Californian sextet Linkin Park simultaneously took inspiration from and expanded upon the hybrid of heavy rock, hip-hop, and electronics that made such bands as Korn and Limp Bizkit so successful at the tail end of the 1990s. The band's 2000 debut HY…

Glasgow-via-Belfast indie-rock ensemble Snow Patrol have played everything from shambolic noise-pop a la Pavement, to a slightly droney post-rock in the vein of Mogwai, to epic lovelorn anthems modeled after Coldplay. While the band's influences are …

Though a batch of 1980s-New Wave-inspired bands started making noise in the early 2000s, it wasn't until the Killers' 2004 debut album HOT FUSS that the style really broke through to the mainstream. Heavily indebted to the likes of the Smiths, Psyche…

Musically minimalistic and visually outrageous, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were at the center of the revival of post-punk and garage rock that made New York City a rock & roll hotspot again in the early 2000s. After the success of the Strokes, the trio (led…

Truly a band out of time Australian power trio Wolfmother were conceived in 2000 -- about 30 years too late considering that their psychedelic brand of proto-heavy metal sounds like a ringer for late-60searly-70s bands such as Blue Cheer and Black Sa…

After founding Jerk with a Bomb in the late 90s Stephen McBean had by the mid-2000s transformed the Vancouver-area band into a group called Black Mountain Drawing on blues psychedelia acid rock and the Velvet Underground Black Mountains sound was a c…