This is an alphabetical list of mainstream rock performers spanning all subgenres and fusions within the genre of rock music. Artists included are known for creating material predominantly within a style of rock music have enjoyed considerable success on singles or album charts; recorded multiple songs that have endured or increased in popularity over time and continue to receive heavy airplay, streaming or downloads; and garnered a significant following. Solo artists are sorted by surname.
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10cc 10 Years 3 Doors Down 311 .38 Special
A
ABBA AC/DC Accept Bryan Adams Aerosmith AFI Air Supply The Alan Parsons Project Alice in Chains The All-American Rejects The Allman Brothers Band Alter Bridge Ambrosia America The Animals Adam Ant Anthrax April Wine Arcade Fire Arctic Monkeys Asia Audioslave Avenged Sevenfold Awolnation
B
The B-52s Bachman–Turner Overdrive Bad Company Badfinger The Band The Bangles Barenaked Ladies Bay City Rollers The Beach Boys Beastie Boys The Beatles Bee Gees Beck Ben Folds Five Pat Benatar Chuck Berry The Big Bopper Billy Talent The Black Crowes The Black Keys Black Sabbath Black Stone Cherry Black Veil Brides Blink-182 Blondie (band) Bloodhound Gang Blue October Blue Öyster Cult Blues Traveler James Blunt Blur Bon Jovi Boston David Bowie Bowling for Soup The Boxtones Boys Like Girls Bread Breaking Benjamin Bring Me the Horizon Jackson Browne Buckcherry Jeff Buckley Bullet for My Valentine Chris de Burgh Bush The Byrds
C
The Cab Cage the Elephant Cake Canned Heat Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band The Cardigans The Cars Catfish and the Bottlemen Harry Chapin Tracy Chapman Cheap Trick Chevelle Chicago Chubby Checker Cinderella City and Colour Eric Clapton The Clash Eddie Cochran Joe Cocker Coheed and Cambria Cold Chisel Coldplay Collective Soul Phil Collins Alice Cooper Alice Cooper (band) Chris Cornell Elvis Costello Counting Crows The Cranberries Crash Test Dummies Cream Creed Creedence Clearwater Revival Jim Croce Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Christopher Cross Sheryl Crow Crowded House The Cult The Cure
D
Damn Yankees Charlie Daniels Dashboard Confessional Daughtry The Dave Clark Five Dave Matthews Band Days of the New Death Cab for Cutie Deep Purple Def Leppard Deftones Depeche Mode Bo Diddley Dio Dire Straits Disturbed Fats Domino Donovan The Doobie Brothers The Doors Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show Dropkick Murphys Drowning Pool Duran Duran Ian Dury & the Blockheads Bob Dylan
E
Eagles Echo & the Bunnymen Duane Eddy The Edgar Winter Group Electric Light Orchestra Emerson, Lake & Palmer England Dan & John Ford Coley Melissa Etheridge Europe Eurythmics (band) Evanescence Everclear Everlast The Everly Brothers Extreme
F
Faces Faith No More Fall Out Boy Bryan Ferry Filter Finger Eleven FireHouse Five Finger Death Punch Five for Fighting The Fixx The Flaming Lips Fleetwood Mac Flogging Molly Florence + the Machine Flyleaf Foals Dan Fogelberg John Fogerty Foo Fighters Foreigner Foster the People The Four Seasons Peter Frampton Franz Ferdinand The Fray Glenn Frey Fuel The Fugs Fun.
