besides hardcore punk, a lot of the music i listen to falls in the genres of math rock, post-hardcore, post-rock, indie rock and noise rock. here are some bands in these genres that i like, in alphabetical order

• 33.3 - jazzy post-rock with a cello
• built to spill - helvetia, but noisier and louder
• diabologum - spoken word, french, slightly noisy
• don caballero - instrumental, complex, funky
• ghosts and vodka - bright, energetic, instrumath
• helvetia - summery groovy hazy indie rock
• hurtmold - jazzy post-rock from brazil
• june of 44 - math rock, angular
• pele - post rock, really pleasant
• polvo - indie rock / math rock, noisy at times
• raymond brake, the - indie rock inspired by polvo
• rodan - post-hardcore
• seam - indie rock, noisy
• shipping news - post-hardcore
• slint - spoken word, post-rock
• sonic youth - noise rock, no wave
• toe - post rock, math rock
• unwound - post-hardcore
• very secretary - slowcore, indie rock, midwest emo