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• The Advantage
  The Advantage
  The Advantage is an American rock band from Sacramento, California that formed in 1998 and specializes in doing covers of music from old NES games...
  
  
• Davie Allan & the Arrows
• And So I Watch You From Afar
  And So I Watch You From Afar
  And So I Watch You From Afar are a three-piece instrumental rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The band consists of Rory Friers on guitar, Johnny Adger on bass and Chris Wee on drums...
  
  
• Apocalyptica
  Apocalyptica
  Apocalyptica is a band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Sirén...
  
  
• Apollo 100
  Apollo 100
  Apollo 100 was a short-lived British instrumental studio-based group that had a hit with the Johann Sebastian Bach-inspired single "Joy" in 1972....
  
  
• Abattoir
• Austin TV
  Austin TV
  Austin TV is an instrumental post-rock band formed in 2001 in Mexico City. Austin TV creates sonic landscapes with their music without lyrics. They have opened for groups like Yo La Tengo in Mexico and Café Tacuba in the U.S. leg of their 2007 tour, and have released three LPs, one EP and...
  
  
• Animals As Leaders
  Animals as Leaders
  Animals as Leaders is an American, Washington, D.C.–based instrumental progressive metal band, formed by guitarist Tosin Abasi in 2007 which now includes guitarist Javier Reyes and drummer Navene Koperweis. The self-titled debut album was released in April 2009 by Prosthetic Records...
  
  
• Andy Timmons
  Andy Timmons
  Andy Timmons is an American guitarist who has played in the bands Danger Danger, Pawn Kings, and Andy Timmons Band . He has also released several solo albums and has worked as a session guitarist...
  
  

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• The Bakerton Group
  The Bakerton Group
  The Bakerton Group is an instrumental blues jam band and the side project of the blues rock outfit Clutch. They incorporate elements of blues-rock, psychedelic rock, jazz and stoner rock.-Biography:...
  
  
• Because of Ghosts
  Because of Ghosts
  Because of Ghosts is a three-piece post-rock band based in Melbourne, AustraliaThey are often compared to bands such as Dirty Three or Godspeed You! Black Emperor....
  
  
• Behold... The Arctopus
  Behold... The Arctopus
  Behold... The Arctopus is an experimental metal band from Brooklyn, New York, United States.-Biography:Behold... The Arctopus was formed by Colin Marston and Mike Lerner, who had been playing guitar together for over a year-and-a-half by the time they found a drummer. Their demo We Need a Drummer ...
  
  
• The Bel-Airs
  The Bel-Airs
  The Bel-Airs were an early and influential surf rock band from Southern California, active in the early 1960s.They were best known for their 1961 hit "Mr. Moto", an instrumental surf rock song that featured a flamenco inspired intro and contained a melodic piano interlude...
  
  
• Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In late 2003, they recorded their first album, at the same time and in the same studio that Arcade Fire recorded Funeral. However, Arcade Fire's popularity was just beginning to break when they asked Bell Orchestre to...
  
  
• Billy Mahonie
  Billy Mahonie
  - History :Formed in 1997, the original line-up consisted of Gavin Baker , Howard Monk , Hywell Dinsdale and Kevin Penney . Their first release was on the Fierce Panda record label, a split-single with Rothko, followed by a release on the Fierce Panda offshoot Livid Meercat...
  
  
• The Black Mages
  The Black Mages
  The Black Mages were a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 2002 by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito - three composers for Square Enix. The band arranged Uematsu's Final Fantasy video game series-based compositions in a rock style often similar to progressive metal, achieved...
  
  
• Blotted Science
  Blotted Science
  Blotted Science is an instrumental technical death metal supergroup headed by Ron Jarzombek , bassist Alex Webster and drummer Hannes Grossmann...
  
  
• Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...
  
  
• Bond
  Bond (band)
  Bond is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover music...
  
  
• Bohren & der Club of Gore
  Bohren & der Club of Gore
  Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German ambient/jazz band from Nordrhein-Westfalen.-History:The band was founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany by Thorsten Benning, Morten Gass, Robin Rodenberg and Reiner Henseleit. Originally, group members started out playing in various hardcore bands such...
  
