B конце 1980-х годов благодаря серии удачных альбомов популярность The Cure росла, в том числе в США, где несколько синглов группы попали в Billboard Hot 100. К началу 1990-х годов The Cure стали одной из самых популярных групп в жанре альтернативного рока.
The Cure считаются одними из создателей и наиболее значительных фигур постпанка и готик-рока. При этом сам Robert Smith возражал против того, чтобы его группу ассоциировали с готик-роком, он говорил, что это "невероятно скучная и монотонная музыка. Что-то заупокойное". При этом The Cure играли и позитивную поп-ориентированную музыку. Как отмечал автор музыкального журнала Spin, "The Cure всегда были одним из двух: либо Robert Smith плавает в готической печали, либо своими подведёнными губной помадой пальцами наигрывает сладкий, похожий на сахарную вату поп".

8 октября 2009 года было официально объявлено о том, что группа распалась. Причина распада Oasis - постоянные конфликты братьев Gallagher, из-за которых они больше не могли находиться вместе на одной сцене. За 18 лет существования группа выпустила 7 студийных альбомов, каждый из которых возглавлял хит-парад Великобритании и получал мультиплатиновый статус.
The Many Faces Of Oasis представляет малоизвестные страницы творчества участников группы, живые выступления, сотрудничество с другими музыкантами и параллельные проекты - кусочки мозаики, из которых сложена картина Oasis.

"Zero" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the third single from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. "Zero" was written by Billy Corgan and was the first song recorded for Mellon Collie. The song has six rhythm guitars, with two line-in twelve string acoustics. Commercially, "Zero" reached number one in Spain and number three in New Zealand. In North America, the song reached number one on Canada's RPM Alternative 30, number 15 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and number nine on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart. In the United States, the song was released as an EP, so it instead charted on the Billboard 200, making it to number 46.

Here We Stand is the second studio album by Scottish rock band The Fratellis, released on 9 June 2008. Self produced by the band in their own studio in Scotland, Here We Stand reached and peaked at number five in the UK Albums Chart on 15 June 2008.

Hypnotize is the fifth studio album by Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down. It was released on November 22, 2005, six months after the release of its companion album Mezmerize. Mezmerize and Hypnotize both debuted at number #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making the band one of the few to achieve this with two albums in the same year.

Visiting this meagre shrine to a forgotten band you can't help but feel the name Send No Flowers was prophetic; three votes on a sputnik album page isn't much of a legacy, this unkempt grave hardly receives visitors let alone flowers. History is littered with artists who fell just short of what's required and it's one of life's certainties that they'll never go short of cadavers at The Graveyard of Washed Up Rock Bands. Sometimes it's a mystery why a particular group end up here, other times it's really no mystery at all, and although the British press were at a loss as to why this more than competent grunge outfit failed to set the world alight if you look closely the clues were there right from the very start.

Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released on May 9, 2006, on Warner Bros. Records. The album produced five singles: "Dani California", "Tell Me Baby", "Snow (Hey Oh)", "Desecration Smile", and "Hump de Bump" along with the first ever fan made music video for the song, "Charlie". In the U.S., Stadium Arcadium became the band's first number one selling album. According to the band's vocalist Anthony Kiedis, Stadium Arcadium was originally scheduled to be a trilogy of albums each released six months apart, but was eventually condensed into a double album. The album is also the group's last to feature guitarist John Frusciante, who confirmed his departure from the band in 2009.

In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 is the second official compilation album released by R.E.M. Issued in 2003, it includes tracks from their Warner Bros. Records era, from 1988's Green to 2001's Reveal, as well as two new recordings and two songs from movie soundtracks. The album was the tenth-best-selling album of 2003 in the UK, and the 50th-best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is the 10th studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996, in Europe and Australia and the following day in the United States. New Adventures in Hi-Fi was the last album recorded with founding member Bill Berry (who left the band amicably the following year), original manager Jefferson Holt, and long-time producer Scott Litt. It is also their longest studio album, with a total track time of 65 minutes.

Evel Knievel Factor is the second studio-album by the Finnish rock group Private Line. It was released in Finland on 1 November 2006. Two singles have been released from the album: "Broken Promised Land" on 31 May 2005, and "Sound Advice" on 28 January 2007. The b-side on the "Broken Promised Land" single is the album track "Uniform", while as b-sides to "Sound Advice" are two previously unreleased songs, "Tokyo" and "Criminal". The title is a reference to legendary American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel.

Hit is a 2003 compilation album of songs by British musician Peter Gabriel. It reached No. 29 in the UK album charts and No. 100 in the US. Disc one is labelled Hit and disc two Miss, reflecting the first disc's containing several of Gabriel's biggest-selling singles.