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| x Classic rock |
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Rock music | Classic metal | Steve Miller Band |
Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the early-1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a large playlist of songs ranging from...
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| x Blues |
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Country | Steve Miller Band |
Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues forms exist, the twelve-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered. Blue notes are sung or played at a slightly...
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| Neotraditional country | Stevie Ray Vaughan | ||||
| Psychobilly | Jimmie Vaughan | ||||
| Psychedelic rock | Grand Funk Railroad | ||||
| Bluegrass | Cream | ||||
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| x Black metal |
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Heavy metal | Folk metal | Negură Bunget |
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure.
During the 1980s, certain thrash metal...
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| Thrash metal | National Socialist black metal | Mercyful Fate | |||
| Ambient music | Viking metal | Grand Belial's Key | |||
| Melodic black metal | Benighted Leams | ||||
| Blackened death metal | Graveland | ||||
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| x Country |
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Old-time music | Country-rap | Cowboy Slim Rinehart |
Country music (or country and western) is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and...
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| Celtic music | Jug band | The Bacon Brothers | |||
| Blues | Alternative country | Old Crow Medicine Show | |||
| Spiritual | Psychobilly | Little Big Town | |||
| Outlaw country | Kevin Sharp | ||||
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| x Christian alternative rock | Christian music | The Prayer Chain |
Christian alternative music (ACM) is a form of hard music which is lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. ACM is not limited to styles such as alternative rock, but also includes rap and hip hop artists. Unlike CCM, ACM generally emphasizes...
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| x Disco |
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Soul music | West Coast hip hop | McFadden & Whitehead |
Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in African American and Hispanic communities in the United States, starting in Philadelphia and later in New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In what is considered a forerunner to disco...
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| New Wave | CHIC | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | Datarock | ||||
| Russian pop | Los Amigos Invisibles | ||||
| House music | The Average White Band | ||||
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| x Drum and bass |
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Ambient music | Techstep | Aphex Twin |
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b;, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass, drum & bass, dNb, deebee), is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 165–185 bpm,...
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| Techno | Clownstep | Freight Elevator Quartet | |||
| Samba | Neurofunk | Future Prophecies | |||
| Darkcore | Downtempo | Pentaphobe | |||
| Breakbeat | Raggacore | TC | |||
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| x Death metal |
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Heavy metal | Brutal death metal | Matt Bachand |
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building off the speed and complexity...
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| Thrash metal | Avant garde metal | Suffocation | |||
| Dark metal | Vader | ||||
| Blackened death metal | Behemoth | ||||
| Deathcore | Nile | ||||
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| x Electronic art music |
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20th century classical music | Electroacoustic music | Josef Anton Riedl |
Electronic art music refers to those forms of electronic music that fall within the general category of art music. The term encompasses a range of experimental music forms, both historical and contemporary, created by means of electronic instrument...
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| Computer music | Enore Zaffiri | ||||
| Live Electronics | Toshiro Mayuzumi | ||||
| x Funk |
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Brown-eyed soul | West Coast hip hop | Rosie Gaines |
Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid to late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B; into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk "de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a...
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| Soul music | Funk metal | Bob. | |||
| Guitar Mashing | New Wave | Danger:Radio | |||
| East Coast hip hop | Mofro | ||||
| Funkcore | Bomba | ||||
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| x Flamenco |
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Sephardic music | Tientos | Paco de Lucía |
Flamenco is a Spanish dance with origins in Andalusian and a term that refers both to a musical genre, known for its intricate rapid passages, and a dance genre characterized by its audible footwork. The origins of the term are unclear. The word...
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| Mozarabic chant | New Flamenco | Sabicas | |||
| Flamenco | Tangos | Enrique Morente | |||
| Alegrías | Camarón de la Isla | ||||
| Siguiriyas | Carmen Linares | ||||
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| x Grindcore |
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Heavy metal | Deathgrind | Painkiller |
Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an extreme music genre that emerged during the mid–1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of...
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| Thrash metal | Goregrind | Mick Harris | |||
| Thrashcore | Power violence | Genghis Tron | |||
| Crust punk | Porn rock | Dahmer | |||
| D-beat | Cripple Bastards | ||||
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| x Heavy metal |
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Psychedelic rock | Funk metal | Led Zeppelin |
Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal...
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| Blues-rock | Progressive metal | Solace | |||
| Hard rock | Black metal | Suicidal Tendencies | |||
| Neo-classical metal | Tommy Lee | ||||
| Alternative metal | Meliah Rage | ||||
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| x House music |
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Soul music | Booty House | Real McCoy |
Funky house is a loose definition for a commercially orientated, disco influenced subgenre of house music. Like most varieties of house, the genre follows a traditional four to the floor house beat, and makes heavy use of synthesizers, samples and...
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| Synthpop | Electronica | Dave Seaman | |||
| Funk | Tribal house | Masters At Work | |||
| Disco | Neurofunk | Zeeteah Massiah | |||
| Electro | Game Boy music | Jody Watley | |||
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| x Mambo | Son montuno | Salsa music | Lou Bega |
Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo (which means conversation with the gods) derives from ki-kongo based language , the language spoken by West-Central African slaves taken to Cuba.
The history of modern mambo begins in...
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| Son | Cha-cha-cha | Pérez Prado | |||
| Big band | Boogaloo | Tego Calderón | |||
| Swing | Pachanga | Lenny Hambro | |||
| Danzón | Beny Moré | ||||
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| x New Wave |
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Glam rock | Synthpop | Terry Bozzio |
New Wave is an inexact term for a rock genre that originated in 1976. The term started as applying to punk rock music. It evolved to cover punk based acts that mixed in other elements. During the 1980s in the United States New Wave became a catch...
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| Disco | Mod Revival | The Cars | |||
| Punk rock | New Romantic | Šarlo Akrobata | |||
| Ska | Electropop | Tubeway Army | |||
| Funk | Synthpunk | Simple Minds | |||
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| x Nu metal |
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Funk metal | Skrape |
Nu metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that emerged in the early-1990s which combines grunge music, alternative metal, funk metal, hip hop, and various other heavy metal influences such as industrial, groove and thrash.
The term "nu metal" was...
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| Alternative metal | Dry Kill Logic | ||||
| Heavy metal | Baroque | ||||
| Rapcore | The Blank Theory | ||||
| Groove metal | Coal Chamber | ||||
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| x Punk rock |
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Glam rock | Gothic rock | Zander Schloss |
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived...
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| Mod | Punkabilly | GG Allin | |||
| Rockabilly | Paisley Underground | Constantines | |||
| Rock music | Funk metal | Tazers | |||
| Hard rock | New Romantic | Solabeat Alliance | |||
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| x Psychedelic rock |
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Folk rock | Goa trance | Steve Miller Band |
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among garage and folk rock...
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| British rock | Paisley Underground | Cream | |||
| Jazz | Art rock | Shalabi Effect | |||
| Garage rock | Kosmische Musik | Spacemen 3 | |||
| Blues | Heavy metal | Justin Heathcliff | |||
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| x Pop music |
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Dance music | New Wave | Steve Miller Band |
Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and a conventional structure.
The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" (see popular music), but...
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| Rhythm and blues | Pop-rap | Sting | |||
| Rock music | Traditional pop music | Cecilia | |||
| Russian pop | Power pop | Toše Proeski | |||
| Pop punk | Kit Chan | ||||
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| x Rock music |
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Rockabilly | Punkabilly | The Police |
Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz, and classical music.
The sound of rock often...
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| Glam rock | Electrico | ||||
| Psychobilly | Alan Murphy | ||||
| Glam punk | Engine 88 | ||||
| Sleaze rock | Mikoto | ||||
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| x Rapcore | Heavy metal | Nu metal | SEV |
Rap rock is a music genre fusing vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rock is often confused with rap metal and rapcore, subgenres that include heavy metal-oriented and hardcore punk-oriented bands, respectively...
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| Techno | Crazy Anglos | ||||
| Grunge music | E-Town Concrete | ||||
| Psychedelic rock | Weapons | ||||
| Punk rock | The X-Ecutioners | ||||
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| x Reggae |
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Rocksteady | Zouk | The Police |
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the...
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| Ska | West Coast hip hop | Solabeat Alliance | |||
| Mento | New Wave | Sounds Like Chicken | |||
| Dub | Soldiers of Jah Army | ||||
| Post-punk | Andrijana Janevska | ||||
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| x Rhythm and blues |
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Black gospel | West Coast hip hop | The Troggs |
Rhythm and Blues (also known as R&B;, R'n'B or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings...
