今年九月號的Spin，列出了二十五組世上最棒的現場樂隊。

名單如下:

1. U2
2. The Stooges
3. Arcade Fire
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Radiohead
6. White Stripes
7. Green Day
8. The Hives
9. Prince
10. The Dirtbombs
11. Queens Of The Stone Age
12. Turbonegro
13. My Chemical Romance
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15. Riverboat Gamblers
16. The Flaming Lips
17. The Roots
18. My Morning Jacket
19. Art Brut
20. Gogol Bordello
21. Against Me!
22. LCD Soundsystem
23. AFI
24. The Mars Volta
25. Comets On Fire

將時鐘調回四年前。2002年九月號的Q，也列出了五十組你掛掉之前一定要看的樂隊（50 Bands You Must See Before You Die…）。如下:

1. AC/DC
2. Ash
3. The Beta Band
4. Tony Bennett
5. Pink Floyd
6. Kraftwerk
7. The Who
8. The Pogues
9. The Fall
10. Oasis
11. Hundred Reasons
12. The White Stripes
13. D’angelo
14. The Flaming Lips
15. Femi Anikulapo-Kuti & The Positive Force
16. Badly Drawn Boy
17. Ian Brown
18. Guns’n’roses
19. Bob Dylan
20. New Order
21. The Rolling Stones
22. Neil Young
23. Prodigy
24. Kilie
25. Paul Oakenfold
26. Fatboy Slim
27. Mr Scruff
28. Osymyso
29. Eddie Halliwell
30. Dj Hell
31. Erick Morillo
32. Tom Stephan
33. High Contrast
34. DJ Yoda
35. Primal Scream
36. RL Burnside
37. PJ Harvey
38. Slipknot
39. Radiohead
40. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
41. Fairport Convention
42. U2
43. The Vines
44. Madonna
45. The Soundtrack Of Ourlives
46. Ryan Adams
47. The Strokes
48. Outkast
49. Orbital
50. The Hives

兩份名單再度彰顯了英美兩地在評選List時不同的出發點；以及相隔四年搖滾樂壇所產生的劇烈變化，如The Vines已被樂評人拋棄，而Yeah Yeah Yeahs才正當紅。