http://www.rhapsody.com/charts?cat=artist&category=genre&genreId=314&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rssTop Punk Artists on Rhapsody OnlinePunken720Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:37:12 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/charts?cat=artist&category=genre&genreId=314&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11088911&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:17:05 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.11088911 art.11088911 Cobra Starship art.11088911 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11088911&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11088911&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets, appeared in 2006, with statement of purpose Viva La Cobra! following a year later. Slots on various touring festivals came next, with "Guilty Pleasure" and "Kiss My Sass" receiving airplay. In 2009, Cobra Starship's third album came out, Hot Mess, which featured lead single "Good Girls Go Bad." - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6167&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:41 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6167 art.6167 Green Day art.6167 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6167&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6167&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Dookie. Although Green Day's taut, three-minute, guitar-driven songs ably revive the fierceness of the group's stylistic progenitors (the Who, the Clash and the Sex Pistols), punk's original aim — to annoy, outrage, shock — is not Green Day's thing.

Friends since age 10, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt grew up in Rodeo, California. They formed their first real band, Sweet Children, at 14. When they were 17, the pair first recorded as Green Day, signing with the punk label Lookout and releasing the 1989 EP 1,000 Hours with drummer John Kiffmeyer. The next year, the group recorded its first full-length album, 39/Smooth, in a day. Two more EPs followed, with Kiffmeyer leaving to focus on his studies and Tre Cool, with whom Armstrong had played in a band

called the Lookouts, taking over on drums for 1992's Kerplunk. With a solid fanbase built on the nurturing, all-ages hardcore scene in Berkeley, the group signed with Reprise in April 1993. Its 1994 release, Dookie, proclaimed the next generation of punk, hitting Number Four on the album chart, buoyed by the band's effervescent presence on MTV and at Lollapalooza and Woodstock '94. The album won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance and sold 10 million copies worldwide.

The 1995 follow-up Insomniac sold nearly 3 million copies and charted at Number Two, but failed to repeat the success of the band's major-label debut. Nimrod (Number 10, 1997) sold a million copies but won fresh exposure for the group, largely on the strength of the ballad "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." In 2000, Green Day released Warning (Number Four), a more introspective, even folk-influenced record that showed the group stretching artistically. Despite producing the radio hit "Minority," the album was a commercial letdown, selling fewer than a million copies. Two compilations followed: A best-of, International Superhits! (Number 40, 2001), and the B-sides round-up Shenanigans (Number 27, 2002).

By the early '00s, there was a growing consensus that Green Day's cachet was in decline, as evidenced by the band's slowing album sales. That belief that was put to rest with the release of American Idiot (Number One, 2004), a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning rock opera with political overtones that restated Green Day as one of the biggest musical acts in the world. Produced by Rob Cavallo, Idiot is grandiose — two of the songs are multi-part suites that clock in at nearly 10 minutes — but never show-offy. Five singles were released, all of them hits: The title track (Number 61, 2004), "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (Number Six, 2005), "Holiday" (Number 19, 2005), "Jesus of Suburbia" (Number 27 Modern Rock, 2005) and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (2004), the latter a ballad that came one slot away from being Green Day's first Number One single.

Following extensive touring, Green Day recorded a cover of the Skids' "The Saints Are Coming" (Number 51, 2006) with U2, which was released to raise awareness for musicians whose lives had been disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, the band appeared on both American Idol — where they performed a version of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" (Number 53) — and in The Simpsons Movie. That year the band also began a side project — that they at first kept secret — called Foxboro Hot Tubs, a group that also features Jason White, Josh Freese and Kevin Preston. In May 2008, the band issued its first LP, a garage album called Stop Drop and Roll!!!, and went on a brief tour. Armstrong also revived his other side project, Pinhead Gun Powder, who played their first show since 2001 in February 2008. ]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7501250&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:14:04 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.7501250 art.7501250 Paramore art.7501250 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7501250&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7501250&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Riot! (Number 15, 2007) produced hits in the lurching "Crushcrushcrush" (Number Four Modern Rock; Number 54 Pop, 2007) and nimble "Misery Business" (Number Three Modern Rock; Number 26 Pop, 2007).

Paramore formed in Franklin, Tennessee, after guitarist Josh Farro and his brother Zac met Mississippi transplant Hayley Williams at the private school they all attended and broadened their new friend's musical horizons. Adding bassist Jeremy Davis and rhythm guitarist Jason Bynum, the band played its first gigs in early 2004. Within six months they were signed to Florida-based indie label Fueled by Ramen, home of Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy.

Paramore's 2005 debut All We Know Is Falling reached Number 30 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and created a buzz and critical kudos for Williams' strong vocals and songwriting. In late 2005, Bynum was replaced by guitarist Hunter Lamb, who left the group in early 2007 (they carried on as a four-piece). The band's highly anticipated 2007 follow-up Riot! received generally favorable reviews and shot to the Top 20 on the strength of its two biggest singles and videos. The band was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Though the group is Christian, they don't consider themselves to be a Christian-rock band and tend to keep their faith out of their songwriting and interviews.

As the band began to attract more and more media attention, speculation arose that they were suffering from a problem that plagued No Doubt in their early days, and Paramore began expressing displeasure with Williams being the focus of magazine articles. In early 2008, the band, which had experienced personnel shakeups from early on, pulled out of a U.K. and European tour supporting Riot! due to what it termed "internal issues." They went on to co-headline a set of arena dates with Jimmy Eat World and assured fans they were not breaking up in a series of interviews and candid blog posts. In summer 2008, the band embarked upon their fourth Warped Tour as well as a headlining trek of amphitheaters. ]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2643&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss New Wave Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:44:53 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2643 art.2643 David Bowie art.2643 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2643&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2643&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Let's Dance (Number One, 1983), his entrée into the mainstream, was followed by attempts to keep up with current trends. In the '90s, this meant embracing grunge, industrial rock, rap and dance music. While these experiments were greeted with varying degrees of artistic and commercial success, Bowie remains one of the more restless and venturesome classic rock survivors.

