Some British bands found a vast new fanbase Stateside, while other seminal acts failed to crack America. What gives?

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Even rock’s biggest bands have to start somewhere. Virtually ...

The rock bands on this list are all British, but they all sound American. While no one will confuse Gavin Rossdale, Joe Elliott, or Mick Jagger with a Yankee, they each front groups with a distinctly ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Nothing exists in isolation or appears out of thin air and this is true of the British drummers who changed rock to hard rock, leading eventually to heavy metal. Bill Ward, John ...

What 1990s Brit Rock bands should have been bigger in the U.S.? If we're being honest, the answer is most of them. Where previous decades had a pretty solid representation of rock acts hailing from ...

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Stone Roses and Primal Scream ex-bass player Gary Mounfield has died at age 63. Those groups were two of the most influential British rock bands of the past four decades. Mounfield's former Stone ...

Americans don’t mind an invasion if you arrive with mod looks, guitars, and good tunes, yet many British bands struggled to make it in the U.S.