Rock music is a genre of music that came about and came into the "mainstream" in the 1960s. It has developed from the 1950's & 1960's rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music it can also sometimes cross over into folk music, jazz and classical music. Rock music usually revolves around the electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and different keyboard instruments.
Nivana is a legendary band in the rock/grunge genre, the famous frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide at the age of 27. Stereotypical of the rock mentallity of "Live Hard Die Young" most bands will take drugs or even become addicts during their music career.
Rock has many subgenres, and crossover genres, here are a few examples.
Alternative rock – Art rock – Britpop – Desert rock – Detroit rock – Emo – Experimental rock – Garage rock – Glam rock – Grunge – Hard rock – Heavy metal – Instrumental rock – Indie rock – Jangle pop – Krautrock – Progressive rock – Protopunk – Psychedelia – Punk rock – Rock noir – Soft rock – Southern rock – Surf – Symphonic rock.
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