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Abunai!

Psychedelic drone rock band from Boston. They have a sort of folksy approach to psychedelic rock that is very cool.

Alien Sex Fiend

Weird punk/dance music from England.

Alchemysts

Psychedelic alternative rock with some great guitar work.

Ambient Temple of Imkagination

Very cool experimental and ambient electronic excursions (get MP3s at MP3.COM).

Bardo Pond

Its a droning wall of sound from Philadelphia.

Bauhaus

One of the first bands to take punk to the darkside, as in gothically inclined depressing tunes such as Bela Lugosi's Dead.

Beastie Boys

White boy rappers who expanded on their sound and became musicians as well as rappers.

Beck

Its countrified soul punk hip hop.

Big Black

Defunct Chicago punk band that made Steve Alibini the great record producer that he is now.

Bongwater

Folksy punk rock from musical master Kramer featuring the incredible voice of Anne Magnuson.

Boredoms

Japanese industrial noise band that makes pure audio chaos.

Butthole Surfers

The best band of the 80s and early 90s, these Austin based punk rockers redefined what the limits were.

Camper Van Beethoven

Countrified punk featuring some truly great song writing.

Eugene Chadbourne

If punkabilly had a father, Eugene may just be it, but the high point of any Eugene show has to be the electric rake.

Chrome

A highly underrated punk band from the late 70s that spawned the solo career of guitar grinding Helios Creed.

Cop Shoot Cop

Blues influenced industrial punk music.

Cows

straight ahead punk rock from the same American midwest that gave us Husker Du and the Replacements.

Helios Creed

Helios' guitar playing makes guitars wish for the days of Hendrix and his matches while the audience reaches for something to stop the flow of blood from their ears.

Daddy Longhead

Members of Texas greats Scratch Acid and the Butthole Surfers get together for southern fried punk rock.

Dinosaur Jr.

Extremely loud poppy alternative rock. Most of their stuff retains a raw and unfinished sound, but that may just be bad mixing.

Dread Zeppelin

An Elvis impersonator singing classic rock covers reggae style. Good for more than a laugh though as they are quite good at translating rock into reggae.

Critters Buggin'

Its John Zorn on downers. A mellower form of punk influenced jazz.

Crystal Method

Mellow and trippy techno music.

Ed Hall

Just like there is no Pink Floyd, there is also no Ed Hall, except in the form of a bunch of guys who play some pretty good Texas style punk rock.

Flaming Lips

As poppy as punk rock can get and still be considered alternative. Can you believe they once played on Beverly Hills 90210?!?!

Flying Saucer Attack

Feedback filled drone rock. Imagine Jesus and Mary Chain meets Spacemen 3.

Foetus

Clint Ruin and company in the most prolific industrial noise band ever (especially if you include stuff not released under the Foetus name).

Friends of Dean Martinez

Lounge music for the Pulp Fiction mind set.

Fu Manchu

Very good biker/stoner rock.

Gravitar

Lots of long and harsh somewhat psychedelic guitar jams.

Husker Du

Zen Arcade remains one of the great punk albums of all time.

Jesus Lizard

From the ashes of Scratch Acid comes this good but not great punk band.

Killing Joke

Depending on which album you listen to, they have evolved from punk rock to pop/dance and back again. Get the early stuff, avoid the middle period, and take your chances with the later stuff.

King Carcass

An obscure and defunct band from Philadelphia that crossed King Crimson and punk to make some really good tunes.

King Crimson

Through 30 years and several incarnations, Crimson continues to fly the progressive rock banner.

King Missile

Punk rock with a sense of humor, however twisted it may be.

Lard

Ever wonder what happened to Jello Biafra? Check him out post Dead Kennedies teaming up with Alien Jourgensen of Ministry.

Lockgroove

Spacemen 3 on speed type psychedelic rock. They put on a great live show that promotes audience participation.

The Lothars

Droney electronic psychedelia band from Boston featuring theremin(s).

Love and Rockets

Post Bauhuas nihilistic punk/pop rock.

Lubricated Goat

Punk rock, New Zealand style.

Caspar Brotzmann Massaker

Simply the loudest, harshest, and most unforgiving form of guitar music ever. Caspar plays the guitar like a chainsaw cuts a tree and the 10 minute plus dronefests that result are just plain good.

Meat Puppets

Half punk, half country, all good.

Medea Connection

Hard and heavy stoner rock from Boston.