  
• Bonobo (musician)
• Booker T. & the MG's
• Bozzio Levin Stevens
  Bozzio Levin Stevens
  Bozzio Levin Stevens is a supergroup power trio of rock, fusion, jazz and instrumental classical music, consisting of drummer Terry Bozzio , bassist and Chapman Stick player Tony Levin and guitarist Steve Stevens,...
  
  
• Break of Reality
  Break of Reality
  Break of Reality is an American instrumental rock band consisting of three cellists and a percussionist. The group is associated with the terms “cinematic rock”, “cello rock”, and “heavy cello thunder”. Break of Reality's current members are Patrick Laird, Martin Torch-Ishii, Ivan Trevino and...
  
  
• Buckethead
  Buckethead
  Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...
  
  

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• The Cancer Conspiracy
  The Cancer Conspiracy
  The Cancer Conspiracy was a progressive rock group from Burlington, Vermont featuring guitarist Daryl Rabidoux, drummer/keyboardist/saxophonist Greg Beadle, and bassist Brent Frattini. Rabidoux and Beadle were veterans of the local hardcore scene, and had broken away from their respective bands...
  
  
• Caspian
  Caspian (band)
  Caspian is an instrumental post-rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. Since 2003 Caspian have released 2 full-length albums, an EP and a split 7".-Early History 2003-2004:...
  
  
• The Champs
  The Champs
  The Champs were an American rock and roll band, most famous for their Latin-tinged instrumental "Tequila". Formed by studio executives at Gene Autry's Challenge Records to record a B-Side for the Dave Burgess single, the intended throwaway track became more famous than its A-Side, "Train to...
  
  
• The Chantays
  The Chantays
  The Chantays are an American surf rock band from the early 1960s, known for the hit instrumental, "Pipeline" . Their music combined electronic keyboards and surf guitar, creating a unique ghostly sound.-History:...
  
  
• Chimp Spanner
• Chromelodeon
  Chromelodeon
  Chromelodeon are an 8-piece indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are known for their live shows as well as their unique instrumental sound. Their music is achieved by utilizing a combination of synthesizers and traditional instruments from guitars to accordions...
  
  
• Cougar (band)
  Cougar (band)
  Cougar is an instrumental post-rock band from Madison, Wisconsin formed in 2003. Formerly on the Madison-based record label Layered Music , Cougar is now signed to London label Ninja Tune...
  
  
• Crime in Choir
  Crime in Choir
  San Francisco quintet Crime In Choir are an instrumental progressive rock band, comparable to Faust, Goblin, Magma, Soft Machine, etc. Founded in 2000, Crime In Choir released their previous full-length releases on Frenetic Records and Omnibus , respectively...
  
  

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• Delay Tactics
  Carl Weingarten
  Carl Weingarten is an American guitarist, photographer, and founder of the independent music label Multiphase Records. Regarded as "one of the truly great indie musicians working today" by the San Francisco Chronicle, he is best known for his atmospheric sound and use of the slide guitar and Dobro...
  
  
• Dirty Three
  Dirty Three
  Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis , Mick Turner and Jim White , originating from Melbourne, Australia. Since the Dirty Three formed in 1992, they have spent a lot of time overseas...
  
  
• Disen Gage
  Disen Gage
  -History:The band was formed in 1999 by Yuri Alaverdyan and Konstantin Mochalov on guitars, Nikolay Syrtsev on bass guitar and Eugeniy Kudryashov on drums....
  
  
• Do Make Say Think
  Do Make Say Think
  Do Make Say Think is a Canadian instrumental post-rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Their music combines jazz style drums, distorted guitars and wind instruments, as well as a prominent use of the bass guitar.-Biography:...
  
  
• Don Caballero
  Don Caballero
  Don Caballero are an American rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group took their name from the character Guy Caballero, portrayed by Joe Flaherty, on the sketch comedy show Second City Television...
  
  
• Dub Trio
  Dub Trio
  Dub Trio is a dub/rock cross-over band from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Dub Trio is DP - Dave Holmes Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino...
  
  
• Dysrhythmia

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• Earth
  Earth (band)
  Earth is an American musical group based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1989 and led by guitarist Dylan Carlson.Earth's music is nearly all instrumental, and can be divided into two distinct stages...
  
  
• Electro Quarterstaff
  Electro Quarterstaff
  Electro Quarterstaff is an instrumental metal band hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They play a form of progressive/technical heavy metal and employ three lead guitarists. Initially consisting of just three guitarists and drummer, they added a bassist to their line-up in winter 2006 and...
  
  
• El Ten Eleven
  El Ten Eleven
  El Ten Eleven is a Los Angeles, CA post-rock duo known for combining guitar/bass doubleneck or fretless bass, with heavy looping, or vamping, and the utility of an effects pedal, over acoustic or electric drumming...
  
  
• Erotic Cakes
• Errors
• Explosions in the Sky
  Explosions in the Sky
  Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies," and their enthusiastic and emotional live shows...
  
  
• E. S. Posthumus

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• Finch
  Finch (Dutch band)
  Finch was a Dutch progressive rock group that continued to be known internationally years after their final concert on 14 November 1978 at the Nederlands Congres Centrum in The Hague.-History:...
  
  
• Jon Finn Group
  Jon Finn Group
  The Jon Finn Group is a rock band formed and led by the Boston guitarist Jon Finn. The band plays instrumental progressive rock, sounding like a mix between Dream Theater and Dixie Dregs with a blues approach....
  
  
• The Fireballs
  The Fireballs
  The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, is an American rock and roll group, particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s...
  
  
• Friends of Dean Martinez
  Friends of Dean Martinez
  Friends of Dean Martinez is an instrumental rock/post-rock band featuring members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey. FoDM music may be described as a combination of americana tunes with bits of electronica, ambient, lounge, psychedelia and dub intertwined with surf rock inspired lead...
  
  
• From Monument to Masses
  From Monument to Masses
  From Monument to Masses was a politically-charged post-rock band which was founded in San Francisco in late 2000. They have released four albums to date, the latest full-length of which was released through Dim Mak on March 10, 2009...
  
  
• The Fucking Champs
  The Fucking Champs
  The Fucking Champs are a three-piece progressive rock band from San Francisco, California. They are known for their heavy metal appeal, based largely around shifting time signatures, guitar harmonies, and lots of rhythm. Most songs are instrumental. They are currently signed to Drag City...
  
  
• Füxa
  Füxa
  Füxa was a space rock duo, consisting of Detroit musicians Ryan Anderson and Randall Nieman . Füxa was created in 1994 and their music has been described as psychedelic and experimental...
  
  
• Flying Lotus
  Flying Lotus
  Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006...
  
  

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• Gifts From Enola
  Gifts From Enola
  Gifts From Enola is a four-piece instrumental post-rock band from Harrisonburg, Virginia. Their music is characterised with a strong riff-orientated guitar sound along with the soft-loud approach prevalent in some post-rock. They have released three full length albums and a split album...
  
  
• God is an Astronaut
  God Is an Astronaut
  God Is an Astronaut are an instrumental/post-rock band from the Glen of the Downs, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.-History:After forming in 2002, God is an Astronaut took the inspiration for its name from a famous quote in the movie Nightbreed...
  
  
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994...
  
  
• Gone
  Gone (band)
  Gone is a three-piece punk-based instrumental rock band, formed by Greg Ginn in late 1985. Originally, Gone was a side project to his main group, Black Flag.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gontiti
  Gontiti
  Gontiti is a Japanese world music guitar duo formed in 1978 by Masahiko "Gonzalez" Mikami and Masahide "Titi" Matsumura...
  
  
• Grails
  Grails (band)
  Grails is an American instrumental rock band from Portland, Oregon.-Biography:Initially going by the name "Laurel Canyon", guitarist Alex Hall, drummer Emil Amos and second guitarist Paul Spitz garnered positive reactions following their first show, played on a whim...
  
  

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• Jakob
  Jakob (band)
  Jakob is a New Zealand post-rock band, based in the Hawkes Bay city of Napier. The band consists of guitarist Jeff Boyle; bassist Maurice Beckett; and drummer Jason Johnston...
  
  
• Jeff Beck
  Jeff Beck
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
  
  
• Jeff Loomis
  Jeff Loomis
  Jeff Loomis is an American musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore.-Early days:...
  
  
• Jennifer Batten
  Jennifer Batten
  Jennifer Batten is an American guitarist, who has worked as both a session musician and solo artist. She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond, was produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello. In 1997, she released the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer...
  
  
• Joe Satriani
  Joe Satriani
  Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
  
  
• John5
• Joy Wants Eternity
  Joy Wants Eternity
  Joy Wants Eternity is a five piece post-rock band from Seattle. The band has drawn comparisons to Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai in album reviews with its melodic passages and equal parts ambience through heavily effected guitar. The Joy Wants Eternity song "You are the Vertical, You are the...
  
  

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• Lanterna
  Lanterna
  Lanterna is a musical project led by guitarist Henry Frayne, formerly of Ack-Ack, Area and The Moon Seven Times. Their tracks are evocative soundscapes, usually instrumental, that focus on Frayne's melodic guitar work awash in effects.-History:...
  
  
• Laika & the Cosmonauts
  Laika & the Cosmonauts
  Laika & the Cosmonauts were a Finnish rock band. They had the same lineup from the time they formed in 1987 until they stopped recording in 2008. Their sound is usually described as Surf Rock, but a Boston Globe review noted that the band's sound is "far beyond the limitations of any specific...
  
  
• Labradford
  Labradford
  Labradford is a U.S. post-rock musical group from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1991. They have released six full albums from 1993 to 2001. Though not officially disbanded, its members have since been active with separate projects.-Biography:...
  
  
• Lento
  Lento
  Lento is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.It shares the canton of Alto-di-Casaconi with Monte, Volpajola, Campile, Olmo, Prunelli-di-Casacconi, Campitello, Ortiporio, Canavaggia, Bigorno, Scolca, Crocicchia and Penta-Acquatella.-Population:-References:*...
  
  
• Liquid Tension Experiment
  Liquid Tension Experiment
  Liquid Tension Experiment is an instrumental progressive rock/metal supergroup, founded by Dream Theater's former drummer Mike Portnoy in 1997. The band has released two albums through Magna Carta Records...
  
  
• The Lively Ones
  The Lively Ones
  The Lively Ones were an American instrumental surf rock band active in Southern California in the 1960s. They played live mostly in California and Arizona. They recorded for Del-Fi records with production from Bob Keane...
  
  
• Los Straitjackets
  Los Straitjackets
  Los Straitjackets is an American instrumental rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1988. Originally comprising guitarists Danny Amis and Eddie Angel and drummer L. J. "Jimmy" Lester under the name The Straitjackets, the band split up soon after forming and reunited as Los Straitjackets...
  
  
• Lymbyc Systym
  Lymbyc Systym
  Lymbyc Systym is an instrumental band from Tempe, Arizona which formed in 2001, consisting of brothers Jared and Michael Bell. Their sound combines elements of instrumental rock and electronic music. Lymbyc Systym have toured with Broken Social Scene, The Books, Crystal Castles, The Album Leaf, ...
  
  

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• M83
  M83 (band)
  M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. It is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France...
  
  
• Marty Friedman
• Maserati
  Maserati (band)
  Maserati is a band from Athens, Georgia, United States whose sound is best described as a combination of post-rock and psychedelic influences. Their music is instrumental, relying on the standard rock instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums...
  
  
• Maybeshewill
  Maybeshewill
  Maybeshewill are an instrumental band from Leicester, United Kingdom whose music is characterised by the use of programmed and sampled electronic elements alongside guitars, bass and drums....
  
  
• MegaDriver
  MegaDriver
  MegaDriver is a Brazilian heavy metal and video game music cover band formed in 2003 by Antonio "Nino" Francisco Tornisiello, who uses the stage name "Nino Megadriver".-History:...
  
  
• The Mercury Program
  The Mercury Program
  The Mercury Program is an American musical group composed of Dave Lebleu on drums, Sander Travisano on bass guitar, Tom Reno on guitar, and Whit Travisano on vibraphone and piano. They are based in Gainesville, FL. The first three members formed a trio in August 1997 and Whit Travisano joined in...
  
  
• The Mermen
  The Mermen
  The Mermen are an American rock band from San Francisco, California that formed in 1989.The group's sound was originally rooted in surf and psychedelic rock music of the 1960s, although they have made "sincere attempts to get away from the surf music label" and currently delves into many genres,...
  
  
• Metavari
  Metavari
  Metavari is an American instrumental electronic band composed of Ty Brinneman, Andrew McComas, Nate Utesch and Kyle Steury. They are based in Fort Wayne, IN. Metavari combine nuances of both electronic music and post-rock...
  
  
• Mindflayer
  Mindflayer (band)
  Mindflayer is a noise rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, made up of Brian Chippendale and Matt Brinkman which was formed out of Fort Thunder....
  