Bowie — born David Jones on January 8th, 1947 in London — took up the saxophone at age 13, and when he left Bromley Technical High School (where a friend permanently paralyzed Jones' left pupil in a fight) to work as a commercial artist three years later, he had started playing in bands (the Konrads, the King Bees, David Jones and the Buzz). Three of Jones' early bands — the King Bees, the Manish Boys (featuring session guitarist Jimmy Page) and Davey Jones and the Lower Third — each recorded a single. In 1966, after changing his name to David Bowie (after the knife) to avoid confusion with the Monkees' Davy Jones, he recorded three singles for Pye Records, then signed in 1967 with Deram, issuing several singles and The World of David Bowie (most of the songs from that album, and others from that time, were also collected on Images 1966-67).



On these early records, Bowie appears in the singer-songwriter mold; rock star seemed to be just another role for him. In 1967 he spent a few weeks at a Buddhist monastery in Scotland, then apprenticed in Lindsay Kemp's mime troupe. He started his own troupe, Feathers, in 1968. American-born Angela Barnett met Bowie in London's Speakeasy and married him on March 20th, 1970. Son Zowie (now Joey) was born in June 1971; the couple divorced acrimoniously in 1980. After Feathers broke up, Bowie helped start the experimental Beckenham Arts Lab in 1969. To finance the project, he signed with Mercury. Man of Words, Man of Music included "Space Oddity," which it would later be re-titled after; the single's release was timed for the U.S. moon landing. It became a European hit that year but did not make the U.S. charts until its rerelease in 1973, when it reached Number 15.



Marc Bolan, an old friend, was beginning his rise as a glitter-rocker in T. Rex and introduced Bowie to his producer, Tony Visconti. Bowie mimed at some T. Rex concerts, and Bolan played guitar on Bowie's "Karma Man" and "The Prettiest Star." Bowie, Visconti, guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer John Cambridge toured briefly as Hype. Ronson eventually recruited drummer Michael "Woody" Woodmansey, and with Visconti on bass they recorded The Man Who Sold the World, which included "All the Madmen," inspired by Bowie's institutionalized brother, Terry. Hunky Dory (Number 93, 1972), Bowie's tribute to the New York City of Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan, included his ostensible theme song, "Changes" (Number 66, 1972, rereleased 1974, Number 41).



Bowie started changing his image in late 1971. He told Melody Maker he was gay in January 1972 and started work on a new theatrical production. Enter Ziggy Stardust, Bowie's projection of a doomed messianic rock star. Bowie became Ziggy; Ronson, Woodmansey and bassist Trevor Bolder became Ziggy's band, the Spiders From Mars. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (Number 75, 1972) and the rerelease of Man of Words as Space Oddity (Number 16, 1972) made Bowie the star he was portraying. The live show, with Bowie wearing futuristic costumes, makeup and bright orange hair (at a time when the rock-star uniform was jeans), was a sensation in London and New York. It took Aladdin Sane (Number 17, 1973) to break Bowie in the U.S. Bolan and other British glitter-rock performers barely made the Atlantic crossing, but Bowie emerged a star. He produced albums for Lou Reed (Transformer and its hit "Walk on the Wild Side") and Iggy and the Stooges (Raw Power) and wrote and produced Mott the Hoople's glitter anthem "All the Young Dudes."



In 1973 Bowie announced his retirement from live performing, disbanded the Spiders and sailed to Paris to record Pin Ups (Number 23, 1973), a collection of covers of mid-'60s British rock. That same year, the 1980 Floor Show, an invitation-only concert with Bowie and guests Marianne Faithfull and the Troggs, was taped for broadcast on the TV program The Midnight Special. Meanwhile, Bowie worked on a musical adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 but was denied the rights by Orwell's widow. He rewrote the material as Diamond Dogs (Number Five, 1974) and returned to the stage with an extravagant American tour. Midway though the tour, Bowie entered Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios (then the capital of black music) and recorded the tracks that would become Young Americans (Number Nine, 1975). The session had a major effect on Bowie, as his sound and show were revised. Bowie scrapped the dancers, sets and costumes for a spare stage and baggy Oxford trousers; he cut his hair and colored it a more natural blond. His new band, led by former James Brown sideman Carlos Alomar, added soul standards (like Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood") to his repertoire. David Live (Number Eight, 1974), also recorded in Philadelphia, chronicles this incarnation.



"Fame," cowritten by Bowie, Almoar and John Lennon, was Bowie's first American Number One single (1975). Bowie moved to L.A. and became a fixture of American pop culture. He played the title role in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1976; the same year, he released Station to Station (Number Three, 1976), another album of "plastic soul" recorded with the Young Americans band, portrayed Bowie as the Thin White Duke (also the title of his unpublished autobiography). His highest charting album, Station to Station contained his second Top 10 single, "Golden Years" (Number 10, 1975). Bowie complained life had become predictable and left L.A. He returned to the U.K. for the first time in three years before settling in Berlin, where he lived in semiseclusion, painting, studying art and recording with Brian Eno.

Bowie's work with Eno — Low (Number 11, 1977), "Heroes" (Number 35, 1977) and Lodger (Number 20, 1979) — was distinguished by its appropriation of avant-garde electronic music and the "cut-up" technique made famous by author William Burroughs. (Composer Philip Glass wrote a symphony incorporating music from Low in 1993.

) Bowie revitalized Iggy Pop's career by producing The Idiot and Lust for Life (both 1977) and toured Europe and America unannounced as Pop's pianist. He narrated Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra's recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and spent the rest of 1977 acting with Marlene Dietrich and Kim Novak in Just a Gigolo. The next year, he embarked on a massive world tour. A second live album, Stage (Number 44, 1978), was recorded on the U.S. leg of the tour. Work on Lodger was begun in New York, continued in Switzerland and completed in Berlin.

Bowie settled in New York to record the paranoiac Scary Monsters (Number 12, 1980), updating "Space Oddity" in "Ashes to Ashes." One of the first stars to understand the potential of video, he produced some innovative clips for songs from Lodger and Scary Monsters. After Scary Monsters, Bowie turned his attention away from his recording career. In 1980 he played the title role in The Elephant Man, appearing in Denver, in Chicago and on Broadway. He collaborated with Queen on 1981's "Under Pressure" and provided lyrics and vocals for "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (Number 67, 1982), Giorgio Moroder's title tune for the soundtrack of Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People. His music was used on the soundtrack of Christiane F (1982) (he also appeared in the film). Also that year, Bowie starred in the BBC-TV production of Brecht's Baal, and as a 150-year-old vampire in the movie The Hunger.

