Mercury Rev released their best album. Coming from USA,three rock bands show up, mainly influenced by the 70 's becoming really promising: the White Stripes with their third release and the Strokes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with their debut albums. The future would turn out to be brilliant for Jack and Meg White's band, reviving the plain rock sound based on guitars and drums, but we can hardly say the same for the other two groups.
Radiohead release the very good sequel of Kid A and Damon Albarn introduces to us the comic - band , the Gorillaz . Pulp , New Order and Tricky return, while Starsailor generate a relative hype in Britain. As far as electro is involved, the Australian Avalanches , and The altogether by Orbital stood out in 2001. We also became acquainted with the electronic version of tango by French - Argentine Gotan Project.
In our country, Raining Pleasure from Patras release their third and perhaps best album, and become famous, raising contradictions when lending two of their songs in advertising spots, but opening new ways for Greek bands.
The following are played everywhere: Family affair, Something Stupid, Survivor, Turn off the light, Getting away with it, Another change, Hide you, Before you leave, Can't get you out of my head and We come one.
ALBUMS
1. MERCURY REV - All is dream
2. STROKES - Is this it
3. WHITE STRIPES - White blood cells
4. RADIOHEAD - Amnesiac
5. GORILLAZ - Gorillaz
6. RAINING PLEASURE - Flood
7. TRICKY - Blowback
8. STARSAILOR - Love is here 
9. AVALANCHES - Since I left you
10. ORBITAL - The altogether
11. PULP - We love life
12. BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - To my rock 'n' roll
13. ARAB STRAP - The red thread
14. NEW ORDER - Get ready
15. GOTAN PROJECT - The revencha
SINGLES
1. Alcoholic - STARSAILOR
2. Funny break - ORBITAL
3. Knives out - RADIOHEAD
4. Capricorn - RAINING PLEASURE 
5. Hotel yorba-WHITE STRIPES
6. Getting away with it - JAMES
7. Since I left you - AVALANCHES
8. Fear - IAN BROWN
9. The dark is rising - MERCURY REV
10. Whatever happened to my rock 'n' roll - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
11. Ocean Spray - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
12. Nothing really ends - DEUS
13. Crystal-NEW ORDER
14. Last nite - STROKES
15. Tomorrow comes today - GORILAZ
16. Nite and fog - MERCURY REV
17. Soul vibration - JAYWALK
18. Emerge - FISCERSPOONER 
19. Stop your crying - SPIRITUALIZED
20. Piano fire - SPARKLEHORSE
21. Playgirl - LADYTRON
22. Love is the key – CHARLATANS
23. I’m waking up to us – BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
24. Free love –DEPECHE MODE
25. Banana queen – ZITA SWOON
LIVE
1. James at Lycabettus
2. P.J. Harvey at the Olympic Stadium
3. Placebo at the Olympic Stadium
4. Manu Chao at Theatro Vrahon
5. Saint Germain at the School of Fine Arts
6. Tricky at Gazi
7. Calexico at Gazi
8. Elbow in Lavrio
9. Orbital at Lycabettus
10. Stereo Mc's at Lycabettus
11. Robert Plant at the Olympic Stadium
12. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros at Sporting Stadium
13. Depeche Mode at the Olympic Stadium
FILMS
1. Amelie
2. Los amantes
3. La stanga
4. La pianiste
5. Reqviem for a dream
6. The man who wasn’t there
7. Τhe Ρrincess and the warrior
8. Memento
9. Ghost world
10. The others
Alcoholic - STARSAILOR
Funny Break - ORBITAL
Knives out - RADIOHEAD