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Rock music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6712 words) |
 | In the United Kingdom the Trad jazz movement brought visiting blues music artists and Lonnie Donegan's 1955 hit "Rock Island Line" began Skiffle music groups throughout the country, including John Lennon's "The Quarry Men" formed in March 1957 as a precursor to The Beatles. |
| If punk rock was a social and musical phenomenon, it garnered little in the way of record sales (small specialty labels such as Stiff Records had released much of the punk music to date) or American radio airplay, as the radio scene continued to be dominated by mainstream formats such as disco and album-oriented rock. |
| Currently popular rock trends include a style of pop-punk that is often referred to as emo (though some disagree with that label), which draws its style from softer punk and alternative rock styles from the 1980s. |
| Timeline of trends in music (2000-present) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2469 words) |
| This style of music is sometimes referred to as NuPop. |
| Individuality in music increases as the decade rolls along, especially in 2002, 2004, and 2006 as singer-songwriters and solo artists enter the music industry. |
| While British dance and electronic music starts entering a crisis from which has not really recovered by the middle of the decade, Germany (especially the city of Berlin) becomes the new hotbed of the genre. |
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