Rock Artists We Lost In 2025…With the beginning of a new year, we close out 2025 with an in memoriam list of music artists who passed away this year. Mick Abrahams (Jethro Tull) died on December 19th, 2025, from...
Rock Music Featured Articles
Here’s where you’ll find some of the best articles on XS ROCK. Featured articles contain some of the site’s cornerstone material and feature a wide variety of musical genres from rock, hard rock, metal, alternative, goth, darkwave, electronic, and more.
Electro Industrial Pioneers Skinny Puppy co-founder Cevin Key has issued the following news regarding his recurrence of cancer: “Hi Guys. So this week I have been at the doctor getting a Biopsy on a suspicious lump on my face....
Accept is one of the most well-known German rock bands worldwide, along with The Scorpions and Rammstein. The band has released 17 studio albums including Accept (1979), I’m a Rebel (1980), Breaker (1981), Restless and Wild (1982), Balls to...
The 90s were the decade of Alternative Rock Music. The styles ranged from folk to grunge, indie, punk, and electronic, among others. The decade saw bands like Nirvana, Garbage, The Goo-Goo Dolls, and Nine Inch Nails take over the...
So, Get Your Mix Tapes Ready To Rock! 80s Rewind Skating World Gets Ready To Go “Back In Time”…For the majority of rock fans, or really any genre of music, our favorite songs accompany most of our favorite activities....
Metallica needs no introduction…as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, they have weathered turmoil, disaster, and heartbreak over their more than 40 years on the scene. The band has had some ups and downs in their...
Since the inception of Gothic Rock, a wide range of bands and artists have presented their take on the music, their visual style, and the culture itself. From Traditional Gothic, Gothic Industrial and Darkwave, Gothic Metal, and even Gothic...
Over 100 Rock Bands From The 70s That You Should Hear… The 1970s was a great time for rock music. The 70s saw a lot more experimentation, which made the music landscape of the decade quite varied, with literally...
Southern rock has been part of the American culture since the 1960s and continues to thrive as a sub-genre of rock music. Often mixing country, blues, and rock together to form what’s been dubbed a “Southern Fried” sound, these...
Industrial music is a unique genre that contains many subgenres. In the beginning, the term industrial was used to describe the sounds made by non-conventional instruments including drills, hammering on metal plates, and electronically distorted sounds and voices. Throbbing...