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| Brown-eyed soul | East Coast hip hop | Rosie Gaines | |||
| Soul music | Psychobilly | SOUL'd OUT | |||
| Zouk | Glam punk | McFadden & Whitehead | |||
| Hard bop | Jody Watley | ||||
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| x Samba |
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Samba | Samba | SambaDá |
Samba ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a Brazilian musical genre derived from African and European roots. It is worldwide recognized as a symbol of Brazil and Carnival.
The name samba likely comes from the Angolan semba (or mesemba), a type of ritual...
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| Drum and bass | Nelson Gonçalves | ||||
| Bossa nova | Cibo Matto | ||||
| Samba-canção | Marcelo D2 | ||||
| Samba-enredo | Zeca Pagodinho | ||||
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| x Speed metal |
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Heavy metal | Power metal | Gama Bomb |
Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music originating in the early 1980s, rooted in the NWOBHM and hardcore punk. It is described by the Allmusic site as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music. Also according to Allmusic,...
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| New Wave of British Heavy Metal | Thrash metal | Kylähullut | |||
| Rage | |||||
| Nifelheim | |||||
| Powermad | |||||
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| x Trip hop |
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Electronica | shackgroove | Portishead |
Trip hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound. The trip hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes. It is often rejected as a term...
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| Hip Hop | Trip rock | Moonlight | |||
| Illbient | Karmacoda | ||||
| Mental escape | |||||
| Velure | |||||
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| x Techno |
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Synthpop | Detroit techno | Jeff Mills |
Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but...
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| Industrial music | Minimal techno | Underground Resistance | |||
| Chicago house | Tech house | Carl Craig | |||
| Electro | Acid techno | Richie Hawtin | |||
| Electronic dance music | Trance music | Kevin Saunderson | |||
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| x Trance music |
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Techno | Goa trance | Orbital |
Trance is a style of electronic dance music developed in Germany in the early 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150 BPM, melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that is progressive as...
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| Industrial music | Game Boy music | Toby Emerson | |||
| House music | Uplifting trance | Andy Hunter° | |||
| Electronic dance music | Futurepop | Gabriel & Dresden | |||
| Hardstyle | Brooklyn Bounce | ||||
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| x Glam rock | Garage rock | Gothic rock | The Deadlines |
Glam rock (also known as glitter rock) is a sub-genre of rock music that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s that was "performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots." The...
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| Folk rock | Glam metal | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | |||
| Rock music | Glam punk | Slade | |||
| Punk rock | Sweet | ||||
| New Wave | London | ||||
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| x Britpop |
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Mod | New wave of new wave | Jarvis Cocker |
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
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| Madchester | Lion Pop | Cast | |||
| Glam rock | Grebo | Venini | |||
| Indie rock | Post-punk revival | Ultrasound | |||
| New Wave | Embrace | ||||
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| x Breakbeat hardcore | Breakbeat | Darkcore | Brown Brigade |
Breakbeat hardcore (Rave music) is a derivate of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.
The scene revolved around the M25 motorway (London's orbital motorway), and its audience was...
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| Ragga | 4-beat | Dave Baksh | |||
| Techno | Oldschool jungle | ||||
| Reggae | Drum and bass | ||||
| Italo house | Hardcore Breaks | ||||
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| x Progressive rock |
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Psychedelic rock | Progressive metal | The Raspberries |
Progressive rock (often shortened to prog or prog rock) is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."
Progressive rock bands...
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| Blues-rock | Alternative metal | GARNET CROW | |||
| Hard rock | Art rock | Tiles | |||
| Free jazz | Avant-progressive rock | GoodThunder | |||
| Rock music | Canterbury Scene | Sandhan | |||
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| x Grunge music |
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Punk rock | Post-grunge | Line Lokr |
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal and indie rock,...
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| Hardcore punk | Rapcore | Pond | |||
| Heavy metal | Grunk | Dogstar | |||
| Alternative rock | Oddzar | ||||
| Indie rock | Duman | ||||
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| x Ambient music | Psychedelic rock | Chill out music | Aphex Twin |
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality. Ambient evolved from the early 20th century music of the...
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| 20th century classical music | Psybient | Brian Eno | |||
| Krautrock | Ambient industrial | Dead combo | |||
| Techno | Drum and bass | Deep Forest | |||
| Illbient | Apse | ||||
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| x Bluegrass |
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Progressive Southern Gospel | Jam band | The Stanley Brothers |
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English traditional music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of immigrants from the United Kingdom and...
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| Country | Traditional bluegrass | Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | |||
| Neotraditional country | Progressive bluegrass | Lester Flatt | |||
| Old-time music | Sweet Sunny South | ||||
| Blues | White Ghost Shivers | ||||
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| x Soul music |
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Black gospel | East Coast hip hop | Rosie Gaines |
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the...
