I am a musician myself. I'm self trained on guitar and bass guitar. I've also taddled a bit over the years with the Recorder, Harmonica, Viola, Piano, Alto Sax.
So being a musician I am partial to talented musicians that play their own instruments. So that singles out singers like Celine Dion and Britney Spears who shake their ass on MTV for the record company.
I am also less fo a fan of lesser talented bands who do nothing but play power chords for MTV because the record company edits and tells them what to play in order sell to the masses of suckers who purchase their music.
That being said I am a fan of Rock and all forms of rock music including, POP, Hard Rock, Metal, Reggae, Blues Rock, etc... Some of my favs include but are not limited to:
The Tea Party (My all time fav)
Jeff Martin
The Art Decay
Iron Maiden
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jeff Healy
Colin James
Dire Straits
Eric Clapton
Dave Matthews Band
Grateful Dead
Gordon Lightfoot
Neil Young
Les Claypool
Primus
Bob Marley
Jethro Tull
etc.... way too many to name