to rockmusic for the year of 2012. A number of late 2011 released rock albums stay in the top 10 of the US all-format Billboard 200 albums chart in January...
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range...
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the...
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rockmusic that evolved from the independent music underground...
performers of rockmusic and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely...
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rockmusic that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first...
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rockmusic typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s...
of music that emerged after punk rock. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many contemporary popular music styles...
Christian rock is a form of rockmusic that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed...
regarded as classical music. In the 1960s, music journalism began more prominently covering popular music like rock and pop after the breakthrough of The Beatles...
British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom. Since around 1964, with the "British Invasion" of the United States...
events and trends in popular musicin the 1980s. The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell...
genre of rockmusic that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic...
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected...
Ukrainian rock (Ukrainian: Український рок, romanized: Ukrayinsʹkyy rok) is rockmusic from Ukraine. While it is rock it is important for those who follow...
kosmische Musik, German for "cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It...
Indie rock is a subgenre of rockmusic that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term...
alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume. It emerged in Ireland...
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late...
Belgian rock refers to rockmusic produced in Belgium or written and performed by Belgian musicians. It was originally inspired by rock and roll music from...
rockmusic was also very popular in the 1990s, yet, unlike the new wave and glam metal-dominated scene of the time, grunge, Britpop, industrial rock,...
Glam rock is a style of rockmusic that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by male musicians who wore flamboyant and...
Rockmusic of Canada is a wide and diverse part of the general music of Canada, beginning with American and British style rock and roll in the mid-20th...
Zhōngguó yáogǔn yīnyuè, lit. "Chinese rock and roll music") is a wide variety of rock and roll music made by rock bands and solo artists from Mainland...
Initially referred to as Jesus music, today, the term is typically used to refer to pop, but also includes rock, alternative rock, hip hop, metal, contemporary...
Rockmusicin Ireland, also known as Irish rock, has been a part of the music of Ireland since the 1960s, when the British Invasion brought British blues...