Indie Rock

Robert Smith opens the ledger in 1978, and by 1985 the credits multiply fast — J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Ian Brown, Tanya Donelly, and Kim Gordon all surface in the same season, with Steve Shelley joining a year later. Threading through those early names is mastering engineer Porky, whose hand recurs across Ian Brown, J Mascis, Kim Gordon, Lou Barlow, and Steve Shelley, while producer Paul Q. Kolderie binds J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Tanya Donelly, and producer-engineer Wharton Tiers ties J Mascis, Kim Gordon, and Lou Barlow into the same sessions. Around Kim Gordon and Steve Shelley the connective tissue thickens — mastering engineers John Golden and Howie Weinberg, musician Thurston Moore, and the recurring presences of Dave Swanson all leave fingerprints, with John Golden reaching forward to Jeff Mangum when he and Isaac Brock arrive in 1993. By 1995 Lili Haydn enters, sharing