The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band, a benchmark of American southern rock and blues rock.
Bands
Enciclopèdia de bandes: història, formació i discografia, per estils.
Cream
Cream, the first great blues rock power trio, with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker, pioneer of the electric blues guitar and a direct influence on B.B. King and Chuck Berry.
Elmore James
Elmore James, a master of electric slide guitar, known for “Dust My Broom”.
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson, a legendary figure of Mississippi Delta blues, who died at 27.
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, an essential figure of Delta and Detroit electric blues.
B.B. King
B.B. King, “the King of the Blues”, one of the most influential figures of the electric guitar.
Maserati
Maserati, the instrumental post-rock band from Georgia with an electronic pulse.
Chavez
Chavez, the New York math rock and indie rock band of the 1990s.
Slint
Slint, the Louisville band whose album Spiderland is a cornerstone of post-rock and math rock.
Polvo
Polvo, the North Carolina band that pioneered 1990s math rock.
American Football
American Football, the foundational emo and math rock band of the 1990s.
Caspian
Caspian, the American instrumental post-rock band from Massachusetts.
65daysofstatic
65daysofstatic, the British band that fuses post-rock and glitch electronica.
God Is an Astronaut
God Is an Astronaut, the Irish instrumental post-rock band formed by the Kinsella twins.
This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You, the Texan atmospheric, instrumental post-rock band.
Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky, the Texas band that is a global reference in instrumental post-rock.
Kamelot
Kamelot, the American band and a reference in power metal with a symphonic and gothic touch.
Angra
Angra, the Brazilian band that pioneered Latin American power metal.
Helloween
Helloween, one of the founding bands of European power metal.
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian, the German epic power metal band, known for its Tolkien-inspired lyrics.
Nightwish
Nightwish, the Finnish band that is a global reference in symphonic metal.
Sepultura
Sepultura, the Brazilian band that took thrash and groove metal to the world stage.
Anthrax
Anthrax, the New York band among the Big Four of thrash metal, a benchmark of the genre in the 1980s.
Megadeth
Megadeth, Dave Mustaine’s band (ex-Metallica), one of the Big Four of thrash metal.
Slayer
Slayer, one of the Big Four of American thrash metal, a byword for aggression and speed.
Metallica
Metallica, the Los Angeles band that took thrash metal into the stadium.
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard, an essential trumpeter of hard bop and 1970s jazz fusion.
The Eleventh House
The Eleventh House, the jazz fusion band led by guitarist Larry Coryell.
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell, a pioneering jazz fusion guitarist, often called the “godfather” of the genre.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock, one of the great pianists of modern jazz and a jazz-funk pioneer with Head Hunters.
Tony Williams Lifetime
Tony Williams Lifetime, the pioneering jazz fusion band founded by Miles Davis’s drummer.
Present
Present, the Belgian band founded by Roger Trigaux (ex-Univers Zero), a pillar of Rock in Opposition.
Etron Fou Leloublan
Etron Fou Leloublan, the most eccentric French band of Rock in Opposition, a fusion of rock and absurdist theatre.
Stormy Six
Stormy Six, the Milanese progressive rock and political song band, a founding member of Rock in Opposition.
Aksak Maboul
Aksak Maboul, Marc Hollander’s Belgian project, a landmark of Rock in Opposition and the pop avant-garde.
Art Zoyd
Art Zoyd, one of the founding bands of French Rock in Opposition.
Jane
Jane, one of the most popular krautrock and progressive hard rock bands in 1970s Germany.
Panna Fredda
Panna Fredda, one of the first Italian progressive rock bands, with a single cult album.
Biglietto per l’Inferno
Biglietto per l’Inferno, a cult Italian progressive rock band with a single landmark album.