Believe it or not, the Jersey boy choruses of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" helped Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day album earn the group their biggest first-week sales yet. But they weren't the only rock band …

From the Killers and Kings of Leon to My Chemical Romance and Crossfade, 2005 had more than its fair share of breakthrough rock bands. It was really a year marked by second chances, though. With Velvet …

Before you get confused, the Exies and Sevendust didn't finish 2005 off with two versions of the same track. They just translated the same song title ("Ugly") differently, with the former dragging us,  …

More than a decade after Nirvana's final album, post-grunge music was still leaving its mark on modern rock, including the unstoppable crossover cuts of Nickelback ("Figured You Out," "Feelin' Way Too  …

Don't worry - your ears aren't playing tricks on you. That really is the return of Counting Crows and Collective Soul at the tail-end of our 2004 Rock Essentials, bringing us back to the mid-'90s with  …

Ever since electronica's sudden emergence in the mid- to-late '90s, the house that disco built has been razed and remodeled so many times we barely recognize it anymore. That's a good thing - much like …

Low Motion Disco is exactly what their name implies: a slo-mo soundtrack synced up to blinking glitter balls and a loft-party crowd that refuses to rest until the sun comes up. Aeroplane - the able-han …

By the time the '00s rolled around, the Information Age was well under way and music's every stylistic strand seemed to be sewn into a single thread. Instead of occupying their own separate worlds, roc …

The '00s may have been filled with fresh sounds from groundbreaking artists, but that doesn't mean the new breed had no sense of musical history. The Dixie Chicks did more than anyone to tear down the  …