A website directory and metasearch engine of Top 20 best websites
Top 20  
Online  
 
 
Add To Favorites Make this your Start Page Top 20 from A-Z
 
Top 20 Rock
Listen to Music Now
 Classical
 Country    Jazz
 Oldies    Top 40
 Ambient    NPR
AccuRadio
Windows  |   Launch
Radio Tower  |  AOL

Top20Listen

Local Google Maps Y! AOL City Search Ticket Master Zip Phone/E-Mail
Top 20 City Guides Top 20 State Guides Top 20 Nation Guides
Metasearch Links:   
Google Yahoo MSN Ask Answers ixquick DMOZ About
Wikipedia Encarta Y! News Y! Video AV Images Blogs Top 20
 
See also Hakia Sidekiq Clusty Other Images Google ASK Flickr News Google NYT BBC
Directories Y! Google Alexa Almanac Archive Videos Google YouTube AOL MSN ASK
 
Diversions
of the week
20 Questions
Richoche
Ice Palace
American Shoe Trees
Animator vs. Animation
Archive

Top20Diversions

Current News

Left CornerTop 20Right Corner
Classic Rock AdvSearch AOL Radio iTunes
Rock Launch AOL Videos VirginRadio
Pop/Rock Rock 80s Choice Paradise
Modern Rock PublicRadio 202 Online LoudCity
Brit Rock RadioTower allDANZ SSS Dallas

Top 20 Directory:
Top : Arts : Music : Styles : R : Rock
  • Bands and Artists

  • Alternative
  • Christian@
  • Classic
  • Electroclash
  • Emo
  • Folk-Rock@
  • Garage
  • Gothic
  • Heavy Metal
  • Industrial
  • Jam
  • Native American@
  • New Wave
  • Pop@
  • Progressive
  • Punk
  • Rockabilly
  • Ska
  • Surf
  • Swing@

  • Agents and Managers@
  • Concerts and Events@
  • History
  • Lyrics@
  • Magazines and E-zines
  • Personal Pages
  • Radio
  • Shopping@
  • Sound Files@

    See Also:

    Sites:
  • Adult Contemporary Music in Japan: Information and artist profile from the AOR, Adult Contemporary Music, CCM, Fusion genres, also reviews and news, with a Japanese perspective.
  • All About Discography: Discographies with full track listings on classic, rock, and alternative bands including The Beatles, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Madness, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, and Portishead.
  • grrlyrock.com: From Bikini Kill to Switchblade Symphony to Melissa Etheridge, this site supports and promotes Women in Rock. Download and listen to many different female artists.
  • Hellfire Music Resource: Large collection of links to sites on industrial, ambient, punk, metal, and gothic music and bands, plus links to radio shows and zines.
  • NewRock.RulesTheWeb.com: Guide to new music on the radio, local Kentucky bands, Internet music downloads, and online radio stations.
  • Psyche van het folk: Radio program and large resource covering several types of rock music, including progressive and psychedelic, gothic, experimental, and folk. With extensive links to other sources of relatedcinformation.
  • rec.music.misc -- Top Album of the Year Polls: The results of polls conducted on a number of music related USENET newsgroups for the best albums of the year from 1988 to 1997.
  • Rock Archives: Offers access to resources regarding the social, cultural, and artistic aspects of rock music, including a sub-site linking to more than 350 singer-songwriters and bands.
  • Rock Bands: The origins and stories behind some often unusual band names.
  • Rubin's Rock N Roll Reference Discography: A complete list of rock artists and their songs, albums, years of release, lead singers, and other helpful information to help track down music one is looking for.
  • Suite 101: Rock Music: News and reviews of current and classic artists.
  • The Dead Rock Stars Club: An extensive list of dead rock stars and people related to rock, when and how they died with links to sites about them
  • The New Music Network: Band information, audio files, and photos.
  • The Rock Oasis: Features pictures, news, and tour updates as well as information from the Nashville rock scene.
  • The Rock World: A music site with hard rock, alternative and metal band profiles, lyrics, and discographies, poems, sound files, and links.
  • Zum Online: A paper zine that has grown into a label and online music resource including reviews, interviews, releases and a radio stream featuring artists such as Nuzzle and The Intima, show listings, and links related to indie rock and pop, punk and electronic music.


     from Wikipedia

    Rock music

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Jump to: navigation, search
    Rock music
    Stylistic origins: Rock and roll, ultimately blues (mostly jump blues and Chicago blues), country music and R&B
    Cultural origins: Late 1940s United States
    Typical instruments: Guitar, Bass, Drums, often also Keyboards
    Mainstream popularity: Much, constant and worldwide since the 1950s
    Derivative forms: Alternative rock - Heavy metal - Punk rock
    Subgenres
    Art rock - British rock - Christian rock - Classic Rock - Desert rock - Detroit rock - Experimental rock - Garage rock - Girl group - Glam rock - Glitter rock - Group Sounds - Hard rock - Heartland rock - Instrumental rock - Jam band - Jangle pop - Krautrock - Post-rock - Power pop - Protopunk - Psychedelia - Pub rock (Aussie) - Pub rock (UK) - Rock en español - Russian rock - Soft rock - Southern rock - Surf
    Fusion genres
    Aboriginal rock - Afro-rock - Anatolian rock - Blues-rock - Boogaloo - Country rock - Cumbia rock - Flamenco-rock - Folk rock - Indo-rock - Jazz rock - Madchester - Merseybeat - Progressive rock - Punta rock - Raga rock - Raï rock - Rockabilly - Rockoson - Samba-rock - Space rock - Tango-rockéro
    Regional scenes
    Argentina - Armenia - Australia - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Brazil - Cambodia - Canada - Chile - China - Cuba - Czech Republic - Croatia - Denmark - Dominican Republic - Estonia - Finland - France - Greece - Germany - Hungary - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Latvia - Lithuania - Malaysia - Mexico - Nepal - Netherlands - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovenia - South Africa - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Tatar - Thailand - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom - United States - Uruguay - Vietnam - SFR Yugoslavia - Zambia
    Other topics
    Backbeat - Rock opera - Rock band - Performers - Rock anthem - Hall of Fame - Social impact

    Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or synthesizers. Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include harmonica, violin, flute, banjo and less common stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around guitar, either electric or acoustic.

