Rock music/Catalogs/Rock bands

This is an incomplete list of articles on bands that perform rock music, in chronological order of their founding year.

1950s

1957

• The Beatles (original name was The Quarrymen)

Origin: Liverpool, England

Status: defunct

1960s

1961

• The Beach Boys

Origin: Hawthorne, California, United States

Status: active

1962

• The Rolling Stones

Origin: London, England

Status: active

1964

• The Who

Origin: London, England

Status: active

1965

• Jefferson Airplane

Origin: San Francisco, California, United States

Status: renamed to Jefferson Starship, occasionally active

• Pink Floyd

Origin: Cambridge, England

Status: on hiatus

1966

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Origin: London, England

Status: defunct

1968

• Yes (band)

Origin: London, England

Status: on hiatus

1970s

1970

• Lynyrd Skynyrd

Origin: Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Status: active

• Queen

Origin: London, England

Status: active

1973

• Kaveret

Origin: Israel

Status: defunct

1975

• Sex Pistols

Origin: London, England

Status: defunct, with occasional reunions in recent years

1976

• Joy Division

Origin: Salford, England

Status: defunct, remnants renamed to New Order

1980s

1989

• Green Day

Origin: Oakland, California, United States

Status: active

1990s

1991

• Rage Against the Machine

Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States

Status: active

1998

• Relient K

Origin: Canton, Ohio, United States

Status: active

2000s

2001

• The Reputation

Origin: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Status: defunct