The 2000s were for the most part, nondescript, as pop music fragmented into smaller trends. Unlike many past decades, the 2000s did not see the creation or emergence of many styles, with the exception of a few indie-related genres such as emo and electronic subgenres like Liquid funk and UK funky. Convergence of different styles was one of the more defining features of the decade, as seen with the creation and commercial success of the British grime genre and trap and chillwave in the United States.
Nevertheless, distinguishable elements can be attributed to the decade from a musical point of view, such as the common and mainstream usage of pitch correction software Auto-Tune, as well as the rise of the internet, media player programmes such as iTunes and music & video sharing websites such as YouTube. Also, most songs put less focus on elaborate bass-lines that use bass guitars and bass synthesisers in favour of louder and booming drums, and used even more electrical instruments.
Outside of North America, Britpop, post punk revival and alternative rock were at the height their popularity with acts such as The Libertines, Oasis, Lynda Thomas, Travis, Dido, Blur, The Hives, Björk and Radiohead, which still continued at the top of the major charts in the rest of the world since the 1990s.
Despite the hip hop dominance rock music was still popular, notably alternative rock, and especially genres such as post-grunge, post-Britpop, nu metal, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, metalcore, and in some cases indie rock; the early and mid 2000s saw a resurgence in the mainstream popularity of pop rock and power pop.
Johnny Marr had given Noel one of his guitars in the early days when he was broke. Now he was able to buy any guitar that took his fancy
Noel & Liam Gallagher from Oasis backstage before performing onstage at Wembley Stadium in July 2000
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke photographed in Amsterdam, May 2006 during a cover shoot for Mojo Magazine
Keith Richards performing with The Rolling Stones onstage at the Feyenoordstadion Rotterdam, Holland in August 2003
Bono & The Edge from U2 live onstage in Boston, Massachusetts in June 2001
Amy Winehouse captured in a Primrose Hill cafe during a photo shoot with Jake Chessum in February 2004.
"This image of Bob Dylan and bass player Tony Garnier, snatched at an open air concert in Italy, sums up a beautiful partnership."
Amy Winehouse captured in the corridor of the Union Chapel - "She seemed particularly happy that night" - Jill Furmanovsky
"At the time, the chances of this gig actually happening at all seemed very remote, Amy arrived an hour and a half late for her slot."
Stunning image of Amy Winehouse taken in a North London launderette during a photo shoot in winter 2004.
February 2004, Amy Winehouse is captured in a launderette in Primrose Hill by Jake Chessum
Amy Winehouse performing onstage at the world famous Union Chapel in Islington, London in November 2006
David Bowie wearing a black scarf on a photo shoot by Mick Rock in New York in 2002
Amy Winehouse photographed backstage at the Union Chapel, Islington during her Little Noise Sessions acoustic charity gig in November 2006
Candid black & white photograph of Amy Winehouse taken in Camden, London in February 2004
Amy Winehouse all wrapped up on a freezing day on Primrose Hill in February 2004.
Amy Winehouse at home in her flat in Camden Town in February 2004
Al Foster performs onstage at the Market Hall in Brecon, Wales at the annual Jazz Festival
Exclusive print of Amy Winehouse specially created for us by The Postman, based on a photograph taken by Mark Mawston in 2008.
Amy Winehouse photographed by Jake Chessum in her favourite greasy spoon in Primrose Hill in 2004
Contact sheet of beautiful photographs of Amy Winehouse taken by Jake Chessum in February 2004
This photo was taken in 2007 during the Camden Crawl, a music festival over two days around the venues in Camden Town, London.
Limited edition screen print of a mugshot of Prince created by artist David Studwell
Contact sheet of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers photographed at Hyde Park, London in 1991
Led Zeppelin performing at Madison Square Garden, New York, USA 1977.
Underwater photo of Krist Novoselic in a LA swimming pool whilst on a Nirvana publicty shoot
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