    Rock music has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which evolved from blues, country music and other influences. According to 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."[1]

    In the late 1960s, rock music was blended with folk music to create folk rock, blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion, and without a time signature to create psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that emerged in the 1980s included synth-rock, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.


    The mid-1950s-early 1960s

    Early British rock

    Main article: British rock

    In the United Kingdom the trade jazz movement brought visiting blues music artists to Britain, While BAC was developing the Concorde, Lonnie Donegan's 1955 hit "Rock Island Line" was a major influence, and helped to develop the trend of skiffle music groups throughout the country, including John Lennon's the Quarry Men, the 1957 precursor to The Beatles. Britain developed a major rock and roll scene, without the race barriers which kept "race records" or rhythm and blues separate in the U.S.

    Cliff Richard had the first British rock 'n' roll hit with "Move It", effectively ushering in the sound of British rock. At the start of the 1960s, his backing group The Shadows was one of a number of groups having success with surf music instrumentals. And while rock 'n' roll was fading into lightweight pop and schmaltzy ballads, at clubs and local dances British rock groups, heavily influenced by blues-rock pioneers like Alexis Korner, were starting to play with an intensity and drive seldom found in white American acts.

    By the end of 1962, the British rock scene had started, with groups drawing on a wide range of American influences including soul music, rhythm and blues and surf music. Initially, they reinterpreted standard American tunes, playing for dancers doing the twist, for example. These groups eventually infused their original rock compositions with increasingly complex musical ideas.

    The Beatles brought together an appealing mix of image, songwriting and personality, and achieved an unprecedented level of worldwide popularity. In mid-1962 The Rolling Stones started as one of a number of groups increasingly showing blues influence, along with The Animals and The Yardbirds. In late 1964, The Kinks, The Who and The Pretty Things represented the new Mod style. Towards the end of the decade, British rock groups began to explore psychedelic musical styles that made reference to the drug subculture and hallucinogenic experiences.

    After their initial success in the UK, the Beatles launched a large-scale US tour to a frenzy of fan interest known as Beatlemania, which spread worldwide with the Beatles' first visit to the US in 1964 including their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964. In the wake of Beatlemania, other British bands headed to the US, notably the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Yardbirds.

    1960s garage rock

    Main article: Garage rock

    The British Invasion spawned a wave of imitators that played mainly to local audiences and made inexpensive recordings, a movement later called garage rock. Some music from this trend is included in the compilation album Nuggets. Some of the better known bands of this genre include The Sonics, Question Mark & the Mysterians, and The Standells.

    1960s Surf music

    Main article: Surf music

    The rockabilly sound influenced a wild, mostly instrumental sound called surf music, though surf culture saw itself as a competing youth culture to rock and roll. This style, exemplified by Dick Dale and The Surfaris, featured faster tempos, innovative percussion, and reverb- and echo-drenched electric guitar sounds. In the UK, British groups included The Shadows. Other West Coast bands, such as The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean slowed the tempos down and added lush harmony vocals to create what became known as the "California Sound".

    Rock as a counterculture movement (1963-1974)

    Main article: Counterculture

    In the late 1950s the US beatnik counterculture was associated with the wider anti-war movement building against the threat of the atomic bomb, notably CND in Britain. Both were associated with the jazz scene and with the growing folk song movement.

    Folk rock

    Main articles: Bob Dylan and Folk rock

    The folk scene was made up of folk music lovers who liked acoustic instruments, traditional songs, and blues music with a socially progressive message. The folk genre was pioneered by Woody Guthrie. Bob Dylan came to the fore in this movement, and his hits with Blowin' in the Wind and Masters of War brought "protest songs" to a wider public.

    The Byrds, who playing Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man, helped to start the trend of folk rock, and helped to stimulate the development of psychedelic rock. Dylan continued, with his "Like a Rolling Stone" becoming a US hit single. Neil Young's lyrical inventiveness and wailing electric guitar attack created a variation of folk rock. Other folk rock artists include Simon & Garfunkel, Joan Baez, The Mamas & the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Bobby Darin and The Band.

    In Britain, Fairport Convention began applying rock techniques to traditional British folk songs, followed by groups such as Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, Pentangle, and Trees. Alan Stivell in Brittany had the same approach.

    Psychedelic rock

    Main article: Psychedelic rock

    Psychedelia began in the folk scene, with the Holy Modal Rounders introducing the term in 1964. With a background including folk and jug band music, the Grateful Dead fell in with Ken Kesey's LSD fuelled Merry Pranksters, playing at their Acid Tests then providing an electric acid rock soundtrack to their Trips Festival of January 1966, together with Big Brother & the Holding Company.

    The Fillmore was a regular venue for groups like another former jug band, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane. Elsewhere, The Byrds had a hit with Eight Miles High. The 13th Floor Elevators titled their album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. The music increasingly became associated with opposition to the Vietnam War.

    In England, Pink Floyd had been developing psychedelic rock since 1965 in the