Funkadelic
G
Peter Gabriel Garbage Genesis Ghost Gin Blossoms Gary Glitter The Go-Go's Godsmack Golden Earring Goo Goo Dolls Good Charlotte Grand Funk Railroad Grateful Dead Great White Green Day Greta Van Fleet The Guess Who Guns N' Roses
H
Halestorm Bill Haley & His Comets Hall & Oates George Harrison Heart Jimi Hendrix Don Henley Herman's Hermits Highly Suspect Hinder The Hives Hole The Hollies Buddy Holly Hoobastank Hootie & the Blowfish
I
Icehouse Billy Idol Imagine Dragons Incubus Interpol INXS Iron Maiden
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The J. Geils Band The Jam Tommy James and the Shondells Jane's Addiction Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship The Jesus and Mary Chain Jet Jethro Tull Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Jimmy Eat World Billy Joel Elton John Janis Joplin Journey Joy Division Judas Priest
K
Kaiser Chiefs Kaleo Kansas Keane Kid Rock The Killers Killswitch Engage Kings of Leon The Kinks Kiss Korn Lenny Kravitz
L
Lacuna Coil Lamb of God Avril Lavigne Led Zeppelin John Lennon Huey Lewis and the News Jerry Lee Lewis Lifehouse Limp Bizkit Linkin Park Little Richard Little River Band Live Living Colour Kenny Loggins Loverboy The Lovin' Spoonful The Lumineers Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
The Mamas & the Papas Manfred Mann Manfred Mann (musician) Manfred Mann's Earth Band Manfred Mann Chapter Three Marilyn Manson Marilyn Manson (band) The Marshall Tucker Band Matchbox Twenty John Mayer John Mayall John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Paul McCartney Meat Loaf Megadeth John Mellencamp Men at Work Metallica Midnight Oil Mike + the Mechanics Modest Mouse Eddie Money The Monkees Montgomery Gentry The Moody Blues Alanis Morissette Van Morrison Morrissey The Mothers of Invention Mötley Crüe Motörhead Mudvayne Mumford & Sons Michael Martin Murphey Muse My Chemical Romance
N
New York Dolls Nickelback Stevie Nicks Harry Nilsson Nine Inch Nails Nirvana No Doubt Ted Nugent
O
Oasis The Offspring OneRepublic Roy Orbison Ozzy Osbourne Our Lady Peace The Outfield
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P.O.D. Panic! at the Disco Pantera Papa Roach Paramore Parliament (band) Parliament-Funkadelic Pearl Jam A Perfect Circle Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Pink Floyd Pixies Robert Plant Poison The Police Iggy Pop Pop Evil The Presidents of the United States of America The Pretenders Elvis Presley The Pretty Reckless Primus Puddle of Mudd
Q
Queen Queens of the Stone Age Queensrÿche Quiet Riot
R
R.E.M. Radiohead Rage Against the Machine Rainbow Rammstein Ramones Ratt Red Hot Chili Peppers Lou Reed REO Speedwagon Chris Rea Rise Against Sixto Rodriguez The Rolling Stones Linda Ronstadt Roxy Music Royal Blood Run-DMC Rush Mitch Ryder
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Saliva Sam Fender Santana Joe Satriani Saving Abel Scorpions The Script Seether Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Sepultura Sex Pistols Shakin' Stevens Shinedown Silverchair Simon & Garfunkel Simple Minds Simple Plan Skid Row Skillet Slade Slayer Slipknot Sly and the Family Stone Small Faces Smash Mouth The Smashing Pumpkins The Smiths Smokie Snow Patrol Social Distortion Sonic Youth Soundgarden Bruce Springsteen Billy Squier Staind Ringo Starr Starset Starship Status Quo Steely Dan Steppenwolf Steve Miller Band Rod Stewart Sting The Stone Roses Stone Sour Stone Temple Pilots The Strokes Styx Sublime Sublime with Rome Sum 41 Supertramp Survivor Sweet System of a Down
T
T. Rex Talking Heads James Taylor Ten Years After Tenacious D Tesla Theory of a Deadman Thin Lizzy Third Eye Blind Thirty Seconds to Mars George Thorogood and the Destroyers Thousand Foot Krutch Three Days Grace Three Dog Night Tool Toto Traffic The Tragically Hip Train The Traveling Wilburys Travis Trivium Twenty One Pilots Twisted Sister
U
U2 UB40 Ugly Kid Joe Uriah Heep The Used
V
Steve Vai Ritchie Valens Vampire Weekend Van Halen Van Zant (band) Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Velvet Revolver The Velvet Underground The Verve Gene Vincent Volbeat
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Joe Walsh Warrant W.A.S.P. (band) Weezer Jack White The White Stripes White Zombie Whitesnake The Who Wings Steve Winwood
X X (American band) X Ambassadors
Y
The Yardbirds Yes Neil Young
Z
Frank Zappa Rob Zombie The Zombies ZZ Top
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