British styles of music

UK garage (also known as UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from the United Kingdom in the early 1990s.

Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a subgenre of indie rock, alternative rock, or neo-psychedelia that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and reached peak popularity in the early 1990s.

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative/indie rock with post-disco dance music.

Electric folk is the name given to the form of folk rock pioneered in England from the late 1960s, and most significant in the 1970s, which then was taken up and developed in the surrounding Celtic cultures of Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man, to produce Celtic rock and its derivatives.

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres.

Sophisti-pop is a subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.

Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rock and roll, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues.

The term freakbeat was coined in the 1980s by the music journalist Phil Smee to retroactively describe the music of certain harder-driving British rock bands, often those with a mod following ,during the Swinging London period of the mid to late 1960s.

Punk blues (or blues punk) is a fusion genre of punk rock and blues.

Anarcho-punk (or anarchist punk) is punk rock that promotes anarchism.

Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s.

Ethnic electronica (also known as ethnotronica, ethno electronica or ethno techno) combines elements of electronic and world music and was developed in the 1990s.

Heavy metal guitar (or simply metal guitar) is the use of highly-amplified electric guitar in heavy metal.

Not to be confused with bouncy house / donk.

British rhythm and blues (or R&B) was a musical movement that developed in the United Kingdom between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, and reached a peak in the mid-1960s.

British soul, Brit soul, or the British soul invasion, is soul music performed by British artists.

British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom.