Pulp
Beck
Wilco
Sloan
Metric
Weezer
Hayden
Pinback
Le Tigre
The Who
Rilo Kiley
Sigur Ros
Goldfrapp
The Shins
Adam Ant
Bloc Party
The Pixies
Pavement
The Thrills
Radiohead
Ima Robot
Josh Rouse
Joan of Arc
Supergrass
The Rentals
Iron & Wine
Of Montreal
Jeff Buckley
Ryan Adams
Hot Hot Heat
Matt Pond PA
Whiskeytown
White Stripes
Cuff the Duke
Folk Implosion
At the Drive-in
Ugly Casanova
The Undertones
Beat Happening
Violent Femmes
Tegan and Sara
Franz Ferdinand
Ben Folds (Five)
Apples in Stereo
TV on the Radio
The Flaming Lips
Raising the Fawn
Guided by Voices
The Weakerthans
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Decemberists
Devendra Banhart
Red House Painters
Jesus & Mary Chain
Belle and Sebastian
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Life of Brian, E.T., Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums (basically all of Wes Anderson's films), Amelie, the Evil Dead trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, The Land Before Time, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Empire Records, High Fidelity, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Outsiders, Mallrats, Garden State, Tommy, Pulp Fiction, Strangers with Candy, Pan's Labyrinth, anything in the Criterion Collectin, Harold and Maude
Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Space Ghost, Harvey Birdman, The Young Ones, Family Guy, The Wedge, Veronica Mars.
Anything by Chuck Klosterman, House of Leaves, Life of Pi, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest