Music:
Just off the top of my head A thru Y…I’m sure I’ll leave some out, but you should get the idea:
A: Air, Archers of Loaf, Arctic Monkeys, Adam and the Ants, Tori Amos, Arcade Fire, Art Brut. The Art of Noise, Ashtray Babyhead.
B: BIG STAR, The Band, The Beatles, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, The Bongos, B52’s, Bloc Party, Baby Shambles, Syd Barrett, Band of Horses, Bright Eyes, Bauhaus, Bell & Sebastian, Beck, Blonde Redhead, Blood Thirsty Lovers, Billy Brag, Bat for Lashes, Bjork, BRMC, Built to Spill, The Buzzcocks, Blur, The Beastie Boys, The Big Cats, The Bravery.
C: Crass, The Cure, Crowded House, Coldplay, Richard Cheese, Chesterfield Kings, Cocorosie, Common, Crippled Black Phoenix, Crystal Skulls, CCR, Chinese Girls, Sam Cooke, The Clash, Can, Cibo Matto, Johnny Cash.
D: Donovan, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Nick Drake, John Denver, Chris Denny, The Decemberists, DEPECHE MODE, Descendents, The Dismemberment Plan
E: Elbow, ELO, Earlimart, Echo & The Bunneymen, The Editors, The Elected.
F: The Fall, Film School, The Flaming Lips, The Four Tops, Five-Eight.
G: Gorillaz, Gomez, The Glove, Gang of Four, Grifters, Gothic Archies, Jose Gonzalez, Green Day, The Grays, Phillip Glass, Guided by Voices, Grizzly Bear, The Go-Betweens.
H: Jimi Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Albert Hammond Jr, Buddy Holly, Helium, Herbie Hancock, Robyn Hitchcock, Ho-Hum, The Hold Steady, Howlin Wolf.
I: Interpol, Iron & Wine, Iron Maiden.
J: JOY DIVISION, The Jam, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Josh the Devil & the Sinners.
K: Kinks, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings of Leon, Rilo Kelly, Kevin Kerby, Kyoto Boom.
L: John Lennon, Love, Sean Lennon, Ladytron, LES ATTAQUES, Love & Rockets, Lucero, Loch Ness Monster, The Libertines.
M: Mates of State, Paul McCartney, Aimee Mann, Magazine, M. Ward, Mastodon, Morrissey, Modest Mouse, Peter Murphy, Mates of State, Mika, The Moody Blues, Motley Crue, Minor Threat, Jason Morphew, The Moving Front, MUTE MATH, Bob Marley, Mad Trucker, The Magic Cropdusters, My Bloody Valentine.
N: New Order, New York Dolls, The New Amsterdams, NICO.
O: Roy Orbison, Oingo Boingo, The Orb, Yoko Ono.
P: Pavement, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Peter Bjorn & John, The Playwrights, The Poly Phonic Spree, Robert Pollard, Elvis Presley, Pinback, The Pouges, The Posies, Primal Scream, Pretty Girls make Graves, P.I.L., Pulp, Psychedelic Furs, Iggy Pop, Postal Service, Elvis Perkins, Portishead.
Q: Queen. ? & the Mysterians.
R: Radiohead, Lou Reed, Ratt, Rolling Stones, R.E.M., RHCP, Otis Redding, The Rakes, The Ramones, Red House Painters, The Replacements, Rush, Rogue Wave, The Rosebuds, The Reds, Fionn Regan.
S: The Sex Pistols, THE SMITHS, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, Sex Pistols, Sufjan Stevens, Stone Roses, Supergrass, Supertramp, Nina Simone, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Sea Wolf, Sham 69, The Shins, Silversun Pickups, The Shout Out Louds, Siouxie & the Banshees, Stars, Spandu Ballet, Superchunk, The Scorpions, Smoke Up Johnny, 607, Regina Spektor, sparkydog, Shonen Knife, Superchunk, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sebadoh, Silver Jews, Shudder to Think
T: Teenage Fanclub, T.Rex, Talking Heads, Those Bastard Souls, Television, Tom Petty, Tel Aviv, Techno-Squid Eats Parliament, Sara Thomas, TRUSTY.
U: Unrest, UNKLE, U2.
V: The Velvet Underground, Verses.
W: The Who, WILCO, Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, Jackie Wilson, Rufus Wainright, The White Stripes.
X: X-Ray Specs, XTC.
Y: Yes, Neil Young, Thom Yorke. Z:……?
Books:
We the Living, 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye, Choke, Haunted, Of Love and Other Demons, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, White Noise, Anthem, Touching from a Distance, The Island of the Blue Dolphins, House of Blue Leaves, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tao of Pooh, The Diary of Anne Frank, Romeo and Juliet , King Lear, Macbeth, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals, Leaves Of Grass, The Writing Life, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Republic, Peter Pan: The Original Story, The Glass Menagerie, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Hotel Insomnia: Poems, Beloved Infidel: Poems Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, World Almanac, Bible, Mojo Magazine(from UK), CMJ Magazine
