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A Musical genre represents a style or classification of music and can be useful in identifying similar musical artists or albums. Genres can also contain other genres, or be influenced by other genres. The genre of a Musical Artist or Musical Album is a somewhat subjective matter, and there is no... more
   
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x Classic rock Ken Hensley playing with Uriah Heep at the Magician's Birthday Party 2001 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...
Led Zeppelin
Cream
Barclay James Harvest
Deadline
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x Blues MuddyWaters.jpg   Country Steve Miller Band
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and...
Neotraditional country Stevie Ray Vaughan
Psychobilly Jimmie Vaughan
Psychedelic rock Grand Funk Railroad
Bluegrass Cream
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x Black metal /wikipedia/images/en_id/671488 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...
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 C150E-Country-Music-Rect.jpg 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...
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 alternative rock music that 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 and Christian...
Lifehouse
Kutless
Plumb
The Fold
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x Disco ABC Disco Ball 1 Soul music West Coast hip hop McFadden & Whitehead
Disco is a genre of dance music that that had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While disco was a form of black commercial...
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 Goldie at a 2003 rave in the USA 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 160–190 bpm,...
Techno Clownstep Freight Elevator Quartet
Samba Neurofunk Future Prophecies
Darkcore Downtempo Pentaphobe
Breakbeat Raggacore TC
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x Death metal Cannibal Corpse performing at 9:30 Club in 2007 Heavy metal Brutal death metal Matt Bachand
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes. Building off the speed and complexity of thrash...
Thrash metal Avant garde metal Suffocation
Dark metal Vader
Blackened death metal Behemoth
Deathcore Nile
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x Electronic art music Telharmonium console by Thaddeus Cahill 1897. 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...
Computer music Enore Zaffiri
Live Electronics Toshiro Mayuzumi
x Funk George Clinton with rainbow dreads at the VH1 Fashion Awards Brown-eyed soul West Coast hip hop Rosie Gaines
Funk is an American music genre that originated in the 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 strong rhythmic...
Soul music Funk metal Bob.
Guitar Mashing New Wave Danger:Radio
East Coast hip hop Mofro
Funkcore Bomba
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x Flamenco Bailaora (dancer) of Flamenco Belén Maya, photograph taken by Gilles Larrain at his studio, 2001 Sephardic music Tientos Paco de Lucía
Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre with origins in Andalusia. modern flamenco could best be described as Spanish neoclassical although the Flamenco art is now quite international. It can be both a musical form, known for its intricate rapid...
Mozarabic chant New Flamenco Sabicas
Flamenco Tangos Enrique Morente
Alegrías Camarón de la Isla
Siguiriyas Carmen Linares
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x Grindcore Squash Bowles Heavy metal Deathgrind Painkiller
Grindcore, sometimes 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...
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 Example of a heavy metal riff using several types of Power chord: The main riff of Megadeth'sAddicted to Chaos 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...
Blues-rock Progressive metal Solace
Hard rock Black metal Suicidal Tendencies
Emo Neo-classical metal Tommy Lee
Rock music Alternative metal Meliah Rage
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x House music Paradise garage Soul music Booty House Real McCoy
House is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American and Latino American, French and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in...
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...
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 The cover of Blondie's album Parallel Lines depicts the band wearing classic New Wave fashions Glam rock Synthpop Terry Bozzio
New Wave is a genre of rock and pop music that emerged in in the middle to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of...
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 Korn MTV Asia Awards 2006 Funk metal   Skrape
Nu metal is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends heavy metal elements with other musical styles, such as hip-hop and grunge. The term "nu metal" was first used for a review of a mid-October 1995 Coal Chamber...
Alternative metal Dry Kill Logic
Heavy metal Baroque
Rapcore The Blank Theory
Groove metal Coal Chamber
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x Punk rock Cover of the Ramones' critically acclaimed debut album 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...
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 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover 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 psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among garage and folk rock...
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 Elvis Presley in 1957 Dance music New Wave Steve Miller Band
Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively...
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 Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival Rockabilly Punkabilly The Police
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music. The sound of rock often...
Glam rock Electrico
Psychobilly Alan Murphy
Glam punk Engine 88
Sleaze rock Mikoto
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x Rapcore   Heavy metal Nu metal SEV
Rapcore is a subgenre of rap rock fusing vocal and sometimes instrumental elements of hip hop with punk rock, often hardcore punk. Rapcore shares traits with rap rock and rap metal, and music often overlaps between the categories. These styles...
Techno Crazy Anglos
Grunge music E-Town Concrete
Psychedelic rock Weapons
Punk rock The X-Ecutioners
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x Reggae בוג'ו בנטון בהופעה 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...
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 Mary J. Blige 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...
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 Pandeiro and cavaco, the nucleus of common samba instrumentation Samba Samba SambaDá
Samba ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in African and European roots. The word is derived from the Portugese verb sambar, meaning "to dance to rhythm." It is a worldwide recognized symbol of Brazil and...
Drum and bass Nelson Gonçalves
Bossa nova Cibo Matto
Samba-canção Marcelo D2
Samba-enredo Zeca Pagodinho
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x Speed metal Motörhead – No Sleep 'til Hammersmith 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. It is described by the Allmusic site as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music. Also according to Allmusic, speed metal...
