There's always been a psychedelic edge to Rob Garza & Eric Hilton's Thievery Corporation project, while their fascination with dub rhythms & world music remains intact. Video: ÒWarning ShotsÓ.
Year: 2006 Courtesy of ESL Music
Merging unparalleled musical bravery, prodigious musicianship, flawless execution and an angular landscape of forward thinking ideas, DILLINGER reinvent the rock 'n roll idiom while pleasing their harshest critics: themselves.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Rive Video Promotion
Smashing Pumpkins's rise to fame was helped by the success of early songs like "Today", whose rich textures and adventurous arrangements separated them from the grunge pack.
Year: 1993 Courtesy of Virgin Records
Silversun Pickups dip into 90's alternative revival, combining early Ô90s shoegazer tones with good pop songwriting. Check out their video for "Well Thought Out Twinkles".
Year: 2006 Courtesy of Videostatic / DLJ Video
Oasis wore their rock & roll with an angry young sneer, announcing that big, brash Brit rock was here to stay. Check out why with their video for "Live Forever".
Year: 1994 Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment / Columbia
A perfect slice of sun-kissed CA dreampop, West Indian GirlÕs luminous sound filters the hazy shoegazer sounds of yesteryear through a distinctly west coast sensibility.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of VIS-ABILITY
It may be cute and cuddly to link Mudhoney with the grunge generation of the Pacific Northwest's early nineties, but the Seattle foursome continues to endure more then a decade after the genre was deemed defunct. Check out their new video for "It Is Us".
Year: 2006 Courtesy of Sub Pop
FloridaÕs brilliant singer-songwriter Sam Beam expands Iron & Wine from solo project to a gaggle of friends and family on slide guitar, percussion, and backing vocals with new flavors abound.
Year: 2004 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion
Recorded over four-nights in front of a sold-out hometown crowd at Chicago's historic Vic Theatre in 2005, here is Wilco rocking 'Kicking Television'.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Girlie Action
Jon Spencer and company are back, and with a sonic vengeance so pure and raw, it'll make you wanna' weep. For pure intensity and soul, Damage is now THE album in the Blues Explosion catalog, and essential listening at that.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion
The Locust has been throwing up in the face of conventional music since 1995. Their 2003 album is described as a ''car-wreck with vocal'' or ''Devo-meets-Napalm Death''.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Epitaph
Brian Jonestown Massacre is the musical brainchild of underground rock giant Anton Newcombe. "When Jokers Attack" is off of their latest album, And This Is Our MusicÉ. The song is a tribute to the legendary Dandy Warhols.
Year: 2003 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion
Gossip have returned two years after their last release with a new drummer and a slightly new sound. They have been described as everything from dance-punk to "Pointer Sisters without synths". Check out their track "Standing In The Way Of Control".
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Girlie Action
The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand", quite possibly the song that started Beatlemania, helped to define rock music as it is today. Check out this montage of their rise to stardom way back in the '60s.
Year: 2004 Courtesy of Capitol Records
Dapper young Swedes, Mando Diao, purvey hookily retro, Kinks-style Brtipop sung with reverence, sincerity and passion. Song: 'Down In The Past'.
Year: 2005 Courtesy of Mute Records
Part Spinal Tap, part Sabbath, part GWAR. Goblin Cock may have humorous lyrics at times, but they still generate some serious Metal! Here's 'Stumped'.
Year: 2005 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion
The Warlocks are an odd occult hybrid of the Walkman, the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth & the Shangri-La's. Brainy, esoteric & unapologetic music. 'Come Save Us'.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Mute Records
Part stop animation, part live action, the video for Rogue Wave's "Publish My Love" is a technically impressive and visually engaging accompaniment to Rogue Wave's big new sound. Check it out.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Sub Pop
Tripped out, posery, druggy, psychedelic pop in the vein of the Velvet Underground, the Dandy Warhols display their magic with 'All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey'.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of VIS-ABILITY
The relentless, driving drums and thunderous bass of Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" are the magic components that make it one of the best song Iggy Pop ever recorded without the Stooges.
Year: 1977 Courtesy of Virgin Records
Crawling out from the weed-choked lots of the once proud town, The Detroit Cobras whip out ass-shaking anthems to good times, wild times, and the high and lows of L-U-V-E. Check out their video for ÒCha Cha TwistÓ.
Year: 2006 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion
This is what it's all about, folks! True, pure rock n roll at it's finest - no one can do it better than The Makers. Video: 'Matter of Degrees'.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
The Method Snowboarding Show takes you into the Arctic Challenge! One of the world’s most progressive snowboarding events caught on film. All of the best riders going huge. See Haakonsen and Friends shred!
Year: 2006 Courtesy of Wink Inc.
Isis takes the heaviness of Neurosis and the soundscape stylings of Mogwai and blends them into a dark and brooding journey of sound. Check out the nine-minute epic, "In Fiction".
Year: 2004 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion
Keep Private on web because of rights. Off their 13th studio albumÉnot so much a comeback effort but rather a collection of templates affirming that no one does the Cure better than themselves.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of VIS-ABILITY
Mastodon attack with another soon to be classic. Witness the punishment only they can provide. Video: "Seabeast".
Year: 2004 Courtesy of Rive Video Promotion
Broken Social Scene's heavily orchestrated, guitar-driven sound has been likened by critics to an experimental take on the music of fellow Canadians Arcade Fire. Video: "Stars & Sons"
Year: 2002 Courtesy of Arts & Crafts
Sixteen Military Wives is a condemnation of both American arrogance and the shallowness of celebrity reaction to international intervention; fitted to a brassy indiepop arrangement and the full battery of the Decemberists' orchestration.
Year: 2000 Courtesy of HIP Video Promotion