  
• Minibosses
  Minibosses
  Minibosses is an independent progressive rock/progressive metal band originally from Northampton, Massachusetts and currently located in Phoenix, Arizona. They are known for their video game music covers, which are instrumental rock variations of the theme music from classic Nintendo video games...
  
  
• Mogwai
  Mogwai
  The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...
  
  
• Mono
  Mono (Japanese band)
  Mono are a Japanese post rock band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto , Yoda , Tamaki Kunishi , and Yasunori Takada .Mono have released five studio albums...
  
  
• Marc Rizzo
  Marc Rizzo
  Marc Rizzo is the lead guitarist of American metal band Soulfly and formerly of Ill Niño. He has featured on four Soulfly albums to date: Prophecy, Dark Ages, Conquer, and Omen. He has also released three solo instrumental albums; Colossal Myopia, The Ultimate Devotion, and Legionnaire...
  
  

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• The Octopus Project
  The Octopus Project
  The Octopus Project is an American indietronica band based in Austin, Texas, active since 1999. Its unique sound, blending pop and experimental elements, is a combination of digital and electronic sounds and noises and analog equipment...
  
  
• Odyssey
  Odyssey
  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...
  
  
• Orbital
  Orbital (band)
  Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows...
  
  
• The Outlaws
  The Outlaws (UK band)
  The Outlaws were an English instrumental band that recorded in the early 1960s. One time members included Ritchie Blackmore, Chas Hodges, Bobby Graham, Ken Lundgren, Mick Underwood, Reg Hawkins , Billy Kuy and others....
  
  
• OXES
  OXES
  OXES are an instrumental rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. Their music has been called math rock or post-punk.OXES are part of what is known as "The Baltimore Rowdy Collective" which stages practical jokes, usually involving a confrontational and outlandish racket in public places...
  
  
• Ozric Tentacles
  Ozric Tentacles
  Ozric Tentacles are an instrumental rock band from Somerset, England, whose music can loosely be described as psychedelic or space rock. Formed in 1983, the band has released 28 albums as of 2011, and become a cottage industry selling over a million albums worldwide despite never having major...
  
  

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• Pele
  Pele (band)
  Pele were an English indie rock band, formed on Merseyside in 1990, by the guitarist and frontman Ian Prowse and keyboard player Andrew Roberts. They were joined by Dally on drums, Jimmy McAllister on bass guitar and finally Nico on violin...
  
  
• Pelican
  Pelican (band)
  Pelican is a post-metal quartet from Chicago, Illinois.-Biography and description:The band is known for its dense combinations of different melodies and extended track lengths. Its distinctive sound draws from stoner rock, doom metal, post-rock, and other influences...
  
  
• Pell Mell
  Pell Mell
  Pell Mell was an instrumental rock combo, formed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon.The original members were Arni May, guitar, and Jon-Lars Sorenson, bass, from the Portland avant-garde group UHF, and from local Reed College Bill Owen on guitar, and Bob Beerman on drums...
  
  
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a collective of performing musicians created by classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes...
  
  
• Piglet (band)
  Piglet (band)
  Piglet was a short-lived, Chicago-based instrumental math rock band formed by the former members of the band Seyarse. Their style of music is labeled such things as "math rock," "post rock" "experimental rock," and instrumental rock, among others...
  
  
• Planet X
  Planet X (band)
  Planet X is an instrumental rock/progressive metal supergroup, founded by keyboardist Derek Sherinian and drummer Virgil Donati. Throughout a decade of activity, they have released three studio albums and one live album, each with a variety of guest musicians and oft-changing...
  
  
• Powerglove
  Powerglove (band)
  Powerglove is an American power metal band. They are known to play metal versions of classic video game themes. The band is named after the Power Glove, a NES controller accessory.-Early years, Total Pwnage and Metal Kombat :...
  
  

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• Rachel's
  Rachel's
  Rachel's is an American chamber music group that formed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1991. Former Rodan guitarist, Jason Noble, played music individually and referred to himself as Rachel's but then began collaborating with now core members, violist Christian Frederickson, and pianist Rachel Grimes...
  
  
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• Ratatat
  Ratatat
  Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast .-History:Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College, but they did not work together until 2001, when they recorded several songs under the name "Cherry"...
  
