"most recently, i was surprised to discover that Tim Goldsworthy of DFA -- and before that, of Mo Wax and UNKLE -- had been heavily into C86"
I'm trying to remember, Tim has an older brother or something who was a real scenester, was in some band. Back when I did Plant Bar on mondays my friend Kevin dj'd happy hour, he's always been a standard bearer of that type of stuff, he put out the Love Is All single recently, anyway, he had Tim's brother DJ once when he was in town, it was all that stuff.
As an aside, regarding all the talk of baggie killing indie, when I think of indie rock in america I think of the 90s and stuff that was post-baggie. When I was in high school/college and stuff like Stereolab, Polvo, Pavement, the whole Louisville/Chicao axis, Bastro, Shellac, K records, Kill Rock Stars etc. Stereolab was always my favorite because they tied into my then also new krautrock obsession(as well as Silver Apples, United States of America etc) and I liked the songs. Most of the rest of "indie-rock" at the time bored me. Except for New Zealand for some reason, anyway.