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

Madonna　

Madonna ..more

Magma　

Led by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, the Paris-based Magma have been, in their way, perhaps the ultimate progressive rock group; while other artists have achieved greater commerc ..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

Mama's Boys　

In the wake of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal explosion of the early ’80s, several bands attempted to blend in with the movement even though they formed long after such bands as Iron Maiden ..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

Maneskin　

Manic Street Preachers　

Dressed in glam clothing, wearing heavy eyeliner, and shouting political rhetoric, the Manic Street Preachers emerged in 1991 from their hometown of Blackwood, Wales, as self-styled Generation ..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

Marillion　

Marillion emerged from the brief progressive rock revival of the early ’80s to become an international recording and touring phenomenon who have sold more than 15 million albums and host fan clubs ..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

Maroon 5　

A mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the new millennium, with songs like This Love, She Will Be Loved, and Makes Me Wonder all topping the ch ..more

Megadeth　

After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though Megadeth followed the basic blueprint of Metallica’s relentless attack ..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

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

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

Meshuggah　

Offering a complex form of metal that combined the sweeping adventurism of math rock, the oddball tempos of experimental jazz, and the stunning brutality of thrash metal, Meshuggah raised the bar f ..more

Metallica　

American quartet Metallica were one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the ’80s and ’90s, inspiring generations of rockers with their early thrash and later hard rock sounds before settli ..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

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band