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| Rhythm and blues | Mod | Lady Miss Kier | |||
| Gospel music | Jazz-funk | Mofro | |||
| Blues | Brown-eyed soul | Dionne Farris | |||
| Chicago soul | Jody Watley | ||||
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| x Modal jazz | Jazz | Herbie Hancock |
Modal jazz is jazz using musical modes rather than chord progressions as its harmonic framework.
An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. In bebop as well as in hard bop, musicians used chords to provide the background for...
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| x Post-rock |
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Electronica | Post-metal | Shalabi Effect |
Post-rock is a genre of alternative rock characterized by the use of musical instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using rhythms, harmonies, melodies, timbre, and chord progressions that are not usually found in rock tradition. It is...
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| Art rock | Houlton Road Trio | ||||
| Jazz | Soar | ||||
| Shoegazing | Calla | ||||
| Krautrock | By The End Of Tonight | ||||
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| x Progressive metal |
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Progressive rock | Avant garde metal | Negură Bunget |
Progressive metal (sometimes shortened to prog metal) is a fusion genre; a mixture of progressive rock and heavy metal. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time...
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| Heavy metal | Melodic death metal | The Ladies | |||
| Jazz fusion | Symphonic metal | Zach Hill | |||
| Technical death metal | Disillusion | ||||
| Symbyosis | |||||
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| x Breakbeat |
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Hip hop music | Techstep | Mental escape |
Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These...
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| Rave music | Drum and bass | Mechanikal Element Foundation | |||
| Techno | Breakbeat hardcore | Dj Abstract | |||
| Dancehall | Nu skool breaks | Blue Hand | |||
| Broken beat | Brown Brigade | ||||
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| x Hardcore punk |
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Punk rock | Funkcore | Mikoto |
Hardcore punk, often just called hardcore, is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America and the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally thicker, heavier, and faster than earlier punk rock. Early hardcore punk has...
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| Rock Against Communism | Vision of Disorder | ||||
| Thrash metal | Rollins Band | ||||
| Grunge music | Broken Bones | ||||
| Punk blues | Avskum | ||||
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| x Folk metal |
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Black metal | Oriental metal | Elvenking |
Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music. This includes the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser...
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| Heavy metal | Folk metal | Graveland | |||
| Power metal | Medieval rock | Ancient Rites | |||
| Folk music | Stille Volk | ||||
| Folk metal | Silent Stream of Godless Elegy | ||||
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| x Thrash metal |
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Classic metal | Black metal | Slayer |
Thrash metal (sometimes referred to simply as thrash), is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with...
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| Speed metal | Blackened thrash metal | Megadeth | |||
| Heavy metal | Groove metal | Metallica | |||
| Hardcore punk | Crossover thrash | Suicidal Tendencies | |||
| New Wave of British Heavy Metal | Grindcore | Gama Bomb | |||
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| x Progressive psytrance | Microhouse | Ticon |
Progressive psytrance (also referred to as minimal psytrance, psyprog, or simply prog or 'minimal) is a style of psychedelic electronica developed in the early 2000s, developed as a sub-genre of psychedelic and Goa trance. Progressive psytrance is...
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| Progressive electronic music | Perfect Stranger | ||||
| Psychedelic trance | |||||
| x Salsa music |
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Rumba | Vallenato-salsa | Brenda K. Starr |
Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Cuban Caribbean genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians. Salsa incorporates multiple styles and...
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| Son | Songo-salsa | El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico | |||
| Mambo | Timba | Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez | |||
| Son montuno | Charanga-vallenata | Celia Cruz | |||
| Mereng-house | Eddie Santiago | ||||
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| x Electronica | Techno | Dubtronica | Broken Radio |
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not...
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| House music | Chiptune | Kraftwerk | |||
| Experimental classical music | Glitch | Orbital | |||
| Rock music | Intelligent dance music | The Knife | |||
| Electronic music | Bitpop | Remergence | |||
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| x Christian rock |
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Rock music | Christian metal | The Benjamin Gate |
Christian rock is a form of rock music played by bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between...
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| Christian music | Christian punk | My Red Hot Nightmare | |||
| Agnes | |||||
| Titus | |||||
| Widdlesworth | |||||
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| x Industrial music |
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Noise music | Goa trance | Soar |
Industrial music is an experimental music style, often including electronic music, that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists. The Allmusic website defines...
