A lot of the music I'm listening to isn't really the stuff we ever discuss here, groups like The Shins, Modest Mouse, or The Pixies.
Of course there are elements of the blues and 60s and 70s rock in the guitar playing, but the approach is still a lot different from blues based rock.
People overlook the stuff sometimes because the guitar playing is not always complex. But if you listen to the way they're writing songs with the guitar and how they play, it's fascinating. There's a lot more complexity and accomplishment that might be easy to ignore.
I'm going to sit down with a few of these records and learn some licks that I've never played before, figure out some guitar parts and try to understand how that style works in composition.