Mercury Rev

Another post-Pink Floyd style trippy rock band with some very cool tunes.

Roger Miller

Not the King of the Road Roger Miller, although he does cover that song, this Roger Miller is the one from Mission of Burma, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, No Man, & Binary System. Does things with a piano and a tape loop that sends shivers up and down your spine.

Ministry

Sometimes its dance, sometimes its industrial, sometimes its heavy/speed metal, but most of it is good.

Moby

Techno for the punk rocker, his stuff has a definite edge to it.

Mogwai

Guitar driven drone rock.

Mondo Topless

Philadelphia based garage punk band. If you liked the Austin Powers soundtrack, then check them out.

Monster Magnet

New Jersey makes up for giving us the Boss by also giving us one of the best stoner rock bands on the planet today -- Monster Magnet.

Roy Montgomery

Interesting and somewhat unusual guitar and effects drones. He also does a lot of collaborations, highlighted by his work with Bardo Pond members under the name Hash Jar Tempo.

Morphine

Blues inspired lounge music for the 90s with lots of sax, bass, and deep, almost mesmerizing vocals by Mark Sandman. On sad note, Mark passed away in 1999 and the future of Morphine is up in the air.

Music Tapes

Imagine Eugene Chadbourne joining the Flaming Lips for some musical experimentation.

Nebula

Fu Manchu offshoot, cool stoner rock.

Negativland

San Francisco has inspired many strange things. Counter-culture performance art group Negativland is one of the better strange things.

No Means No

A now defunct canadian punk rock band that put out some truly great songs in the lates 80s and early 90s.

P

Its Johnny Depp with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers playing southern rock tunes and an ABBA cover.

Pain Teens

More Texas based punk rock, but with a very dark and twisted bent.

Pink Floyd

'Nuff said.

The Pins

Psychedelic rock band from Minnesota.

Pixies

Alternative rock with some shining moments of originality.

Pressurehed

Sometimes trippy psychedelic, sometimes electronic experimental, sometimes straight ahead rock. Always good.

Primal Scream

If Pink Floyd started playing music today, this is what they might just sound like.

Prodigy

Any band with the cajones to release a song called Smack my Bitch Up had better be good. And their mix of punk and techno is good.

Pussy Galore

Named after a James Bond villainess (come on, you knew that), this defunct band gave rise to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion as well as as a host of other bands.

Radiohead

This is pop rock music at its best, with catchy tunes and good guitar solos. They also make cool videos.

Rollins Band

Henry Rollins fronted the great punk rock band Black Flag and after the band split up, he is still at it with his own band.

Scratch Acid

Just one album and two eps in the 80s, but those 28 songs are some great ones. Several former members moved on to Jesus Lizard.

Skinny Puppy

Gothic punk for the techno inclined.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Blues and punk mixed together.

Sonic Youth

Loud, feedback driven, sometimes trippy rock music.

Sons of Otis

Canadian stoner rock.

Soul Coughing

A band in the mold of Devo. They're not afraid to be weird.

Spacemen 3

The spirit of the 60s lives on in the trippy musical meanderings of Spacemen 3.

Spiritualized

The spirit of the 60s lives on in the trippy musical meanderings of Spiritualized.

Stereolab

A mellow yet trippy pop band with a talent for writing catchy melodies.

Substitute

The best band I've come across to not have any official releases. They have an experimental psychedelic electtronic sound. Check them out at MP3.COM.

Sugar

After Husker Du, Bob Mould did some solo stuff and formed Sugar a pop/punk band still trying to match Husker Du.

Sun Ra

Jazz great who was into psychedelic musical explorations long before anyone else.

The Tadpoles

Trippy psychedelic rock. Too bad they broke up.

They Might Be Giants

Pop music with a sense of humor and an accordian.

Tuatara

A collection of people from REM, Critters Buggin' and other bands get together to create some upbeat reggae style alternative music.

Upsilon Acrux

King Crimson meets chaos theory.

The Wellwater Conspiracy

60s psychedelic pop from members of Monster Magnet and Sound Garden.

Whale

First formed as a Red Hot Chili Peppers clone band, they went on to create some really cool original pop/punk tunes.

Frank Zappa

'Nuff said.

John Zorn

Jazz meets punk rock and windows shatter everywhere as a result. My favorite John Zorn quote (from a show at The Painted Bride in the early 90s): If it's too loud, then you're too old.