1.   American rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Brujeria write songs about the Zapatistas.

2.   American rock charts are currently dominated by nu-metal bands such as Staind, Disturbed and System of a Down, acts that have no English equivalent.

3.   American rock stars tend not to rhapsodize about drugs to the press.

4.   Blur members also make no secret of what they consider the sorry state of American rock.

5.   A man and a woman sat halfway out of their car windows and swayed to the American rock music that blared from their car.

6.   But then we came along, and all the American rock died down for a while.

7.   But when he and his students charted the drift of the north magnetic pole shown by European rocks it did not match the path shown by American rocks.

8.   El Vez is a multiethnic, multicultural, multicostumed revolutionary who reinvents American rock from a socialist Hispanic perspective.

9.   Dylan is leading one of the best bands of his career, a group that switches from bluesy American rock to a drumless string-band lineup.

10.   For good measure, Ikura also provided the entertainment, belting out American rock songs with his band, also called the Moon Dogs.