[5] Bands that stood out in the first wave of Israeli rock were Yarkon Bridge Trio, The Churchills,[6] The High Windows, The Lions (aka The Lions of Juda), The Styles (aka Uzi and the Styles), The Fat and the Thins, The Blue Stars, The Goldstars, The New Stars, The Generals, The Monks, The Spiders, The Electric Stage, The Seventh Radiance, and The Sing-Sing.

In the euphoria that followed the Six-Day War, the performing groups of the Israel Defense Forces rose in status with a steady stream of songs about victory, bereavement and loss.

The first was The Churchills, which consisted of five musicians including Canadian singer Stan Solomon, and British guitarist Robb Huxley.

The band's varied style was derived from British pop and American soul music and was characterized by the compound-rich processings of wind instruments that resembled Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago, etc.

By 1969, Arik Einstein had taken The Churchills under his wing as a backup band, and with their help he would record the groundbreaking album "Poozy", which is often considered the mainstream breakthrough of the genre.

The entrance of some artists and bands that were formed in the 80s, like the famous duo of Rami Fortis and Berry Sakharof, Mashina, Korin Allal, Meir Banai and others into the Israeli mainstream, inspired many young rock artists such as Aviv Geffen, Inbal Perlmuter, Yermi Kaplan, