David Shankbone · CC BY 3.0

A rock musician who started out in the New York hardcore scene with Heart Attack before fronting the glam-punk band D Generation, then reinvented himself as a solo singer-songwriter from 2000 onward. His catalogue includes Sunset Kids, produced by Lucinda Williams, and he has collaborated across genres with Bruce Springsteen, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, and Ryan Adams, moving comfortably between punk roots and roots-rock songwriting.