREHOSE was an alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt (bass, vocals), Ed Crawford (guitar, vocals), and George Hurley (drums).

fIREHOSE was formed in 1986 after the death of D. Boon brought an end to Minutemen. Watt and Hurley teamed up with the then 22-year-old Crawford, a guitarist and Minutemen fanatic. Crawford was from Ohio, and started the band when he found Watt’s phone number in the phone book and called him, saying he wanted to play with Mike and George in California.

Albums by fIREHOSE

Riddle of the Eighties

One of the most radical rock bands of the 60s, and certainly one of the loudest, the
MC5 solidified their anti-establishment reputation by being the only band to agree to play at a festival organized to coincide with the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Albums by MC5

MC5 - Ramblin Rose

The Dirtbombs are a garage punk band based in metro Detroit, Michigan, notable for blending diverse influences such as garage rock, punk rock and soul while featuring a dual bass guitar, dual drum and guitar lineup. The Dirtbombs were formed by Mick Collins (of the influential garage punk band (The Gories) as a side project and started recording songs by 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Albums by the Dirtbombs

The Dirtbombs website

Candy Ass