Top popular artists : Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, U2, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Queen, David Bowie, Coldplay, R.E.M., Linkin Park, The White Stripes, Muse, Radiohead, Bon Jovi, Pearl Jam, Oasis, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nickelback, Incubus, The Black Keys, Guns N' Roses, Neil Young, Aerosmith, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age, The Who, Nirvana, The Killers, Green Day, Lenny Kravitz, Weezer, Arctic Monkeys, Placebo, Dave Matthews Band, The Cranberries, Rage Against the Machine, My Chemical Romance, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Paramore, The Strokes, The Doors, 3 Doors Down, Papa Roach, Dire Straits, Evanescence, Avril Lavigne
Popular albums "rock": Stadium Arcadium, Californication, By The Way, 1, Bob Dylan: The Collection, The Suburbs, Greatest Hits, In Your Honor, The Beatles (The White Album), The Colour and the Shape, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Hybrid Theory, Tenacious D, Greatest Hits, Elephant, Meteora, Message In A Box, A Rush of Blood to the Head, Greatest Hits II, Black Holes and Revelations, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, Queen, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Tenacious D, Bruce Springsteen, The White Stripes, The Police, Coldplay, Muse
Rock music is a genre of music started in America.It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which evolved from blues, country music and other influences. According to the All Music Guide, “In its purest form, Rock & Roll has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.
Early rock & roll drew from a variety of sources, primarily blues, R&B, and country, but also gospel, traditional pop, jazz, and folk.All of these influences combined in a simple, blues-based song structure that was fast, danceable, and catchy.” Rock usually has a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers.
Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include saxophone (originally in the 50s the central instrument), harmonica, violin, flute, French horn, banjo, melodica, and timpani.Also, less common stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar are used. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around the guitar, either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic. In the late 1960s, rock music was ... more
