Dorothy are a Los Angeles hard rock band fronted by vocalist and songwriter Dorothy Martin, whose voice gives the project its mix of grit, soul, and arena-sized force. Emerging in the mid-2010s, the band drew attention with a self-titled EP and the full-length ROCKISDEAD, which framed Martin's vocals inside bluesy riffs, swaggering rhythms, and modern rock production. 28 Days in the Valley, Gifts from the Holy Ghost, and later work broadened the emotional range, adding gospel, Southern rock, spiritual themes, and a stronger sense of personal recovery without abandoning the heavy guitar foundation. Dorothy fit hard-rock scope through blues rock riffing, big vocals, and a touring presence connected to contemporary mainstream rock and metal audiences. The songs are built around impact: stomps, claps, riffs, and choruses that leave room for Martin to push from smoky restraint to full-throated release. What separates Dorothy from simple retro rock is the emotional center. The music can be glamorous and polished, but it is strongest when faith, survival, heartbreak, and defiance all move through the same loud, blues-rooted frame.

Eagles of Death Metal is the garage rock brainchild of Jesse Hughes and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, formed in Palm Desert, California in 1998. Despite the misleading name, the band plays loose, swaggering blues-punk that owes more to the Rolling Stones and MC5 than to any metal tradition. Their catalog of feel-good, riff-driven rock and roll, including 'Peace Love Death Metal' and 'Heart On,' is built for dancing rather than headbanging, powered by Hughes' irreverent charisma.

Great White are a Los Angeles hard rock band whose best-known work brought bluesy swagger into the glam metal era without losing a bar-band sense of grit. Formed in 1977 around guitarist Mark Kendall and vocalist Jack Russell, the group moved through local club years before breaking nationally with Once Bitten and ...Twice Shy. Songs such as "Rock Me," "Save Your Love," "The Angel Song," and the Ian Hunter cover "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" made the band a major presence on late-1980s rock radio and MTV. Great White's music is less theatrical than some Sunset Strip peers, leaning instead on slide-touched guitar phrasing, hard-swinging rhythms, and Russell's raspy, blues-informed vocal style. The band fits hard rock and metal-adjacent scope through a catalog rooted in heavy guitars, arena choruses, and glam-era production, but their personality often comes from older blues rock instincts. Their history also carries tragedy and complicated lineup splits, yet the core musical identity remains clear. At their strongest, Great White sounded like a club-tested rock band scaled up for arenas, built around riffs, smoke, and a singer who could make polished songs feel weathered.

Rival Sons are a hard rock and blues-influenced band from Long Beach, California, formed in 2009 around vocalist Jay Buchanan and guitarist Scott Holiday, drawing widely from 1970s classic rock precedents including Led Zeppelin and Free. The band earned Grammy nominations for their 2019 album Feral Roots and scored a Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one with its single 'Do Your Worst,' placing them among the most commercially successful acts in the contemporary hard rock revival.