In 1983 Bowie signed one of the most lucrative contracts in history and moved from RCA to EMI. Let's Dance (Number Four, 1983), his first album in three years, returned him to the top of the charts. Produced by Nile Rodgers with Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar, the album was a slick revision of Bowie's soul-man posture. It contained three Top 20 singles — "Let's Dance" (Number One, 1983), "China Girl" (Number 10, 1983) and "Modern Love" (Number 14, 1983) — which were supported with another set of innovative videos; the sold-out Serious Moonlight Tour followed. Bowie's career seemed to be revitalized.

But what first seemed like a return to form actually ushered in a period of mediocrity. Without Nile Rodgers' production savvy, Bowie's material sounded increasingly forced and hollow; his attention alternated between albums and film roles. Tonight (Number 11, 1984) had only one hit, "Blue Jean" (Number Eight, 1984). Bowie and Mick Jagger dueted on a lame cover of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" (Number Seven, 1985) for Live Aid. Although Never Let Me Down (Number 34, 1987), with Peter Frampton on guitar, was roundly criticized, it made the charts with "Day In, Day Out" (Number 21, 1987) and the title song (Number 27, 1987). Bowie hit the road with another stadium extravaganza, the Glass Spiders Tour; it was recorded for an ABC-TV special. Bowie had scarcely better luck in his acting career: Into the Night (1985), Absolute Beginners (1986) — a Julien Temple musical featuring some Bowie songs — Labyrinth (1986), The Linguini Incident (1992) and Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me (1992) were neither critical nor commercial successes.



Bowie set about reissuing his earlier albums on CD. Sound + Vision (Number 97, 1989), a box-set overview (ChangesBowie, from 1990, condensed his hits into a single disc), revived interest in Bowie's career; the set list for the accompanying tour was partially based on fan response to special phone lines requesting favorite Bowie songs. Bowie claimed it would be the last time he performed those songs live. Later reissues, with previously unreleased bonus tracks, brought the Ziggy-era Bowie back into popularity.

Bowie formed Tin Machine in 1989. The band included Bowie discovery Reeves Gabrels on guitar and Hunt and Tony Sales, who had worked with Bowie on Iggy Pop's Lust for Life album and tour in the '70s. Although Bowie claimed that the band was a democracy, Tin Machine was perceived as Bowie's next project. The group debuted with a series of club dates in New York and L.A. Tin Machine's eponymous album (Number 28, 1989) was a rougher, more guitar-oriented collection than any of Bowie's previous albums. Tin Machine II (Number 126, 1991), lacked the novelty of the debut and was quickly forgotten.



In 1992 Bowie married Somalian supermodel Iman. Black Tie White Noise (Number 39, 1993), which Bowie called his wedding present to his wife, received decent reviews but failed to excite the public. For a follow-up, Bowie reunited with Brian Eno to create Outside - The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle, a concept album of sorts that did not create much in the way of sales, although Bowie did tour the States with Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails opening. The Buddha in Suburbia is the music from the British television show of the same name; Lenny Kravitz appears on guitar. 

Bowie celebrated his 50th birthday in January 1997 with a sold-out gig at Madison Square Garden, where he was joined onstage by Lou Reed, the Cure's Robert Smith, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Frank Black, the Foo Fighters and Sonic Youth.



In early 1997 Bowie was again on the cutting edge — this time in the financial world. In a complicated transaction that was definitely a first, something called Bowie Bonds were offered for sale. These asset-backed bonds (in this case the assets are the royalties on Bowie's songs recorded prior to 1990) allowed Bowie to collect $55 million. The sale of the bonds came on the eve of the release of Earthling, which incorporated drum-and-bass into a basically rock sound. By the end of the year a Reznor remix of the last song on the CD, "I'm Afraid of Americans," was receiving video and radio airplay. Into the edgy song (cowritten with Eno) Reznor inserted some keyboard and guitar textures and a rap by Ice Cube. Hours . . . (1999) was not a particularly well-received album but was notable for expanding Bowie's early and enthusiastic advocacy of the Internet. The entire album was available for download weeks before its official release and contained a song available only online. That year Bowie also appeared in, and contributed a soundtrack to, the videogame "Omikron: The Nomad Soul."

In 2002, Bowie reunited with Tony Visconti to record Heathen, featuring a cover of the Pixies' "Cactus." He also put together an annual edition of London's Meltdown Festival, at which Bowie performed 1977's Low in its entirety. A year later, he released Reality, and while touring behind it he had a minor heart attack onstage in Germany, brought on by heavy smoking; Bowie fully recuperated. His songs appeared on the soundtrack for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in 2004, both in his original versions and in new renditions by Seu Jorge, who translated the lyrics to Portuguese. Bowie also curried favor with the new generation of indie rockers by appearing onstage with the Arcade Fire and singing on TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain. ]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44058&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:44 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.44058 art.44058 blink-182 art.44058 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44058&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44058&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9637431&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:46 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.9637431 art.9637431 All Time Low art.9637431 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9637431&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9637431&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss The Party Scene and So Wrong It's Right, on indie labels in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Extensive touring and coverage on MTV helped raise their profile, and in 2009 their first single off third album Nothing Personal, "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)," became All Time Low's first Hot 100 charting song. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61779&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Ska Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:45 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61779 art.61779 Sublime art.61779 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61779&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61779&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3708&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Hardcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:45 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.3708 art.3708 Rise Against art.3708 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3708&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3708&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Lords of Dogtown and became one of the shining stars on Fat Wreck Chords' artist roster. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6513639&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:15 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6513639 art.6513639 Fall Out Boy art.6513639 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6513639&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6513639&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Folie a Deux. - Rachel Devitt]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5156&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Skate Punk Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:05:38 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5156 art.5156 The Offspring art.5156 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5156&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5156&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Smash LP, and the accompanying single "Come Out and Play," the group became the biggest-selling indie artist of all time. Since then, the group have had consistent success with alternative radio, most recently with the single "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)." Since that single hit the charts in 1998, the Offspring have steadily released albums, with Conspiracy of One and Splinter appearing in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace following in 2008. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.56565&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Indie/Alternative Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:46 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.56565 art.56565 Yeah Yeah Yeahs art.56565 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.56565&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.56565&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Flashdance-style of dress, not to mention her vocals, which could moan and shriek with passion and suffering. The band itself ran from dance-oriented 4/4 beats toward choppy post-punk; songs are clunky, spastic and melodic. Their debut album, Fever Too Tell, came out in 2003 and features the hit "Maps." They followed up that success with 2006's Show Your Bones. For their third release, 2009's It's Blitz, the trio took a slightly different approach, washing their gritty guitar rock in a wave of synths and dance beats. - Jon Pruett]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.836&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss 3rd Wave Ska Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:05:40 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.836 art.836 No Doubt art.836 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.836&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.836&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6086653&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:14:07 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6086653 art.6086653 My Chemical Romance art.6086653 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6086653&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6086653&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss
The idea of rock superheroes is key to the band's success: Singer Gerard Arthur Way graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1999 and was working as a comic-book animator when the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 made him to rethink his priorities. Deciding comic books were getting him nowhere, Way quit his day job and along with high school friend and drummer Matt Pelissier formed My Chemical Romance. The band was named after the Irvine Welsh book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance and its early- lineup was fleshed out by Way's younger brother "Mikey" on bass, Ray Toro on lead guitar, and Frank Iero on rhythm guitar.