  
• Red Sparowes
  Red Sparowes
  Red Sparowes is a Los Angeles post-rock band comprising current and former members of Isis, Halifax Pier, Angel Hair and Pleasure Forever. Their sound is characteristic of soundscape-influenced experimental rock, with an otherwise uncommon extensive use of a pedal steel guitar.-History:Red Sparowes...
  
  
• The Redneck Manifesto (band)
  The Redneck Manifesto (band)
  The Redneck Manifesto are an instrumental rock band from Dublin, Ireland. Its members are Mervyn Craig , Richard Egan , Niall Byrne , Matthew Bolger and Neil O'Connor .-History:...
  
  
• The Roots of Orchis
  The Roots of Orchis
  The Roots of Orchis is a progressive rock band from San Francisco, California. They are currently on the Slowdance Records label.-External links:****...
  
  
• Rovo
  Rovo
  Rovo is a Japanese instrumental band founded in 1996 in Tokyo by former Boredoms guitarist Seiichi Yamamoto, Bondage Fruit electric violinist Yuji Katsui, and synthesizer/effects technician Tatsuki Masuko, and featuring Yasuhiro Yoshigaki on drums and percussion, Youichi Okabe on drums and...
  
  
• Russian Circles
  Russian Circles
  Russian Circles is a three piece instrumental rock/metal band from Chicago. Russian Circles play instrumental, sprawling music which runs the gamut of heavy discordant metal, to soft delicate passages...
  
  

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• Savatage
  Savatage
  Savatage is an American heavy metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.-Early days :...
  
  
• Saxon Shore
  Saxon Shore
  Saxon Shore could refer to one of the following:* Saxon Shore, a military command of the Late Roman Empire, encompassing southern Britain and the coasts of northern France...
  
  
• Scale the Summit
  Scale the Summit
  Scale the Summit is an American instrumental metal band based out of Houston, Texas. It formed in 2004 and signed to Prosthetic Records.The band draws influences from other progressive acts such as Cynic and Dream Theater. However, unlike most other progressive metal bands, they have no vocalist...
  
  
• Secret Chiefs 3
  Secret Chiefs 3
  Secret Chiefs 3 is an instrumental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance . Their studio recordings and tours have featured different line-ups, as the group performs a wide range of musical styles including surf rock, Persian, Arab, Indian, death metal, film music, electronic music,...
  
  
• Serpent Throne
  Serpent Throne
  Serpent Throne is an instrumental stoner/doom metal band from Philadelphia, United States that formed in 2005. The band has released three studio albums: Ride Satan Ride released in 2007 on the label Season of Mist, The Battle of Old Crow in 2009 on Vessel Records, and White Summer•Black Winter in...
  
  
• The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
  
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet were a Juno Award-winning Canadian instrumental rock band, formed in 1984. They remain best-known for the track "Having an Average Weekend," which was used as the theme to the Canadian sketch comedy TV show The Kids in the Hall...
  
  
• Signal Hill
  Signal Hill (band)
  Signal Hill are a 4-piece instrumental rock band from Los Angeles, California. They have played shows with such bands as All India Radio, This Will Destroy You, Balmorhea, Beware of Safety, and Caspian, and they have toured the West Coast of the United States as well as played shows in Melbourne...
  
  
• The Six Parts Seven
  The Six Parts Seven
  The Six Parts Seven was an American post-rock band formerly based in Kent, Ohio. The band was founded in 1995 by brothers Allen and Jay Karpinski , who had earlier played with Old Hearts Club, a band of similar style...
  
  
• Skeletonbreath
  Skeletonbreath
  Skeletonbreath is a Brooklyn, New York based Instrumental rock trio signed to Ernest Jenning Records. Their music has been self-described as "Transylvanian Surf Rock" and "Halloween party music." The band is composed of Andrew Platt on electric bass, Bob Pycior on electric violin, and Tris...
  
  
• Sky
  Sky (band)
  Sky was a British instrumental group that specialised in fusing a variety of musical styles including light rock, progressive rock, classical and jazz. The group's best known members were classical guitarist John Williams, bass player Herbie Flowers Sky was a British instrumental group that...
  
  
• Solaris
  Solaris (band)
  Solaris is a progressive rock band from Hungary. Established in 1980, the band went through several formations. Their music has a strong melodic content, often laced with Eastern European themes, and is highlighted by the use of dynamics and extended thematic development...
  
