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Stone Sour
Stone Sour, the Des Moines, Iowa alternative metal and post-grunge band formed in 1992 around Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Jim Root with Josh Rand; known for Come What(ever) May, Through Glass, House of Gold & Bones, and Hydrograd.
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots, San Diego rock band formed as Mighty Joe Young, fronted by Scott Weiland; Core (1992) and Purple (1994) multi-platinum; later singers Chester Bennington and Jeff Gutt.
Stonebwoy
Stonebwoy (Livingstone Etse Satekla), Ghanaian Afro-dancehall, reggae and afrobeats artist from Ashaiman near Accra; 2015 BET Best International Act Africa winner, Def Jam signee, founder of BHIM Festival.
Storm Large
Storm Large (Susan Storm Large, born 1969) is an American singer from Massachusetts: Rock Star: Supernova finalist (2006), Pink Martini vocalist since 2011, creator of Crazy Enough, and Oregon Book Award-winning memoirist.
Story of the Year
Story of the Year, formerly Big Blue Monkey, is an American rock band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 1995 and known for its 2003 platinum debut album Page Avenue.
Straight No Chaser (group)
Straight No Chaser (SNC) is an American a cappella group founded in 1996 at Indiana University's Singing Hoosiers; its 1998 "12 Days of Christmas" video went viral, leading to an Atlantic Records deal in 2008.
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawberry Alarm Clock, successor to Thee Sixpence, is a Southern California psychedelic rock band whose 1967 single "Incense and Peppermints" topped the Billboard Hot 100; still active with five original members and the 2026 album Where's One?.
Strawbs
Strawbs, English rock band founded 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys, led by Dave Cousins; first UK act signed to A&M Records, folk rock to progressive rock, 1973 hit Part of the Union at UK No. 2; Cousins died 2025.
Stray Cats
Stray Cats, an American rockabilly revival trio (Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker, Slim Jim Phantom) formed 1979 in Massapequa, New York; known for the hits "Rock This Town," "Stray Cat Strut," and "(She's) Sexy + 17," and for moving to London in 1980 to spearhead the early-1980s rockabilly revival.
Streetlight Manifesto
Streetlight Manifesto: New Jersey ska punk band formed 2002 by ex-Catch 22 songwriter Tomas Kalnoky; albums Everything Goes Numb (2003) through The Hands That Thieve (2013), Victory Records lawsuit, 2026 tour.
String octet
String octet: chamber music for eight strings, four violins, two violas, two cellos. Founded by Spohr's 1823 Double Quartet and defined by Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 (1825), later Enescu, Bruch, and Respighi.
String quartet
String quartet: an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello, or a work for it. Established by Haydn (68 quartets), modeled by Op. 33 and Mozart's 1785 Haydn quartets, expanded by Beethoven's 16 quartets and 20th-century works.
String quintet
String quintet: a five-player chamber ensemble, one to a part, no conductor. Standard scorings add a second viola (Mozart, Brahms), a second cello (Boccherini, Schubert's C major D. 956), or a double bass (Onslow) to the string quartet.
String trio
String trio: chamber ensemble of three strings, usually violin, viola, and cello or two violins and cello. Grew from the baroque trio sonata; landmark works include Mozart's Divertimento K. 563 and Beethoven's Op. 9 trios.
Stu Cook
Stu Cook (born 1945, Oakland, California) is the founding bassist of Creedence Clearwater Revival (1959–1972), a 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and co-founder with Doug Clifford of Creedence Clearwater Revisited, which played 1,755 shows from 1995 to 2020.
Stuart Adamson
Stuart Adamson (William Stuart Adamson, 1958–2001), Scottish guitarist and songwriter, founded The Skids and Big Country; known for the bagpipe guitar sound, The Crossing, Steeltown, over 10 million albums sold, died by suicide in Honolulu.
Stuart Cable
Stuart Cable (19 May 1970 – 7 June 2010), Welsh drummer and broadcaster, founding drummer of Stereophonics; sacked 2003, later BBC Wales presenter, died at 40 in Llwydcoed.
Stuart Sutcliffe
Stuart Sutcliffe (Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe), Scottish painter and original bassist of the Beatles, 1940–1962; left the band in 1961 for the Hamburg State School of Art under Paolozzi, died at 21 of a brain haemorrhage, leaving a 600-piece body of work.
Stuart Zender
Stuart Patrick Jude Zender, born in 1974 in Sheffield, England, is a British bassist best known as the original bass player of the funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai.
Studio Killers
Studio Killers are a virtual electropop band formed in 2011 with characters Cherry, Goldie Foxx, Dyna Mink, and Bipolar Bear; known for "Ode to the Bouncer", the viral "Jenny", and anonymous English-Danish-Finnish musicians behind Finnish-designed artwork.
Sturgill Simpson
Sturgill Simpson, also known as Johnny Blue Skies, is an American country singer-songwriter born 1978 in Jackson, Kentucky, known for Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, the Grammy-winning A Sailor's Guide to Earth, and his 2024 pseudonymous reinvention.
Styx (band)
Styx, American rock band formed in Chicago in 1972, also called a pomp rock and arena rock pioneer. Known for The Grand Illusion, Paradise Theater, "Babe", and "Mr. Roboto"; still touring with Shaw, JY Young, and Gowan.
Sublime (band)
Sublime: Long Beach, California ska-punk/reggae band formed 1988 by Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh; albums 40oz. to Freedom, Robbin' the Hood, self-titled 1996 (over 5 million copies), and 2026's Until the Sun Explodes with Jakob Nowell.
Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome was a Long Beach, California rock band formed in 2009 by Sublime's Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh with singer Rome Ramirez, renamed for legal reasons; it released four albums, 2011-2024, before ending as Sublime reformed with Jakob Nowell.
Suede (band)
Suede (the London Suede in the US) are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by Brett Anderson and Mat Osman; their 1993 debut was the fastest-selling in UK history, won the Mercury Prize, and launched Britpop.
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens, born 1975 in Detroit, is an American indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Known for Illinois, Carrie & Lowell, Asthmatic Kitty Records, his Oscar-nominated Mystery of Love, and 2023's Javelin.
Sugababes
Sugababes: English pop trio formed in London in 1998 (Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, Siobhán Donaghy), aka MKS. Six UK No. 1 singles across four lineups; original trio regained the name in 2019.
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray is an American pop-rock band from Newport Beach, California, co-founded by Mark McGrath and Rodney Sheppard; formerly The Tories/Shrinky Dinx, funk-metal on Lemonade and Brownies (1995), known for "Fly" (1997) and "Every Morning".
Sugarland
Sugarland is an American country music duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2002, consisting of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, known for "Stay" and five straight CMA Vocal Duo of the Year awards.
Suggs
Suggs, born Graham McPherson, is an English singer-songwriter, radio presenter, and actor best known as the lead singer of the ska band Madness since 1977.