Best indie rock bands of all time 1. Pavement Photograph: Courtesy Matador Records | | The most ineffably indie-rock band of all time, and not just because pretty much every indie band that picked up a guitar after 1992’s Slanted and Enchanted was copying them on some level. Frontman...
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One rule at the outset: No more than one solo from any one player, so a couple of members of well-known bands are represented by their greatest guest appearances. When in doubt, we opted for the most memorable solo, whether it’s part of a classic song or great overall performance. Ev...
While some post-hardcore bands would be focused on the dour parts of growing up, Long Island outfit Taking Back Sunday punched up the choruses and lightened the lyrics of their screamo brethren to get as close as the genre could to party music. With the band chugging along at breakneck spe...
Arguably Led Zeppelin's finest moment, this was the record with the perfect blend of what made them one of the greatest bands of all time. Pure rock and roll thrills (literally, on track two), gentle folk and bulldozing hard rock. And, of course, in the case of Stairway To Heaven -...
The song is bitter but at the same time emotional and even a bit dreamy. All in all, if you’re making an emocore playlist, you should definitely include Thursday. Thursday is regarded as one of the most influential post-hardcore bands of the 2000s. 22. “That’s What You Get” by...
By 1981,KISS had spent the better part of a decade dominating as one of biggest hard rock bands around. They’d also tapped into other styles – namely, disco and power pop – to mixed results. While artists should almost always be commended for trying something new, the quartet were clea...
of 10 Tortoise 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die' (1996) Amazon A crew of Chicago scenesters who'd done time in scores of hardcore bands, Tortoise used their budding project as a place to push the parameters of sound, building compositions out ofbass, percussion, studio cut-ups, and exp...