  
• Sound Tribe Sector 9
  Sound Tribe Sector 9
  Sound Tribe Sector 9 is an instrumental band known for their live performances. The band’s genre-blending sound is based heavily on instrumental rock and electronic music crossed with elements of funk, jazz, drum and bass, psychedelia, and hip hop...
  
  
• The Spotnicks
  The Spotnicks
  The Spotnicks is an instrumental rock group from Sweden, who were formed in 1961. They were famous for wearing "space suit" costumes on stage, and for their innovative electronic guitar sound...
  
  
• Stinking Lizaveta
  Stinking Lizaveta
  Stinking Lizaveta is a power trio from Philadelphia that plays heavy instrumental rock. MusicMight categorizes them as "doom jazz". Their 1996 debut album was recorded by Steve Albini. Albini was so impressed by them, he brought them to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he co-curated in 2004...
  
  
• Los Straitjackets
  Los Straitjackets
  Los Straitjackets is an American instrumental rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1988. Originally comprising guitarists Danny Amis and Eddie Angel and drummer L. J. "Jimmy" Lester under the name The Straitjackets, the band split up soon after forming and reunited as Los Straitjackets...
  
  
• SubArachnoid Space
  SubArachnoid Space
  SubArachnoid Space was a San Francisco, California-based psychedelic rock band founded in 1996 by Mason Jones, the owner of the independent music label Charnel Music.They relocated to Portland Oregon, where they continued to perform, tour and release albums...
  
  
• The Surf Coasters
• The Surfaris
  The Surfaris
  The Surfaris were an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California in 1962. They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles, California area, and nationally by May 1963: "Surfer Joe" on the A-side and "Wipe Out" on the B-side of a 45 RPM single.-Career:The original...
  
  
• Steve Vai
  Steve Vai
  Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....
  
  

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• Talkdemonic
  Talkdemonic
  Talkdemonic is an avant-instrumental duo based in Portland, Oregon. The band consists of Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro. Talkdemonic recently signed with Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace Recordings to release their fourth record in Fall 2011.- History :...
  
  
• Tarentel
  Tarentel (band)
  Tarentel is a band based in San Francisco, California, which formed in 1995. Initially, the band consisted of Danny Grody and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma...
  
  
• This Will Destroy You
  This Will Destroy You
  This Will Destroy You, often abbreviated to TWDY, is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2005. The band consists of guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bass player and keyboardist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore...
  
  
• Toiling Midgets
  Toiling Midgets
  Toiling Midgets is an influential rock band from San Francisco, California with "roots in seminal San Francisco punk acts the Sleepers and Negative Trend1." They were "one of the first West Coast punk bands to experiment with dub and post-punk elements1", and have been active on-and-off since 1979...
  
  
• Tommy & The Tom Toms
  Tommy & the Tom Toms
  Tommy & The Tom Toms first started with two guitars and drums, Eddie Wayne Hill on lead guitar, Leonard Walters on rhythm guitar and Joel Colbert on drums. The three fledgling musicians from Arlington, Texas began jamming in an old barn in 1959 and evolved to playing around town for private parties...
  
  
• The Tornados
  The Tornados
  The Tornados were an English instrumental group of the 1960s that acted as backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions and also for singer Billy Fury. They enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the UK and U.S. Number One "Telstar" , the first U.S...
  
  
• Tortoise
  Tortoise (band)
  Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1990.-Music:Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's fertile music scene, playing in...
  
  
• Toubab Krewe
  Toubab Krewe
  Toubab Krewe is an American instrumental band which fuses the music of Mali with American musical styles . The group's instrumentation includes kora , kamelengoni , soku , two electric guitars, electric bass guitar, drum set, and African percussion...
  
  
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  Trans-Siberian Orchestra is an American progressive metal band founded in 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. Since then, TSO sold nearly 8...
  
  
• Tribal Tech
  Tribal Tech
  Tribal Tech is a progressive fusion band, originally formed in 1984 by guitarist Scott Henderson and bass player Gary Willis. From 1993 forward the band included Scott Kinsey on keyboard and Kirk Covington on drums, and has produced nine albums that stretch the borders between blues, jazz, and rock...
  
  
• Tristeza
  Tristeza
  Tristeza is a post-rock band from San Diego, California. The band has performed in 19 countries.Tristeza is a California-based band, with most members currently living in Oakland, CA....