I'm terrible at thread titles. This thread has nothing to do with curiosity, detective work, or anything related to the music-noir genre (if that exists; if it doesn't exist it should).

What this thread does involve is me asking for help with a stupid assignment that I have to do for my History of Rock and Roll class. I have to formulate some sort of Rock Chronology for the Decade of the Noughts, Double Ohs, Two Thousands, or The Aughts. Whichever is your cup of tea. I mean the years between 2000 and 2009, possibly 2010.

The problem is, there are a very good number of genres that I try to avoid: Pop, Punk, Emo, Rap, etc. I mainly stick to "alternative" rock and "heavy" metal. So I turn to you: the kind, cold-hearted denizens of Eyes on Final Fantasy. Open my eyes to the music that I wish to avoid.

What is needed:

Popular Artists that fall into the Punk, Emo, or "Post-Hardcore" (whatever that nonsense is) categories. As well as bands that fall into the alternative rock genre (since even this is fairly limited for me - anything beyond Radiohead is mostly unknown). The key word is popular. I don't really care about your band, your friend's band, or your local rockin' cover band.

"Developing Trends in Music." I'm fairly far removed from all the nonsense that comes with music trendiness, though I am familiar with some of the more popular trends in music. Anything for this category will suffice.

Individual Songs. This mostly goes with the whole Popular Artists thing, but gets a category of its own because it is special or something. I'm fully capable of looking at things like Pitchfork, Billboard Music, and all those other sites that fancy themselves the go-to chart of music. I mostly need anything that I've forgotten that fit within the genres I've listed (charts that deal specifically with genres by themselves, rather than tries to list popular songs from every single genre under the sun). Links to websites will suffice.

Art Work. I have no idea why this is really in here but I guess music and art are kind of intertwined somehow. Popular artists, styles of art, painters, sculptors, etc would fit into this category. I hate art. Again, 2000-2009 only, I don't care about Andy Warhol.

Whew. That's a lot of typing and probably gives the appearance that I want you to do my work for me. That's not really the case, as I have a long list of things that fit into each category that I listed. The purpose is to broaden my horizons and what I cover. There are other people working on this project (it's a group project because I somehow managed to time travel back to high school) so there will be a meeting of the minds (somewhat, pretty sure the other people in my group are retarded in a non-slang way) but whatever help would be greatly appreciated.


As a reward, your help will be categorized in the following ways:

Platinum: For anyone who decides they want to do the assignment for me by sending me a long list of everything I asked for through PM. As a reward, you may choose from the list of the following: an internet hug (your choice of delivery), declaration of my undying love (approximate value: $.50), a fancy and original drawing by yours truly (approximate value: $600.00), or a photo calender containing pictures of NorthernChaosGod and GuardianXIII doing dirty things to each other with a special appearance by Jiro.

Gold: For anyone who provides information on any of the categories, however large or small and useful the information is. Rewards for this are as follows: a warm embrace (lasting no less than 2 seconds and no more than 5 seconds), a letter of sincerest thanks written by me to whoever you wish it to be written to; must be a member of EoFF), a signed first edition copy of my memoir titled Cancer Kills: The Life, Times, and Untimely End of an Internet Legend: The Book: The Movie: The Video Game.

Potato: For anyone who posts in this thread but does not provide any information that I am asking for. Rewards for this include, but are not limited to, the following: