Biggest Rock Artists
Originating as “rock and roll” in the United States in the early 1950s, rock music has since become one of the broadest genres in music. This list consists of the rock musicians who have reached rock icon status, their expertise and creativity continuing the nearly 70-year history of the genre.
Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons is a Grammy award-winning alternative rock band which formed in 2008 in La...
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band ro...
The Lumineers
The Lumineers are a folk rock trio which formed in Denver, Colorado, United States in 2002...
Coldplay
Coldplay is a British alternative rock band, formed in London, United Kingdom in 1997. The...
John Mayer
There are two artists with the name John Mayer; American pop singer-songwriter John Clayto...
U2
U2 is rock band from Ireland which formed in 1976 in Dublin, Ireland. Since the band’s f...
X Ambassadors
X Ambassadors are a Brooklyn pop quartet. They released their debut EP Love Songs Drug Son...
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco is American rock band hailing from Las Vegas, Nevada. The current mem...
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock group that formed in London in 1962. First popular ...
Gorillaz
Gorillaz are a British virtual band formed in 1998 by Damon Albarn of Blur, and Jamie He...
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed by singer/guitarist/drummer Dave Grohl in 19...
Kaleo
1) Producer from Buffalo, part of the Roots Of Society crew. Check his music out at: http:...
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is the musical personality of Ben Schneider, a Michigan-born visual arts major ...
Queen
Queen were an English rock band originally consisting of four members: vocalist Freddie Me...
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist...
Journey
Journey is a rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1973. The band enjoyed its greatest...
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English synthpop band, founded in 1980, originally from the town of Ba...
Billy Joel
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York, USA) is an America...
Elton John
Elton John is a British singer-songwriter known for songs such as “Rocket Man,” “Tin...
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is an indie rock band, perhaps most famous for their third studio album, The ...
Highly Suspect
For rock and roll trio Highly Suspect, making and performing music isn’t a hobby, or eve...
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey, United Kingdom) is an...
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is a hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and names...
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy is a band formed in 2001 in Glenview, Illinois after good friends Joe Trohman...
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is a Seattle rock band who helped to define the sound that came to be called g...
Nickelback
Nickelback is a rock band which formed in Hanna, Alberta, Canada in 1995. Nickelback is on...
Sting
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, En...
The 1975
The 1975 are an English pop-rock band originally formed in 2002 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Now...
twenty one pilots
The duo that is Twenty One Pilots -- Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun -- has earned widespread ap...
Metallica
In the Eighties — when big hair and small ideas dominated heavy metal — Metallica's bl...
Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Man is an experimental indie rock four-piece centered on frontman John Baldw...
Guns N' Roses
At a time when pop was dominated by dance music and pop metal, Guns N' Roses brought raw, ...
The Revivalists
The Revivalists are an American rock band that formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2007. ...
Fitz and the Tantrums
Fitz and the Tantrums is an indie pop and neo soul band formed in Los Angeles in 2008. The...
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Formed in the wake of the L.A. punk scene, the Red Hot Chili Peppers combined funk and pun...
Rag'n'Bone Man
Rory Charles Graham, known by his stage name Rag'n'Bone Man, is an English singer-songwrit...
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac is a British-American rock band best known for their 1977 Rumours album, whi...
Zach Williams
Zach Williams is a Grammy award-winning Christian rock artist from Arkansas. From 2007 to ...
Judah & the Lion
Years before forming one of Nashville's most genre-bending bands, the members of Judah & t...
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in 1999, consi...
The xx
Atmospheric English indie pop group the xx formed in London around the talents of Romy Mad...
NEEDTOBREATHE
NEEDTOBREATHE is a Christian rock band from South Carolina. The band has its beginnings in...
The Eagles
The Eagles were formed in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner...
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Palm Desert, California...
