Rock music

A genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness.

A rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 typically composed of short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.

A subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s fusing elements of punk rock and heavy metal, such as distorted electric guitars. Lyrics are typically angst-filled, addressing themes such as social alienation, apathy, confinement, and a desire for freedom.

A rock music subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as an attempt to give greater artistic credibility to rock music. Songs were replaced by musical suites that often stretched to 20 or 40 minutes in length and contained symphonic influences, extended musical themes, fantasy-like ambience and lyrics, and complex orchestrations.

A genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music.

A style of rock music influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD. It often uses new recording techniques and effects and sometimes draws on sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music.