Rock

Swinging rhythm and blues plus country guitar, the first time teens screamed for music of their own.

Wet guitars drenched in spring reverb and fast tremolo picking, like riding into a wave.

Swirling guitar effects, long jams and Indian instruments imitate a mind being opened.

One guitar riff, a big drum kit and one voice can fill a whole stadium.

When everyday identity is too narrow, create a bolder self in the spotlight.

Electric piano, harmonies and gentle guitar: '70s coastal-highway rock, smooth enough to play on a yacht.

The sound of a guitar band with the melody of a pop song: singable choruses and moderate energy, the most common kind of band pop.

Three chords, two minutes, hurling anger and jokes at the wall together.

Faster, shorter, harder: songs barely over a minute, shouted vocals and full-speed drums exploding in a basement.

Fast, sweet and loud: three-chord punk with instantly singable pop choruses.

Offbeat guitar "chk-chk" plus horns, bouncy joy you dance with bent knees.

Teenage heartbreak written loud, sincere to the point of shouting your voice raw.

Hardcore's force plus melody and structural experiment, screams and singing tearing at each other in one song.

Punk opened the door; post-punk began asking what else might lie beyond it.

Punk energy with synth gloss: short, sharp and stylish; much of the 1980s sound starts here.

Not making darkness louder, but giving loneliness a pulse it can keep up.

Puts shadow, theatre and bodily rhythm into the same song.

Cold drum machine, synths and a deep, flat male voice: sitting alone on the roof of a grey apartment block.

Rock off the mainstream path: more honest, rougher and more willing to experiment.

Quiet mumbling, then a sudden explosion; confusion sung dirty and loud.

Britain sung out loud: anthem choruses, guitar pop and working-class swagger.

No need to please everyone, just tell the truth to the people who care.

Clean tapped guitars, odd meters and precise stops, like solving a bright geometry problem.

When the feeling is too big, the sound can melt its outlines first.

Keeps a song's intimacy while making reality feel as touchable as a dream.

Uses a band's sound to write space, time and a journey without lyrics.

Expands rock into works that can hold epics, structure and instrumental exploration.

Rock shouted out of hutong rehearsal rooms: raw, direct, carrying northern wind and poetry.

Fast, intensely melodic and emotionally full, the sound behind countless anime openings.

Music, body and look become a character together, and that character's fragility is sung to the whole venue.

Starting from small stages, personal songwriting and peer networks, it gives a city many sounds that aren't uniformly packaged.