This is a list of lists of rock music artists.
A
- List of acid rock artists
- List of alternative metal bands
- List of alternative rock artists
- List of American death metal bands
- List of American grunge bands
- List of anarcho-punk bands
- List of art rock bands
- List of avant-garde metal artists
B
- List of baroque pop artists
- List of beat bands
- List of beatdown hardcore bands
- List of biker metal bands
- List of black metal bands
- List of black metal bands, 0–K
- List of black metal bands, L–Z
- List of blackened death metal bands
- List of blackgaze artists
- List of blues rock musicians
- List of British Invasion artists
- List of Britpop musicians
C
- List of Celtic metal bands
- List of Christian death metal bands
- List of Christian hardcore bands
- List of Christian metal artists
- List of Christian punk bands
- List of Christian rock bands
- List of Christian ska bands
- List of country rock musicians
- List of crossover thrash bands
- List of crunkcore artists
- List of crust punk bands
D
- List of dance-punk artists
- List of dance-rock artists
- List of dark cabaret artists
- List of dark rock bands
- List of deathcore artists
- List of death-doom bands
- List of deathgrind bands
- List of death metal bands
- List of death metal bands, !–K
- List of death metal bands, L–Z
- List of deathrock bands
- List of doom metal bands
- List of dream pop artists
- List of djent bands
E
- List of electroclash bands and artists
- List of electronic rock artists
- List of electronicore bands
- List of emo artists
- List of emo pop bands
- List of emo rap artists
F
- List of first-wave black metal bands
- List of folk metal bands
- List of folk rock artists
- List of funk rock and funk metal bands
G
- List of garage rock bands
- List of geek rock artists
- List of glam metal bands and artists
- List of glam punk artists
- List of glam rock artists
- List of goregrind bands
- List of gothic metal bands
- List of gothic rock artists
- List of grindcore bands
- List of groove metal bands
- List of grunge bands
H
- List of hardcore punk bands
- Lists of hard rock artists
- List of hard rock bands (A–M)
- List of hard rock bands (N–Z)
- List of heavy metal bands
- List of horror punk bands
I
- List of indie pop artists
- List of indie rock musicians
- List of industrial metal bands
- List of industrial music bands
J
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L
M
- List of mainstream rock performers
- List of mathcore bands
- List of math rock groups
- List of melodic death metal bands
- List of melodic hardcore bands
- List of melodic metalcore bands
- List of metalcore bands
- List of Midwest emo bands
- List of musical supergroups
N
- List of National Socialist black metal bands
- List of neo-psychedelia artists
- List of new wave artists
- List of New York hardcore bands
- List of Nintendocore bands
- List of noise rock bands
- List of Neue Deutsche Härte bands
- List of new wave of American heavy metal bands
- List of new wave of British heavy metal bands
- List of New wave of traditional heavy metal bands
- List of musicians in the early Norwegian black metal scene
- List of nu metal bands
- List of nu metalcore bands
O
P
- List of pop-punk bands
- List of post-grunge bands
- List of post-hardcore bands
- List of post-punk bands
- List of post-punk revival bands
- List of post-rock bands
- List of power metal bands
- List of power pop artists and songs
- List of progressive metal artists
- List of progressive metalcore bands
- List of progressive rock artists
- List of progressive rock supergroups
- List of proto-punk bands
- List of psychedelic folk artists
- List of psychedelic pop artists
- List of psychedelic rock artists
- List of psychobilly bands
- List of punk blues musicians and bands
- List of punk rap artists
- List of punk rock bands, 0–K
- List of punk rock bands, L–Z
- List of 1970s punk rock musicians
- List of musicians in the second wave of punk rock
R
- List of rap metal bands
- List of rap rock bands
- List of reggae rock artists
- List of riot grrrl bands
- List of rockabilly musicians
- List of rock and roll artists
- List of roots rock bands and musicians
S
- List of screamo bands
- List of shock rock musicians
- List of shoegaze bands