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| Fluxus | Hardcore techno | High Blue Star | |||
| Electronic dance music | Electronic body music | Mursic | |||
| Martial music | Kode IV | ||||
| Techno | Terrorfakt | ||||
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| x Emo |
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Post-hardcore | Screamo | Texas Is the Reason |
Emo (pronounced /ˈiːmoʊ/) is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional...
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| Punk rock | Self Against City | ||||
| Rock music | Christie Front Drive | ||||
| Hardcore punk | Umbrellas | ||||
| Pop rock | Desaparecidos | ||||
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| x Hard rock |
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Psychedelic rock | Classic metal | Alice Cooper |
Hard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass...
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| Rock music | Deathrock | AC/DC | |||
| Neo-Psychedelia | Van Halen | ||||
| Sleaze rock | Deep Purple | ||||
| Heavy metal | Eddie Van Halen | ||||
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| x Gothic rock |
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Punk rock | Gothabilly | Carfax Abbey |
Gothic rock (also referred to as goth rock or simply goth) is a musical subgenre of alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes. The...
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| Glam rock | Dark Cabaret | Gene Loves Jezebel | |||
| Post-punk | Pagan rock | The Sisters of Mercy | |||
| Rock music | Strange Boutique | ||||
| Alternative rock | Theatre of Ice | ||||
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| x Industrial rock |
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Industrial music | Industrial metal | Trent Reznor |
Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused. The early fusions of industrial music and rock were practiced by a handful of post...
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| Punk rock | Von Thronstahl | ||||
| Electronic body music | Angelspit | ||||
| Hard rock | Slick Idiot | ||||
| Alternative rock | Hanzel und Gretyl | ||||
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| x Deathrock |
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Punk rock | Dark Cabaret | Theatre of Ice |
Deathrock (or death punk) is a term used to identify a fusion of punk rock and gothic rock which incorporates elements of horror and spooky atmospheres. It first emerged in the West Coast of the United States and London during the late 1970s and...
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| Glam rock | Gothabilly | The Last Days of Jesus | |||
| Post-punk | 45 Grave | ||||
| Hard rock | Specimen | ||||
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| x Synthpop | New Wave | New Romantic | De/Vision |
Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop...
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| Industrial music | Techno | Monolithic | |||
| Pop music | Detroit techno | Lowe | |||
| Post-punk | House music | Colony 5 | |||
| Electronic dance music | Electropop | I Am the World Trade Center | |||
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| x Post-punk |
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Glam rock | Gothic rock | Garrison |
Post-punk is a popular musical movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental....
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| World music | Deathrock | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | |||
| Punk rock | Dark Cabaret | Gene Loves Jezebel | |||
| Krautrock | Punk blues | The Sisters of Mercy | |||
| Dub | Madchester | Theatre of Ice | |||
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| x Indie rock | Psychobilly | Alternative metal | The Shins |
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. Indie rock musicians are typically unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels. Genres or...
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| Post-punk | Geek rock | Texas Is the Reason | |||
| Rock music | Grunge music | Constantines | |||
| Alternative rock | New Prog | Engine 88 | |||
| Britpop | The Show is the Rainbow | ||||
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Goa trance | Dark psytrance | Mindelight |
Psychedelic trance or psytrance is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and mesmerizing melodies. It first broke out into the mainstream in 1995 as the UK music press began to report on the exploding...
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| Psychedelic rock | Progressive psytrance | Entheogenic | |||
| Instrumental rock | Melodic psytrance | Vibe Tribe | |||
| Industrial music | Psybient | Kick Bong | |||
| Acid house | Suomisaundi | X-Dream | |||
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| x Garage rock | Psychobilly | Paisley Underground | The Troggs |
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the early 1970s, some rock...
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| Mod | Glam rock | The Second Guess | |||
| Rockabilly | Psychobilly | The Tah Dahs | |||
| Soul music | Glam punk | Key Witness | |||
| Surf rock | Psychedelic rock | The Ugly Ducklings | |||
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| x Calypso music | Kaiso | Oratorical calypso | Mighty Terror |
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago.
The islands had a core population of descendants of African slaves and workers and remnants of the indigenes, while colonial masters changed rapidly bringing...
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| Chut-kai-pang | YOUR SONG IS GOOD | ||||
| Soca music | Mighty Sparrow | ||||
| Rapso | David Rudder | ||||
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