Melvins　

The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath, picking up where Black Flag left off with My War. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy ..more

Magnum　

Hard rockers Magnum got their start in Birmingham, England, in the mid-’70s. The band’s first album, Kingdom of Madness, came out in 1978, right in the midst of the punk rock musical revolution. ..more

MGMT　

Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide’s hostile, proto-electro punk art noise and the sardonic, pop-friendly sound of the Flaming Lips, MGMT started as electroclash musical terrori ..more

Mark Knopfler　

Mark Knopfler is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader. His group, Dire Straits, was formed in London in 1977 and went on to become an international success after the release of its de ..more

Melanie　

No talent who came out of Woodstock and who continued actively performing more than a quarter century later remained as closely associated with the 1960s and flower power than Melanie. Born ..more

The Move　

The Move were the best and most important British group of the late ’60s that never made a significant dent in the American market. Through the band’s several phases (which were sometimes dictated ..more

Melissa Manchester　

MOR singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, whose father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera, began singing commercial jingles at age 15 and went on to become a staff writer for C ..more

Mitski　

In 1990 the Miyawaki family was living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but her pregnant mother wanted the unborn Mitski to have a Japanese passport, so she flew back to Japan to give birth ..more

Madeleine Peyroux　

Vocalist Madeleine Peyroux is an acclaimed performer with a dusky, lyrical style and a bent toward covering jazz and blues standards along with her own folky originals. Bursting onto the internatio ..more

Mansun　

Arriving in the aftermath of Brit-pop, Mansun was one of the first British guitar bands to depart from the prevailing styles of the mid-’90s, leaving both light, Beatlesque pop and studied trad- ..more

Maneskin　

Michael Monroe　

In a perfect world, Michael Monroe would have been one of the leading frontmen of the ・0s glam metal movement -- leaving most of his unbearable contemporaries in the dust. Born Matti Fagerholm ..more

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band　

Moon Safari　

Myrath　

Moby Grape　

One of the best ’60s San Francisco bands, Moby Grape were also one of the most versatile. Although they are most often identified with the psychedelic scene, their specialty was combining all so ..more

Mandalaband　

Mandalaband were not one, but really two of England’s more ambitious progressive rock ensembles, featuring two completely different lineups behind the same guiding personality. The second incarnati ..more

Mina Okabe　

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway　

Mick Mars