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Blondie Blondie was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the much-vaunted punk/new wave movement of the late '70s. The group was formed in...
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The Cars Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful...
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Cheap Trick Combining a love for British guitar pop songcraft with crunching power chords and a flair for the absurd, Cheap Trick provided the necessary links...
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The Clash The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were...
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Elvis Costello When Elvis Costello's first record was released in 1977, his bristling cynicism and anger linked him with the punk and new wave explosion. A...
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Garbage Garbage built on the sonic landscapes of My Bloody Valentine, Curve, and Sonic Youth, adding a distinct sense of accessible pop songcraft. Garbage...
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Joe Jackson In his 1999 memoir, A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in...
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Joan Jett By playing pure and simple rock & roll without making an explicit issue of her gender, Joan Jett became a figurehead for several generations of...
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Tom Petty Upon the release of their first album in the late '70s, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were shoehorned into the punk/new wave movement by some...
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Liz Phair Growing out of the American underground of the late '80s, Liz Phair fused lo-fi indie rock production techniques and styles with the sensibility...
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The Police Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky,...
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Iggy Pop There's a reason why many consider Iggy Pop the godfather of punk -- every single punk band of the past and present has either knowingly or...
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Lou Reed The career of Lou Reed defies capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he has made over his image many...
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Bob Dylan Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from...
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Jimi Hendrix In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since....
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The Kinks Although they weren't as boldly innovative as the Beatles or as popular as the Rolling Stones or the Who, the Kinks were one of the most...
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The Ramones The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and...
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The Rolling Stones By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an...
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The Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols may have only been together for two years in the late '70s, but they changed the face of popular music. Through their raw,...
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The Who Few bands in the history of rock & roll were riddled with as many contradictions as the Who. All four members had wildly different personalities,...
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Neil Young After Neil Young left the Californian folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential and...
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Fiona Apple Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple gained a recording contract in 1995 as one in a crop of mid-'90s female artists, but her confessional writing and...
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Tracy Bonham Tracy Bonham is a singer and classically trained violinist who incorporates both skills into her pop compositions. Her debut EP, The Liverpool...
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Bratmobile Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot-grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within...
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The Breeders One of alternative rock's most promising -- and frustrating -- bands, the Breeders were conceived initially as a way for Pixies bassist Kim Deal...
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The Cliks Gutsy, melodic, dramatic, and dark, Toronto's the Cliks arrived on the scene in 2007 with two strong bullet points. First, they covered Justin...
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Garbage Garbage built on the sonic landscapes of My Bloody Valentine, Curve, and Sonic Youth, adding a distinct sense of accessible pop songcraft. Garbage...
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Hole Throughout Hole's career, vocalist/guitarist Courtney Love's notorious public image has overshadowed her band's music. In their original...
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The Like Los Angeles' the Like features Charlotte Froom (bass), Tennessee Thomas (drums), and Z. Berg (vocals). The indie rock trio, which is influenced by...
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Alanis Morissette Alanis Morissette was one of the most unlikely stars of the mid-'90s. A former child actress turned dance-pop diva, Morissette later transformed...
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Liz Phair Growing out of the American underground of the late '80s, Liz Phair fused lo-fi indie rock production techniques and styles with the sensibility...
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The Pixies Combining jagged, roaring guitars and stop-start dynamics with melodic pop hooks, intertwining male-female harmonies and evocative, cryptic...
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Sleater-Kinney The anthemic Olympia, WA-based punk trio Sleater-Kinney formed from the ashes of Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, a pair of groups that rode the...
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Sonic Youth Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were...
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Waz Raised on the Pretenders, Electric Light Orchestra, Neil Young, and other musicians from his parents' record collection and inspired by a 10cc...
