A
- Aa
- John Abercrombie
- Josh Abrams (See also Natural Information Society)
- Muhal Richard Abrams
- Activities of Dust
- King Sunny Adé
- Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids
- Aerial M
- Aesop Rock
- Akron/Family
- The Album Leaf
- Oren Ambarchi
- Amon Düül II
- Animal Collective
- The Antlers
- Aphex Twin
- Arca
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Mulatu Astatke
- Atlas Sound
- Autre Ne Veut
- Avey Tare
- David Axelrod
- Albert Ayler
B
- Joey Bada$$
- Badbadnotgood
- Erykah Badu
- Joan Baez
- Meg Baird
- Gato Barbieri
- Syd Barrett
- Robbie Basho
- Battles
- The Beach Boys
- Beak>
- The Beatles
- Bibio
- Big Brave
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy
- Bitchin Bajas
- Björk
- The Black Angels
- Black Moth Super Rainbow
- Black Ox Orkestar
- Black Sabbath
- Black Spirituals
- Brian Blade
- James Blake
- Art Blakey
- Blonde Redhead
- Boards of Canada
- The Body
- Bon Iver
- The Books
- Boris
- Botany
- Bowery Electric
- David Bowie
- Lester Bowie
- Jaimie Branch
- Anthony Braxton
- Bright Eyes
- Brokeback
- Broken Social Scene
- Danny Brown
- Tim Buckley
- Built to Spill
- Sandy Bull
- Burial
- Donald Byrd
- Julie Byrne
C
- J.J. Cale
- Bill Callahan
- Can
- Cannibal Ox
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
- Caravan
- Caribou
- Cat Power
- Causa Sui
- Nick Cave
- Malcolm Cecil
- Eric Chenaux
- Don Cherry
- Circuit Des Yeux
- Gene Clark
- Cluster
- Codona
- Leonard Cohen
- Ornette Coleman
- Alice Coltrane
- John Coltrane
- Cornelius
- David Crosby
- Crown Larks
- CSNY
- The Cure
- Andrew Cyrille
- Holger Czukay
D
- Dälek
- D’Angelo
- Darkside
- Miles Davis
- Dawn of Midi
- Richard Dawson
- Jack DeJohnette
- Dead Recipe
- Death Grips
- Deerhoof
- Deerhunter
- Deradoorian
- Digable Planets
- Dirty Projectors
- Dirty Three
- DJ Shadow
- Eric Dolphy
- Do Make Say Think
- Don Caballero
- The Doors
- Nick Drake
- Dr. Dog
- Dungen
- Duster
- Bob Dylan
E-F
- Earth
- Earthly
- Brian Eno
- Esmerine
- Ensemble Pearl
- Gil Evans
- Explosions in the Sky
- Exuma
- John Fahey
- Father John Misty
- Faust
- Feist
- The Flaming Lips
- Fleet Foxes
- Flying Lotus
- Fly Pan Am
- Föllakzoid
- Four Tet
- Nils Frahm
- Robert Fripp
- Fred Frith
- Edith Frost
- Fuck Buttons
- Funkadelic
- Full of Hell
- Fursaxa
G
- Alex G
- Jan Garbarek
- Gastr Del Sol
- Yonatan Gat
- Marvin Gaye
- Freddie Gibbs
- Girls
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Gong
- Alain Goraguer
- Grails
- Grateful Dead
- Larkin Grimm
- Grizzly Bear
- David Grubbs [See also Gastr Del Sol]
H
- Charlie Haden
- Keiji Haino
- Mary Halvorson
- Herbie Hancock
- Roy Harper
- Harmonia
- Dave Harrington
- Hawkwind
- Tim Hecker
- Helen Money
- Hella
- The Heliocentrics
- Eddie Henderson
- Joe Henderson
- Jimi Hendrix
- Henry Cow
- Billie Holiday
- Dave Holland
- Julia Holter
- Holy Fuck
- Holy Sons
- Jon Hopkins
- Freddie Hubbard
- Human Behavior
- Bobby Hutcherson
I-J-K
- The Incredible String Band
- Iron & Wine
- Irreversible Entanglements
- Isis
- Bert Jansch
- Keith Jarrett
- The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra
- Jerusalem in My Heart
- Jethro Tull
- Paul De Jong
- Eyvind Kang
- King Crimson
- King Tubby
- Leo Kottke
- Fela Kuti
L
- Kendrick Lamar
- Lando Chill
- Mary Lattimore
- Led Zeppelin
- Lilacs & Champagne
- Little Dragon
- Charles Lloyd
- lojii
- Loose Fur
- Sarah Louise
- Love
- Alfonso Lovo
- Julian Lynch
M
- Madlib
- Magnolia Electric Co. (See also: Jason Molina and Songs: Ohia)
- Marriages
- John Martyn
- Massacre
- Massive Attack
- Mastodon
- Bennie Maupin
- Curtis Mayfield
- Makaya McCraven
- John McLaughlin
- Efrim Menuck
- The Meters
- MF Doom
- MGMT
- The Microphones
- Charles Mingus
- Joni Mitchell
- Mdou Moctar
- Modest Mouse
- Mogwai
- Jason Molina (Including Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs: Ohia)
- Thelonious Monk
- Moor Mother
- Van Morrison
- Mount Eerie
- Murcof
- My Bloody Valentine
N-O
- The National
- Natural Information Society
- Natural Snow Buildings
- The Necks
- Neu!
- Neurosis
- Mickey Newbury
- Joanna Newsom
- Gimmer Nicholson
- Carlos Niño
- Stephen O’Malley [See also Sunn O)))]
- Jim O’Rourke [See also Gastr Del Sol]
- Om
- Oneohtrix Point Never
- Ought
P-Q-R
- Augustus Pablo
- Panda Bear
- Jeff Parker [See also Tortoise]
- Parliament
- Gary Peacock
- Pentangle
- Sandro Perri
- Pink Floyd
- Poliça
- Portishead
- Port St. Willow
- Julian Priester Pepe Mtoto
- Quasimoto
- Radiohead
- Red Sparowes
- Steve Reich
- Brian Reitzell
- Sam Rivers
- Matana Roberts
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
- Jack Rose
- Michael Rother
- Ruiners
S
- Laetitia Sadier
- Samoans
- Pharoah Sanders
- Tony Scott
- The Sea and Cake
- Anthony Shadduck
- Ravi Shankar
- Archie Shepp
- Shlohmo
- Sigur Ros
- Silver Mt. Zion
- Sturgill Simpson
- Six Organs of Admittance
- Sleep
- Slint
- Slowdive
- Soft Machine
- Solange
- Songs: Ohia
- Squarepusher
- Stereolab
- Colin Stetson
- Sufjan Stevens
- A Storm of Light
- Strunz & Farah
- Moses Sumney
- Sunn O)))
- Sun Ra
- Swans
- David Sylvian
- SZA
T
- Talk Talk
- Tangerine Dream
- Tarentel
- Cecil Taylor
- Teeth Mountain
- Tera Melos
- This Heat
- Thundercat
- Tobacco
- Tonto’s Expanding Head Band
- Tortoise
- Trans Am
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Bobb Trimble
- True Widow
- McCoy Tyner
U-V-W
- James Blood Ulmer
- Ulver
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra
- Viktor Vaughn
- Miroslav Vitous
- Vinyl Williams
- Ryley Walker
- M. Ward
- Kamasi Washington
- Weather Report
- Eberhard Weber
- Western Skies Motel
- White Denim
- Wilco
- Stevie Wonder
- Wrekmeister Harmonies
- Robert Wyatt
