Cartridge for punk, rock, emo, indie?

Rock is about MONEY. A song is pumped up to blast thru on a car radio because that's where most stuff gets sold and they don't want you going any further on the dial.
Also. most rock "artists" have little to no taste and what they do have is bad.

Someone has a bad case of the Fridays :-(

Accuracy is, of course, a fiction generally used to make those who use the term comfortable with their buying decisions.

I think that the cream has risen to the surface, either the DL-110 or the AT120E. The later may give you some greater drive as it has a higher output voltage at the expense of sounding a bit less smooth, which may be a very good thing for your preferred genre of music.

When I say rock, I don't necessarily mean the rock that's the on the radio. Most of the stuff I like is either punk (which falls under the blanket term "rock), indie pop, folk rock, etc. Some of it is highly detailed as well. Regarding the comment about money, very few of the bands I like have ever made it on the radio, and some of them work their asses off for months just to afford touring, so I don't see where you're coming from with that.

Thank you to everyone who made suggestions. I appreciate it.

Rlwainwright does bring up a good point. If you buy a cart and use it like a tone control, you may cause more problems than you fix. Its kind of like buying an EQ with only 1 setting. The music you are listening to has a very wide range as to the quality and balance of the recordings. Some will be very good, and some very bad. I know EQ's are not very popular with a lot of people on this web site, but in some cases, it makes sense to use them. My suggestion would be to just get a decent, well rounded cart, and an EQ. The EQ can be run through the tape loop or to another channel on the preamp. Then all you have to do is switch it back and forth, depending on when its needed. More importantly, you are allowing each piece to do what it was designed to do. That would give you much better results. I use an EQ myself to deal with bad recordingd. Behringer makes some very good EQ's that don't cost a lot of money. I have a Ultragraph Digital DEQ1024 that works very well for me. Its an option you may want to conseder.