- List of skate punk bands
- List of sludge metal bands
- List of soft rock artists and songs
- List of southern rock bands
- List of speed metal bands
- List of stoner rock and metal bands
- List of straight edge bands
- List of street punk bands
- List of sunshine pop artists
- List of surf musicians
- List of symphonic metal bands
- List of symphonic black metal bands
- List of synth-pop artists
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Blues
- List of blues musicians
- List of boogie woogie musicians
- List of British blues musicians
- List of Chicago blues musicians
- List of classic female blues singers
- List of country blues musicians
- List of Delta blues musicians
- List of electric blues musicians
- List of gospel blues musicians
- List of jump blues musicians
- List of Piedmont blues musicians
- List of soul-blues musicians
- List of Texas blues musicians
- List of West Coast blues musicians
Country/Folk
- List of alternative country musicians
- List of bluegrass bands
- List of bluegrass musicians
- List of Celtic musicians
- List of country music performers
- List of country performers by era
- List of folk musicians
- List of gothic country artists
- List of outlaw country artists
- List of progressive country artists
Dance/Electronic
- List of ambient music artists
- List of disco artists
- List of disco artists (A–E)
- List of disco artists (F–K)
- List of disco artists (L–R)
- List of disco artists (S–Z)
- List of downtempo artists
- List of dubstep musicians
- List of Eurobeat artists
- List of Eurodance artists
- List of Eurodisco artists
- List of hi-NRG artists and songs
- List of house music artists
- List of intelligent dance music artists
- List of Italo disco artists and songs
- List of jungle and drum and bass artists
- List of Latin freestyle musicians and songs
- List of new-age music artists
- List of post-disco artists
- List of post-dubstep musicians
- List of progressive house artists
- List of Soukous musicians
- List of trip hop artists
- List of UK garage artists
- List of UK noise musicians
- List of video game musicians
- List of vocal trance artists
Experimental
Hip Hop/R&B
- List of alternative hip-hop artists
- List of alternative R&B artists
- List of Arab rappers
- List of blue-eyed soul artists
- List of brown eyed soul musicians
- List of Chicano rappers
- List of Christian hip-hop artists
- List of doo-wop musicians
- List of funk musicians
- List of G-funk artists and producers
- List of gangsta rap artists
- List of hip-hop groups
- List of hip-hop musicians
- List of Japanese hip-hop musicians
- List of Latin trap musicians
- List of new jack swing artists
- List of Pakistani hip-hop musicians
- List of political hip-hop artists
- List of R&B musicians
- List of Salvadoran hip-hop musicians
- List of soul musicians
- List of West Coast hip-hop artists
Jazz
- List of bebop musicians
- List of big band musicians
- List of chamber jazz musicians
- List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians
- List of descarga musicians
- List of experimental big bands
- List of Finnish jazz musicians
- List of free funk musicians
- List of free improvising musicians and groups
- List of hard bop musicians
- List of jazz musicians
- List of neo-bop musicians
- List of Norwegian jazz musicians
- List of ragtime musicians
- List of Romanian jazz musicians
- List of scat singers
- List of smooth jazz musicians
- List of soul jazz musicians
- List of swing musicians
Pop
- List of 1950s musical artists
- List of 1960s musical artists
- List of adult alternative artists
- List of Arabic pop musicians
- List of art pop musicians
- List of avant-pop artists
- List of Brill Building artists
- List of C-pop artists
- List of 1970s Christian pop artists
- List of city pop artists
- List of crooners
- List of dance-pop artists
- List of Europop artists
- List of Indonesian pop musicians
- List of instrumental bands
- List of J-pop artists
- List of K-pop artists
- List of Latin pop artists
- List of operatic pop artists
- List of Pakistani pop singers
- List of pop kreatif artists
- List of sophisti-pop artists
- List of Swedish indie pop artists
- List of Thai pop artists
- List of Urbano artists
- List of vocal groups
- List of yé-yé singers