Within three-months of forming My Chemical Romance had recorded and released their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love on New Jersey indie label Eyeball Records (who had also signed fellow Garden State emo rockers Thursday). On the strength of tracks like the pummeling 9-11 lament "Skylines and Turnstiles," the band quickly signed to Reprise Records. 2003's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Number 28, 2005) produced a string of singles including "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" (Number Four Modern Rock, 2005), "Helena" (Number 11 Modern Rock, Number 31 Pop, 2005) and "The Ghost of You" (Number 9 Modern Rock, 2005) and sold over a million copies. MCR was one of the first bands to successfully pioneer the social networking website MySpace to market their music.

In 2004 Bob Bryar, a sound tech for the Used, replaced Matt Pelissie (who later opened Strong Arm Studios, in Harrison, NJ.)on drums. MCR spent much of 2005 on the road opening for Green Day and co-headlining the Warped Tour with Fall Out Boy. In 2006, as MCR was heading back into the studio to record its third album, the group released the CD/DVD Life on the Murder Scene, a documentary that included videos and live footage and sold 2 million copies.

In 2006 MCR released its most ambitious album to date: a bombastic concept album entitled The Black Parade, which sold 240,000 copies in its first week and propelled it to Number Two on the Top 200 Chart . The album's storyline revolves around the regretful reminiscences of a dying cancer patient (and includes a cameo from Liza Minnelli on "Mama"). The Black Parade polarized critics who either loved the album's grandiosity or hated its excesses though it too went platinum. Its singles included the Top Forty hits "Welcome to the Black Parade" (Number One Modern Rock, Number Nine pop, 2006) and "Teenagers" (Number 13 Modern Rock, Number 39 Pop 100, 2007).

In the spring of 2008 the band was enmeshed in a controversy after a British MCR fan committed suicide and U.K. tabloids labeled emo and the band a "suicide cult." The band released the following statement on its website: "My Chemical Romance are and always have been vocally anti-violence and anti-suicide. As a band we have always made it one of our missions through our actions to provide comfort, support, and solace to our fans...If you or anyone you know have feelings of depression or suicide, we urge you to find your way and your voice to deal with these feelings positively."

In July of 2008 the band released its second live CD/DVD compilation entitled The Black Parade is Dead! featuring outtakes from the band's fall 2007 Mexico City and New Jersey concerts. ]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7637076&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:50 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.7637076 art.7637076 Panic at the Disco art.7637076 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7637076&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7637076&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. How did the music industry track down these innovative suburban high school talents? After hearing that Pete Wentz, bass player for the emo success story Fall Out Boy, was starting a new label, guitarist Ryan sent him a link to their website. Amazingly, after a few sampled tracks, this e-mailed URL led to being signed to Wentz's Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen records in 2005. Panic! At the Disco stand out amidst their labelmates by incorporating rapid-fire synths and drum machines into their high-energy melodies, along with not-so-rock 'n' roll instruments like a Vaudevillian piano and accordion. - Michele K-Tel]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.43716&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Old School Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:41 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.43716 art.43716 The Clash art.43716 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.43716&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.43716&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15658&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Metalcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:46 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.15658 art.15658 Killswitch Engage art.15658 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15658&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15658&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39096&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:44 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.39096 art.39096 Taking Back Sunday art.39096 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39096&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39096&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Tell All Your Friends, in 2002. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.38620&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:17:10 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.38620 art.38620 Plain White T's art.38620 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.38620&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.38620&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Come On Over caught the ears of the Fearless label, which issued their 2002 LP Stop. The band toured hard before 2005's All That We Needed, and eventually settled with a roster of Higgenson, guitarists Dave Tirio and Tim Lopez, bassist Mike Retondo and drummer De'Mar Hamilton. It was the "Hey There Delilah" single that became the band's huge hit, and they wisely issued it on an expanded EP before offering Every Second Counts, their major-label debut. - Nate Cavalieri]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55993&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Noise Pop Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:44 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.55993 art.55993 Pixies art.55993 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55993&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55993&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Surfer Rosa, the Pixies' 1988 full-length debut of skronked-out, surf-damaged punk-pop, was a revelation to just about everyone who heard it. At first listen the remedial chord progressions, utterly nonsensical lyrics, and bizarre delivery sounded like the flailings of inept college rockers with a psychotropic casualty for a lead singer, but once the hooks were in, there was no escape. The Bostonians reminded everyone how to write a perfect, repetitive song that you knew by heart two seconds in. With wonder-twin powers Black Francis and Kim Deal writing paeans to sexually charged dementia, an idiosyncratic guitar sound, and what sounded like the Jolly Green Giant playing drums, the Pixies took the alt-rock world by storm, releasing four near-perfect records before self-destructing under the weight of their own talent, in 1993, after opening U2's Zoo TV tour. In their wake, Deal went full-time with her side-project the Breeders and began working on Last Splash, which would eventually go gold in the U.S., and Black -- as Frank Black -- starting penning a solo eponymous debut, which didn't fair so well. In 2004 -- with disparate and storied careers -- Deal, Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering reunited for a North American tour and several dates at European summer festivals. The group is currently rumored to be working on a new studio album, the first since 1991. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9523&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:04 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.9523 art.9523 slightly stoopid art.9523 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9523&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.9523&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Everything You Need , which showcased their newly vamped live-dub sound. With 2005's Closer to the Sun , the band finally found a home on the Billboard charts. Famous for their crowd rousing jam sessions, Slightly Stoopid continue to tour with a variety of artists, including G. Love & Special Sauce, N.E.R.D, the Roots, Toots and the Maytals and more, playing nearly 200 gigs a year. 2007 kicked off their Summer Haze tour with G.Love and Ozomatli. - Sabrina Sutherland]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8930686&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:42 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.8930686 art.8930686 Bullet For My Valentine art.8930686 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8930686&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8930686&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss The Poison. Back in 1998, the quartet of lads from Bridgend College was churning out Metallica covers under the name Jeff Killed John. It wasn't until 2003 that the band changed its name and beefed up their sound with a solidified lineup of guitarist and singer Matthew Tuck, guitarist Michael Paget, bassist Nick Crandle and drummer Michael Thomas. After issuing an EP and their debut on the British label Trustkill, they picked up Kerrang! magazine's Best British Newcomer Award in 2005 and eventually signed a deal with Sony/BMG. The band enjoyed quick success with American audiences and a number of high-profile tour slots, including one supporting Rob Zombie, from which they were booted when Tuck called Zombie and his cohorts "money-grabbing f*cks" on the band's message board. - Nate Cavalieri]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4056&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk Pioneers Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:38 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4056 art.4056 Blondie art.4056 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4056&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4056&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, and Autoamerican). In bleached-blond lead singer Deborah Harry, new wave's answer to Marilyn Monroe, the group had an international icon. The group's repertoire, written by Harry and boyfriend Chris Stein, inhabited the melodic side of punk and grew increasingly eclectic while Harry's deadpan delivery remained consistent.