New Wave of British Heavy Metal Thrash metal Kylähullut
Rage
Nifelheim
Powermad
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x Trip hop Massive Attack's Mezzanine album cover 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...
Hip Hop Trip rock Moonlight
Psychedelic music Illbient Karmacoda
Mental escape
Velure
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x Techno Image-Belville4 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...
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 Eternal trance.jpg Techno Goa trance Orbital
Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track....
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 style 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 flamboyant costumes...
Folk rock Glam metal Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Rock music Glam punk Slade
Punk rock Sweet
New Wave London
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x Britpop Britpop 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...
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...
Ragga 4-beat Dave Baksh
Techno Oldschool jungle
Reggae Drum and bass
Italo house Hardcore Breaks
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x Progressive rock "I Talk to the Wind" cover Psychedelic rock Progressive metal The Raspberries
Progressive rock (also, prog or prog rock) is a subgenre 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 pushed ...
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 Green River circa 1987 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,...
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. It can be reasonably argued that ambient music has roots that...
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 Bluegrass group jamming 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 roots in Irish, West African, Scottish, Welsh and English traditional music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of immigrants from the United Kingdom and...
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 Cover of Sam Cooke's landmark 1964 album, Ain't That Good News 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...
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 that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework. An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. In bebop as well as in hard bop, musicians use chords to provide the background...
Jackie McLean
Horace Silver
Wayne Shorter
Elvin Jones
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x Post-rock Mogwai-799171169 Electronica Post-metal Shalabi Effect
Post-rock is a genre of rock music 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 the...
Art rock Houlton Road Trio
Jazz Soar
Shoegazing Calla
Krautrock By The End Of Tonight
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x Progressive metal دریم تیتر 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...
Heavy metal Melodic death metal The Ladies
Jazz fusion Symphonic metal Zach Hill
Technical death metal Disillusion
Symbyosis
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x Breakbeat Fatboy Slim's "Big Beach Boutique II"-festival op het strand van Brighton, 2002 Rave 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...
Techno Drum and bass Mechanikal Element Foundation
Dancehall Breakbeat hardcore Dj Abstract
Hip Hop Nu skool breaks Blue Hand
Broken beat Brown Brigade
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x Hardcore punk Black Flag, June 1985 Punk rock Funkcore Mikoto
Hardcore punk, often just called hardcore, is a subgenre of punk rock that originated primarily in North America (though, early examples could be found throughout the world) in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally faster, thicker, and heavier...
Rock Against Communism Vision of Disorder
Thrash metal Rollins Band
Grunge music Broken Bones
Punk blues Avskum
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x Folk metal Hammerheart cover 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...
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 The Combat Records "incorrect" version of Vic Rattlehead Classic metal Black metal Slayer
Thrash metal is a 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 shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often...
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...
Progressive electronic music Perfect Stranger
Psychedelic trance
x Salsa music A tenor trombone 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 Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians. Salsa incorporates multiple styles and...
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...
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 Larry Norman 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 Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Much...
Christian music Christian punk My Red Hot Nightmare
Agnes
Titus
Widdlesworth
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x Industrial music 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle 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...
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 Fringe 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...
Punk rock Heavy metal Self Against City
Rock music Christie Front Drive
Hardcore punk Umbrellas
Pop rock Desaparecidos
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x Hard rock "I Can't Quit You Baby" cover 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...
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 Bauhaus concert Punk rock Gothabilly Carfax Abbey
Gothic rock (also referred to as goth rock or simply goth) is a musical subgenre of Post-Punk and 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...
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 Killing Joke 2007 Industrial music Industrial metal Trent Reznor
Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses electro-industrial 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...
Punk rock Von Thronstahl
Electronic body music Angelspit
Hard rock Slick Idiot
Alternative rock Hanzel und Gretyl
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x Deathrock Dinah Cancer and other deathrockers at Release the Bats. Punk rock Dark Cabaret Theatre of Ice
Deathrock or deathpunk is a term used to identify a sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics, that emerged on the West Coast of the United States in 1979. Deathrock songs use simple chords, echoing guitars, a...
Glam rock Gothabilly The Last Days of Jesus
Post-punk 45 Grave
Hard rock Specimen
Rock music Drop Dead Festival
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x Synthpop   New Wave New Romantic De/Vision
Synthpop is a subgenre of pop and electronic music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It originated during the New Wave era of the late 1970s and to mid-1980s, and it has continued to exist and develop ever since. Synthpop...
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 Sonic1991b 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....
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 rock music that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. The term is often used to describe the means of production and distribution of independent underground music, as well as the style of music...
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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x Psychedelic trance Simon Posford performing at the Soulclipse Festival Goa trance Dark psytrance Mindelight
Psychedelic trance or psytrance is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. It first broke out into the mainstream in 1995 as the UK music press...
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...
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...
Chut-kai-pang YOUR SONG IS GOOD
Soca music Mighty Sparrow
Rapso David Rudder
Young Brigade Mighty Gabby
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