Rockissue

The new century would, at least ostensibly, bring further confirmation that Rock's time as the dominant commercial force in popular music had passed: among other factors, "Electronic Dance Music" finally reached the American masses unlike the aborted "Electronica" moment of 1996-1997; and Hip Hop morphed with the pop mainstream, the two becoming difficult to distinguish in the Twenty-Teens. Rock did remain a money-making factor in the realm of live performance, especially older acts. Then again, given how important concerts had newly become (due to the decline of recordings as distinct entities to be purchased individually) was Rock so dead after all? Regardless, the Rock music one will find listed here is comprised of, in this writer's opinion, rare moments of brilliance in a hazy field of drab... non-entities! Rock music in the new century has been split between two overlapping tendencies. First, the new, mainstream understanding of "Indie," both more amateurish/ fringe than ever, with self-released artists possessing little prospect of commercial success crowding out established independent labels, but also bizarrely trending toward cutesy, soundtrack-ready pap, well suited to a mass culture increasingly addicted to televisual entertainment. And second, what remains of commercially-relevant Rock: post-Grunge "Modern [Hard] Rock"; groups tied to the "Jam Band" scene; and of course those aging Rock veterans filling up arenas (in rare cases), theatres, and Las Vegas casinos, paying tribute to themselves.

For the Aughts, 38 tracks are listed, 149 albums. The totals through 2009 are 2119 tracks, 2737 albums.

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twenty-five albums

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U. F. O. - La Nòvia

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Bablicon - The Cat That Was a Dog A Flat Inside a Fog

Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun

Centro-Matic - All the Falsest Hearts Can Try

Centro-Matic - South San Gabriel Songs/ Music

D'Angelo - Voodoo

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Elf Power - The Winter Is Coming

The Fall - The Unutterable

The For Carnation

Alastair Galbraith - Cry

The Glands

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

P. J. Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Immolation - Close to a World Below

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

Primal Scream - Exterminator

Radiohead - Kid A

Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory

Smog - Dongs of Sevotion

Super Furry Animals - Mwng

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Yo la Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

three singles and deep cuts

Nelly Furtado - 'I'm like a Bird', Whoa, Nelly!

NSYNC - 'Bye Bye Bye', No Strings Attached

Britney Spears - 'Oops!... I Did It Again', Oops!... I Did It Again

twelve archival and compilation albums

Chet Atkins - Guitar Legend: The RCA Years

The Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family

The Dils - Class War

Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat (1928-1929)

Gatemouth Moore - Hey Mr. Gatemouth: Complete King Recordings

The Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 1 1926-1927

The Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 2 1927-1928

The Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 3 1925-1929

The Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 4 1929-1930

The Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 5 1930-1934

The Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 6 1934

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - San Antonio Rose