Born in Miami, Harry was adopted at age three months by Richard and Catherine Harry. She grew up in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and after graduating from high school moved to Manhattan. Harry joined a folk-rock band, the Wind in the Willows, which released one album for Capitol in 1968; she worked as a beautician, a Playboy bunny, and a barmaid at Max's Kansas City. In the mid-1970s she became the third lead singer of a glitter-rock band, the Stilettoes, which also included future Television bassist Fred Smith. Stein, a graduate of New York's School of Visual Arts, joined the band in October 1973, and he and Harry reshaped it, first as Angel and the Snakes, then as Blondie.

By 1975 the band was appearing regularly at CBGB, home of the burgeoning punk underground. Its first single, "X Offender," was independently produced by Richard Gottehrer and Marty Thau, who sold it to Private Stock. The label released Blondie's debut, also produced by Gottehrer, in December 1976. The group expanded its cult following to the West Coast with shows at L.A.'s Whisky-a-Go-Go in February 1977 and opened for Iggy Pop on a national tour. A few months later, they made their British concert debut. In July Gary Valentine (who wrote "[I'm Always Touched by Your] Presence Dear," a 1978 U.K. Top 10 hit) left the band to form his own trio, Gary Valentine and the Know, which broke up in spring 1980. In early 1978 Blondie's "Denis" hit Number Two in the U.K.

After one album for Private Stock and some legal wrangling, Blondie signed with Chrysalis in October 1977. Mike Chapman, a veteran of glitter pop, produced Parallel Lines, which slowly made its way into the Top Ten, breaking first in markets outside the U.S. The disco-style "Heart of Glass" hit Number One in April 1979 and established the group with a platinum album. Blondie maintained its popularity and dabbled in black-originated styles, collaborating with Eurodisco producer Giorgio Moroder for the American Gigolo Soundtrack ("Call Me," Number One, 1980), covering the reggae tune "The Tide Is High" (Number One, 1980), and writing a rap song, "Rapture" (Number One, 1981), on Autoamerican (Number Seven, 1980). Harry also did the rounds as a celebrity, including an endorsement of Gloria Vanderbilt designer jeans in 1980.

As the group's success continued, there were reports that Stein and Harry were asserting more control; by 1981 some Blondie backing tracks were played by session musicians under Stein's direction. Burke produced the New York band Colors, and Destri released a solo album, Heart on a Wall, in 1982. In 1981 Harry released her solo KooKoo (Number 25). Produced under the direction of Chic's Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, KooKoo went gold.

Harry also began acting, appearing off-Broadway in Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap (1983), in the films Union City (1979), Videodrome (1982), and John Waters' Hairspray (1988), in the television series Wiseguy, and in Showtime's Body Bags.

Early in 1982 Infante brought suit against the group, claiming they were out to destroy his career by excluding him from group meetings, rehearsals, and recording sessions. The suit was settled out of court and Infante remained in the band. However, by late 1982, following a disastrous tour (Blondie was never known as a great live act), the group quietly disbanded.

Harry and Stein's planned vacation from the music business stretched to a couple of years after he was felled by a rare genetic illness called pemphigus. By 1987, their romantic relationship had ended. Harry's comeback momentum was again stalled in the mid-1980s by legal problems with the group's label, Chrysalis. Rockbird (Number 97, 1986) drew critical raves, but neither it nor her subsequent releases have approached Blondie's in sales or acclaim, although she has had major hits in the U.K. ("French Kissin' in the U.S.A.," Number Eight, 1986, and "I Want That Man," Number 13, 1989). She sang a duet with Iggy Pop, "Well, Did You Evah!," on the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue. Harry collaborated with New York underground group the Jazz Passengers and appeared on their 1996 album Individually Twisted (32 Records).

Harrison and Burke joined a group called Checquered Past, which included ex–Sex Pistol Steve Jones. Later Harrison supervised the music for several feature films, including Repo Man, before becoming an A&R man for Capitol and Interscope. In the early 1990s Burke became one of the Romantics and worked as a session musician with the Plimsouls, Dramarama, and Mark Owen. Stein continued producing acts for his Animal Records label, and Destri began producing.

