My Favorite Bands and Musicians

1. Green Day

Soundtrack | Shoot 'Em Up

Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. For much of the band's career, they have been a trio with drummer Tré Cool, who replaced John Kiffmeyer in 1990 prior to the recording of the band's second studio album...

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Soundtrack | Goosebumps

Yeah Yeah Yeahs is known for Goosebumps (2015), Before I Fall (2017) and Project X (2012).

3. Sleater-Kinney

Soundtrack | The Horse Whisperer

Sleater-Kinney is a rock band formed in 1994 in Olympia, Washington. Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker play guitar and do vocals. Janet Weiss plays drums. The band has released 8 studio albums -- Sleater-Kinney (1995), Call the Doctor (1996), Dig Me Out (1997), The Hot Rock (1999), All Hands on ...

4. Black Sabbath

Soundtrack | Iron Man

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre ...

5. Nirvana

Soundtrack | The Batman

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting and best-known being Dave Grohl, who joined in 1990. Despite releasing only three ...

6. The Smashing Pumpkins

Soundtrack | The Saint

The Smashing Pumpkins is known for The Saint (1997), Transformers (2007) and Rampage (2018).

7. Alela Diane

Actress | Rifle Workbook

Alela Diane is known for Rifle Workbook (2007), Tomorrow and Thereafter (2017) and Son & Lumière (2017).

8. Julieta Venegas

Soundtrack | Maria Full of Grace

1 Grammy award 2006 Best Latin Pop Album Limon Y Sal 5 Latin Grammy awards 2016 Best Pop/Rock Album Algo Sucede 2010 Best Short Form Music Video Bien o Mal 2008 Best Alternative Music Album MTV UNPLUGGED 2008 Best Long Form Music Video MTV UNPLUGGED 2006 Best Alternative Music Album Limón Y Sal

9. The White Stripes

Soundtrack | Suicide Squad

The White Stripes is known for Suicide Squad (2016), Wicker Park (2004) and Justice League (2017).

10. Björk

Soundtrack | Dancer in the Dark

Born in 1965 in the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavik, the daughter of Gudmundur Gunnarsson (an electrician) and Hildur Hauksdóttir who divorced before her second birthday, Björk grew up in a hippie-type community with her mother and her seven siblings. She started to study classical music at the...

11. Regina Spektor

Soundtrack | Bombshell

Regina Spektor was born in Moscow, USSR to a musical Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Russian college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school in New York. Spektor learned how to play piano ...

12. Tori Amos

Soundtrack | Twister

At age one, Tori and her family moved to Baltimore, where she spent much of her childhood. She started playing piano at a very early age (2 1/2). At the age of five, she was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory of Music (Arts school); she was the youngest person to be accepted to the school. ...

13. Alice in Chains

Soundtrack | Singles

Alice in Chains is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney. Since its formation, Alice in Chains has released five studio albums. Their debut album, Facelift, featuring the hit single "Man In The Box", was released ...

14. Soundgarden

Soundtrack | The Avengers

Soundgarden are an internationally successful American alternative rock band, who first appeared from amidst the damp and misty city of Seattle, Washington. Along with Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, Nirvana and the Screaming Trees, they formed what was referred to as the 'Grunge' movement of the early ...

15. Oasis

Soundtrack | The Butterfly Effect

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Oasis have had eight UK number-one singles and eight UK number-one albums. They have won seventeen NME Awards, nine Q Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six Brit Awards, including one in 2007 for Outstanding Contribution to Music ...

16. Fiona Apple

Soundtrack | Pleasantville

Daughter of former singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. She was classically trained as a pianist as a child and began composing songs when she was eight years old. She crafted a demo tape while in Los Angeles finishing High School. When she returned home to New York for Christmas one of ...

17. Bouncing Souls

Soundtrack | Ken Park

18. The Doors

Soundtrack | The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and John Densmore on drums. The band got its name, at Morrison's suggestion from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception. They were ...

19. PJ Harvey

Soundtrack | The Basketball Diaries

Polly Jean Harvey was born in England on October 9th 1969. The daughter of a quarryman father and an artist mother, Polly Jean, or PJ as she is more commonly known, was raised on a sheep farm in Yeovil, Somerset. She learned to play a number of instruments as a child (including guitar, saxophone, ...

20. Bikini Kill

Soundtrack | Not Another Teen Movie

21. Skin

Actress | Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey

Known the world over for her sensational music career as front-woman of Skunk Anansie and solo artist, Skin is a cross-media, cross-culture, and cross-art form icon. She is a creative powerhouse known also for her presence in the worlds of fashion, art, film, dj-ing, cinema, television, journalism,...

22. Skunk Anansie

Soundtrack | The Losers

Skunk Anansie is known for The Losers (2010), Hollow Man (2000) and Strange Days (1995).

23. St. Vincent

Soundtrack | The Nowhere Inn

St. Vincent was born on September 28, 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Nowhere Inn (2020), XX (2017) and Greta (2018).

24. Sia

Soundtrack | Sia: Chandelier

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer, songwriter, record producer and music video director. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album titled ...

25. Hozier

Soundtrack | The Legend of Tarzan

Hozier was born on March 17, 1990 in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. He is a music artist and composer, known for The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Live by Night (2016) and Wish I Was Here (2014).

26. Jack White

Soundtrack | Quantum of Solace

Jack played guitar and sang in the band The White Stripes. They released six albums: their self-titled debut -- "The White Stripes", "De Stijl", "White Blood Cells", "Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan", and "Icky Thump", before breaking up in 2011.

White also sings and plays guitar in the band The ...

27. Bob Dylan

Soundtrack | Renaldo and Clara

Robert Allen Zimmerman was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the...