Great post! I'm a nineties kid too. As far as some stuff you may like, may I make some recommendations? Okay, great, you said "sure thing!", so I shall. I have to give @cellardoorzero credit for turning me on to some of these: Deadboy and the Elephant Men, Pissed Jeans, Cocksparrer (far from new but super good English punk with a message), BRMC, The Prosaics, The Spits, The Network, Sons and Daughters, Murder City Devils, The Ravonettes, Giant Sand, and The Thermals. Okay, none of these are exceptionally new, but check some of them out sometime. Cellardoorzero, also has a new post up where you could hit him up for recs. He was into some of the same stuff as you in the nineties and worked in a record store for ten years. Cheers!