In 1998 Blondie had something of a resurgence as Harry, Burke, Stein, and Destri reunited for No Exit (Number 18, 1999), Blondie's seventh studio album. No Exit, which contains an appearance by rapper Coolio on the title cut and yielded the poppy "Maria" (Number 82) engendering a new generation of Blondie fans. In early 1999 the band launched a U.S. tour — its first in over 15 years — and recorded a live album. Meanwhile, ex-members Infante and Harrison filed a lawsuit in the summer of 1998 over the use of the Blondie name and royalties. In a separate legal case, Blondie sued former-label EMI for breach of contract, claiming EMI refused to pay the group proper royalties for albums recorded from 1977 to 1982 — a payment plan was agreed upon in 1996.

The group's catalog was reissued in 2001; each disc was expanded with demos, live tracks and covers. In 2003, the group released The Curse of Blondie (Number 160), its eighth studio album, and continued to tour, but relations between past and present Blondie remain tense: When Infante and Harrison appeared at the band's 2006 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Harry dismissed them onstage, saying "Can't you see my real band is up there?"

Harry remains the most active member of Blondie, releasing another solo album, Necessary Evil, and appearing in a number of independent films. She also traveled with the True Colors tour in 2007. ]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4769&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Oi/Street Punk Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:53:47 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4769 art.4769 Dropkick Murphys art.4769 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4769&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4769&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10357944&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Metalcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:39 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.10357944 art.10357944 Escape The Fate art.10357944 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10357944&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10357944&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss No Sympathy For the Dead) and a debut LP (Dying is Your Latest Fashion) in 2006 and agreeing to a tour with Bullet For My Valentine, singer Ronnie Radke was charged as an accomplice in a murder trial, an event that sunk the tour opportunity and effectively ended Radke's time in the band. In 2008, Escape the Fate released This War Is Ours with new frontman Craig Mabbitt. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15063&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Metalcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:43 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.15063 art.15063 All That Remains art.15063 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15063&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15063&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss This Darkened Heart proved the band's breakout album, with production by Killswitch Engage's Adam Dutkiewicz putting just the right degree of polish on their fusion of Swedish black metal stylings and American emo yearning. In 2006 All That Remains followed up with The Fall of Ideals and hit the road with Ozzfest before strutting their stuff on 2007's incendiary All That Remains Live. For all the hardcore swagger on display onstage, 2008's Overcome encountered a backlash from fans none too enamored by the band's radio-ready choruses. - Philip Sherburne]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39381&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:42 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.39381 art.39381 The Used art.39381 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39381&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39381&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.35104&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:53 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.35104 art.35104 Sum 41 art.35104 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.35104&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.35104&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Half Hour of Power, was released in the summer of 2000. Their 2001 follow-up, All Killer No Filler, produced by Green Day and blink mix-master Jerry Finn, yielded two of the band's biggest hits -- "In Too Deep" and "Fat Lip" -- and went to the top of the charts. A year later, Does This Look Infected? brought a harder edge and a hip-hop influence, and featured the hit "Thanks for Nothing." In 2004, with Chuck, Sum 41 took on a more serious demeanor after a traumatic experience in war-torn Congo, where they had to be rescued by U.N. peacekeepers. "We're All to Blame" was an indictment of the West for its apathy toward Congo's genocide. After a hiatus -- and the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh -- the band returned in 2007 with Underclass Hero, its highest charting album to date (at No. 7). - Dan Shumate]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7175&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Celtic Rock Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:53:46 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.7175 art.7175 Flogging Molly art.7175 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7175&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7175&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Way harder than Michael Flatley. - Michael Ansaldo]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44094&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk Pioneers Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:44 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.44094 art.44094 The Ramones art.44094 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44094&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44094&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Ramones. For many people, those fourteen staggeringly short songs marked a joyous return to real rock 'n' roll -- to a time before the music was muddled by overblown arrangements and self-aggrandizing pomposity. They have been amazingly influential, showing budding musicians everywhere that you don't need technique to create exuberant, catchy and joyous music. Countless imitators followed -- everyone from the Sex Pistols to Blink 182 owe a huge debt to these four Brooklyn-based ne'er-do-wells. Onstage, the frighteningly tall Joey lurched and staggered, dangerously close to falling and impaling himself on the mic stand, while bassist (and primary creative force) Dee Dee shouted "1-2-3-4!" to introduce every song. The Ramones command attention with the sheer energy of their fast and loud sonic onslaught. They love pure pop -- the kind produced by girl groups of the early 1960s and songwriters such as Brian Wilson. "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," "I Wanna Be Sedated," and even "Pet Sematary" are absolutely infectious songs. By melding such hook-laden tunes with an aggressive stance, high volume, and no-frills songwriting, the Ramones became one of the most important rock bands of all time. - Will Lerner]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4538&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:26 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4538 art.4538 AFI art.4538 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4538&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4538&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Black Sails in the Sunset in 1999, their fourth full-length and a substantial darkening of their sound. Later albums, like the platinum-selling Sing the Sorrow and 2006's Decemberunderground, are ambitious, Goth-punk tours de force, combining pummeling rhythms, jarring guitar and tortured vocals with defiantly complex arrangements. Part of a growing prog-punk movement that includes Coheed and Cambria, Angels and Airwaves and Avenged Sevenfold, AFI is worshipped by a black-clad fanbase known as the "the Despair Faction," which has crowned them kings of the Warped Tour nation. - Jonathan Zwickel]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.41092&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:39 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.41092 art.41092 Simple Plan art.41092 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.41092&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.41092&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Still Not Getting Any... in lieu of a more formulaic approach to commercial alternative music, unsurprisingly similar to that of Good Charlotte's proven commercial success and chart-crossing marketability. - Eric Shea]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10872250&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:43 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.10872250 art.10872250 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus art.10872250 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10872250&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10872250&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Don't You Fake It, on Virgin Records. The album blends Warped Tour-approved flavors of the moment into an aggressive, hook-heavy soundtrack to teenaged suburbia. - Jonathan Zwickel]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5563&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Skate Punk Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:52 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5563 art.5563 NOFX art.5563 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5563&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5563&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Liberal Animation on bassist Fat Mike's Fat Wreck Chords record label (and their subsequent releases on well-respected punk indie label Epitaph), they see more of the dough and pay for less of the schmooze-hounds' steak dinners. And like many old school punk bands that lit the fire of their sound during the Ronald Reagan administration, NOFX have shunned the stereotypical punk rock anarchist's image, taking a much more leftist liberal stand against the George W. Bush administration with 2003's War On Errorism and 2006's Wolves In Wolves' Clothing. - Eric Shea]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.54467&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:15 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.54467 art.54467 Good Charlotte art.54467 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.54467&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.54467&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss MTV Cribs, wherein they show off their whips and dubs and what not. The band is fronted by twin brothers Joel and Benji Madden, devout fans of spiky hair and eyeliner both. Billy Martin, Dean Butterworth and Paul Thomas fill out the lineup. The band rode blink-182's coat tails in the early '00s, dropping "Rich And Famous," as well as MTV staple "The Anthem" and touring the world. 2004's Chronicles of Life and Death went platinum, but failed to match the sales of its predecessor. In 2007, the band dropped Good Morning Revival, featuring single "The River," a song that indicated it was just fine staying the pop-punk course it struck gold with five years prior. - Garrett Kamps]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.50328&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:42 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.50328 art.50328 New Found Glory art.50328 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.50328&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.50328&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss It's All About the Girls, that same year. Their 2000 EP, From the Screen to Your Stereo, a collection of creative and uncharacteristic covers of songs from movies, was well received and gave the band something of a distinctive identity among the legions of like-minded punk-pop scrubs operating at the time. By 2004, their fourth proper record, Catalyst, was holding down the No. 3 spot on the Billboard Album charts. The band has steadily toured and released studio and live albums since. An expanded, full-album sequel to From the Screen, suitably titled Part II, appeared in 2007. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5551&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:01 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.5551 art.5551 Bad Religion art.5551 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5551&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5551&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss How Could Hell be Any Worse? in 1980 on founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph label, it wasn't until 1988 when Suffer's (empowering anthem "You are (the Government)" taught more than a few young punks the meaning of "jurisprudence") that the band made a significant splash and settled in for the long haul with a somewhat steady lineup and musical vision. Since then, audiences have received a new earful of gruff-voiced singer Greg Graffin's rants set to frenetic power-chording on a yearly basis. A fine example of staying power gleaned from remaining true (with minor tweaks for maintenance) to an original sound and intent. - Doug Russell]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.34817&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Ska Punk Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:04 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.34817 art.34817 Pepper art.34817 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.34817&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.34817&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.12090892&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:43 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.12090892 art.12090892 Mayday Parade art.12090892 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.12090892&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.12090892&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss A Lesson in Romantics during the summer of 2007. - Richard Iwanik-Marques]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.33831&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Metalcore Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:05 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.33831 art.33831 Atreyu art.33831 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.33831&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.33831&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Underworld Evolution. With a dark, practically goth aesthetic, the band seemed poised for an eventual major label signing like other SoCal kids Avenged Sevenfold and Halifax and were snatched up by Hollywood Records in 2007. Atreyu took their moniker from the protagonist of the film "Neverending Story." - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44642&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:51 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.44642 art.44642 Bowling For Soup art.44642 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44642&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44642&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.58231&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:17 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.58231 art.58231 Yellowcard art.58231 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.58231&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.58231&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Ocean Avenue in 2004, which spawned a series of hit singles and went double platinum. As their fortunes rose, internal tensions erupted, with original guitarist Ben Harper departing the band to focus on his indie label, Takeover Records. He was replaced by Ryan Mendez, previously in the punk band Staring Back. - Michele K-Tel]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.58161&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Contemporary Hard Rock Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:21 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.58161 art.58161 Brand New art.58161 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.58161&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.58161&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2664&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk Pioneers Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:17 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.2664 art.2664 Lou Reed art.2664 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2664&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2664&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss
Before the formation of the Velvet Underground (see entry), in 1965, Reed (b. Lewis Alan Reed, Mar. 2, 1942, Brooklyn, NY) grew up in Freeport, Long Island, then attended Syracuse University, studying poetry (under Delmore Swartz, to whom Reed dedicated a song on the first Velvet Underground album) and journalism. Reed's poems were published in Fusion magazine. (In 1977 he earned an award from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his poem "The Slide" and in 1992 was awarded France's Order of Arts and Letters.) After leaving Syracuse, Reed returned to New York City and worked for Pickwick Records, taking part in the studio group that recorded various Reed-penned songs, released by the Beachnuts and Roughnecks. During this period he met the musicians with whom he would subsequently form the Velvet Underground. With two of them he formed a band called the Primitives, which became the Warlocks and made one record.

