If you want well-balanced good-overall musical rock set with quite new material I'd suggest these: Queens of the stone age (maybe best riff-rock there is) the strokes (boys from N.Y, damn good rock) radiohead (ok computer rated as the best album in the world in all genres :!: ) muse (everyone likes muse \, queen is dead, long live muse ) foo fighters (classical very good rock. Dave Grohl is nicest man in rock) franz ferdinand (unique indierock) Lenny kravitz (there is no such a person that would not like lenny kravitz, really) Arctic monkeys (new britt-rock) the white stripes (stylish rockish alternative thingie) In case you want some super-progre I'd suggest kingston wall. No offence, but afterall those bands are bit more fresher than bands such as guns 'n' roses, m̮̦̉̉tley crue, iron maden, the scorpions ect. why everyone still worship bands with all their members like... dead? no offence, they still are good music, but really, get to 21th century pl0x