MUSIC GENRE REARCH

Rock music is a genre of popular music that was originated as 'Rock and Roll' in United States in the 1950's and developed into a different range of styles in the 1960's in the UK and US. Rock music influenced a number of sub genres, these are:
- Garage rock
- Pop rock
- Blues rock
- Folk rock
- Jazz rock
- Christian rock
- Punk rock
- Indie rock
- Rap rock
and much more.
Key artist/bands that have a big profile in the Rock music genre are the Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Paramore. This is because these bands are currently making new singles and albums.

This is Foo Fighters performing on stage in November 2007, but they are continuing their tours with their songs.

This is Paramore performing in 2010 and these are all the band members, from left to right: Jeremy Davis, Haley Williams and Taylor York.


'KERRANG!' is one of the most common magazine that covers the genre Rock music, they have many competitors, for example, 'Classic Rock', this is a magazine about the latest news on bands that were as famous as the bands in the 21st century. Kerrang covers the sub genre of heavy metal and classic rock is a British magazine covers the sub genre of classic rock.

Cross media for the genre rock is a radio station that is called 'Planet Rock', they are a radio station that covers the latest news on bands and other rock related stuff, they also sell tickets for concerts of well known bands, they have a 'playlist search' to find out what the music single or album they have recently played on their station, where they can either download or purchase their album and finally have a section where people can purchase merchandise.