Reed's 1970 departure from the Velvet Underground was bitter; he did not even stay to complete their fourth album, Loaded, though songs from that project ("Sweet Jane" and "Rock & Roll") would become permanent fixtures of his live show and reputation. He became a virtual recluse for nearly two years, until moving to England and beginning a solo career in 1971. Transformer (Number 29, 1972) was his pop breakthrough. Produced by Velvet Underground fan David Bowie, it yielded Reed's only Top Twenty hit to date, "Walk on the Wild Side" (Number 16, 1973), an ode to the denizens of Andy Warhol's Sixties films. With Bowie's aid, Reed made the transition to the glitter rock of the period, camping up his presumed homosexuality with bleached-blond hair and black fingernail polish. Typically, the next record, 1973's Berlin, was as grim in tone as Transformer had been playful.

Reed's recordings have continued to be unpredictable. A pair of live albums drawn from the same set of concerts (including the gold-selling Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Number 45, 1974) featured streamlined heavy-metal versions of Velvet Underground, while a later tour would pander to theatrics: Reed, for example, pretended to shoot up while performing the song "Heroin." The critically panned Sally Can't Dance (Number Ten, 1974) was repudiated by Reed almost on release. After another live album, he followed with Metal Machine Music, four vinyl record sides of grating instrumental noise, alternately considered high art worthy of RCA's classical division and a gambit to get off the label.

After a final RCA album, Coney Island Baby (Number 41, 1976), Reed moved to Arista where he made impeccably produced, harrowing music like the title cut of Street Hassle (Number 89, 1978), as well as relatively peaceful outings typified by album titles like Rock and Roll Heart (Number 64, 1976), The Bells (1979) and Growing Up in Public (1980). He married Sylvia Morales on Valentine's Day 1980, and his songs about the seamy side of life began to appear alongside paeons to suburban life — "I'm an average guy," he sang on his critically acclaimed 1982 album The Blue Mask.

In the mid-Eighties Reed gained more of the spotlight when a number of postpunk bands, including R.E.M., U2 and Sonic Youth, began singing his praises and vocally claiming inspiration by the Velvet Underground. The second creative wind that began with the alternately hopeful and frightening Blue Mask continued with the more accessible New Sensations (Number 56, 1984) and Mistrial (Number 47, 1986). Reed then moved to Sire Records, where he hit an artistic plateau with New York (Number 40, 1989), Songs for Drella (1990), and Magic & Loss (1992). A brutal song cycle about urban decay, New York was his first Top Forty album since Sally Can't Dance, and it produced the Number One Modern Rock hit "Dirty Blvd."

In 1989 Reed played guitar on former Velvet Underground drummer Maureen "Moe" Tucker's solo album Life in Exile After Abdication. The same year, he reunited with another UV mate, John Cale, for a work-in-progress performance of Songs for Drella, a pop requiem the two wrote for their late friend and mentor, Andy Warhol, who had died three years earlier; in 1990 an album and video were released. The Velvet Underground reunited in 1993 for some well-received European dates, but again broke up bitterly before their planned U.S. performances (reportedly because Reed insisted on producing the album of the band's upcoming MTV Unplugged appearance, which was subsequently canceled.) The band reunited once more in 1996, after the death of member Sterling Morrison, to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and perform a tribute to the late guitarist.

Reed's 1992 album Magic & Loss (Number 80, 1992), a somber meditation on the process and pain of aging and death, inspired by the cancer deaths of two friends (including songwriter Doc Pomus), was considered his most inspired work since The Blue Mask. The same year, RCA released a boxed set of Reed's music, Between Thought and Expression, which followed a 1991 book of selected Reed lyrics of the same name.

Throughout the Eighties and into the Nineties, Reed showed a newfound political-activist side, appearing at the 1985 Farm Aid benefit concert, the 1986 Amnesty International Tour, and contributing to the Artists United Against Aparteid Sun City record. In 1993 he performed at an inaugural event honoring the home state of former Vice President Al Gore. Reed had also moved into acting, and has appeared in the 1980 movie One Trick Pony, 1993's Faraway, So Close, and 2001's Prozac Nation, as well as in advertisements for Honda scooters, which used "Walk on the Wild Side" as a theme.

Over the years Reed has found affinity with some of rock & roll's romantics and mythologists: Bruce Springsteen appeared uncredited on 1978's Street Hassle, and Reed inducted Dion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; he also cowrote songs for Kiss and Nils Lofgren. Reed's sidemen have included Jack Bruce (ex-Cream) and jazz trumpeter Don Cherry; for The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts he toured with an acclaimed band that included ex-Voidoids guitarist Robert Quine and drummer Fred Maher, as well as former Jean-Luc Ponty bassist Fernandoi Saunders; and for New York and the Magic & Loss tour, he brought along R&B crooner Little Jimmy Scott as a backup vocalist. Split from his wife Sylvia by 1994, Reed was frequently seen in the company of avant-garde performance artist Laurie Anderson, with whom he began improvising instrumental pieces at home.

Anderson served as an emotional influence on 1996's Set the Twilight Reeling (Number 110, Top 200), an album that mixed romance and nostalgia amid Reed's darker interests. That same year, reed collaborated with theatrical director Robert Wilson on the production of Time Rocker; they collaborated again in 2000 on Poe-try, based on the works of Edgar Alan Poe.

After another wait of four years between studio albums, Reed returned in 2000 with Ecstasy, which continued his commitment to minimalist rock & roll with thoughtful, if sometimes confrontational lyrics on dreams, desire and despair. Anderson performed electric violin on two tracks. Reed also published Pass Thru Fire – The Collected Lyrics. In 2003 he released his Poe-try work as a two-CD set, The Raven. After the live Animal Serenade in 2004, Reed lay low for three years. He returned with an all-electronics album that's a sort of anti-Metal Machine Music. The sounds he and producer Hal Wilner created for Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007) are more in line with new age music or the ambient works of Brian Eno. Also in 2007 artist/director Julian Schnabel released a live performance of Reed playing the entirety of his 1973 "lost" masterpiece Berlin at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn — the first time in 33 years the music had been performed. ]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.57390&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:02 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.57390 art.57390 Thrice art.57390 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.57390&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.57390&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Vheissu, is like a sci-fi record with sensitivity, with a title based on a book by Thomas Pynchon and featuring some pretty fancy cover art. Not your run-of-the-mill emo here. - Mike McGuirk]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13966460&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Riot Grrrl Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:35 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.13966460 art.13966460 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts art.13966460 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13966460&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13966460&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Her 25-year-old record label, Blackheart Records, continues to release albums by young punk bands. Jett released her 20-somethingth album, Sinner, in 2006. She still loves rock 'n' roll. - Will Lerner]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4034&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:21:21 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4034 art.4034 Misfits art.4034 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4034&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4034&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6115217&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Pop Punk Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:44 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6115217 art.6115217 Hellogoodbye art.6115217 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6115217&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6115217&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss OMG HGB DVD ROTFL, exposing footage of their wildly enthusiastic stage show. Next up, their 2006 playfully titled full-length Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!, which contained re-tweaked versions of songs written and recorded (yet never released) four years earlier. 2006 saw the release of an EP of album re-mixes and the announcement of another DVD that documents their 2006 Warped Tour antics. - Michele K-Tel]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55117&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk Pioneers Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:47 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.55117 art.55117 The Velvet Underground art.55117 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55117&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.55117&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Loaded (1970), their final album, features two great should've-been radio hits in "Sweet Jane" and "Rock & Roll." After the band called it quits the public slowly started catching on, and Lou Reed's solo work brought many of their songs to FM radio. VU's sound, style, and Reed's sometimes perverse lyrics and deadpan delivery became a major influence on the New York punk scene of the 1970s and the alternative and Indie Rock scenes of the '80s and '90s. Their influence is acknowledged by everyone from David Bowie and Roxy Music to R.E.M. and U2. Influences aside, their body of work only gets better with each passing year. - Charles Hodgkins]]> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8962110&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Emo/Hardcore Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:57:06 -0700 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.8962110 art.8962110 Chiodos art.8962110 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8962110&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8962110&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3183&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss Contemporary Hard Rock Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:59 -0800 Top Punk Artists on Rhapsody Online art.3183 art.3183 Eve 6 art.3183 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3183&variant=play&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3183&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpunk%2Fartist-chart.rss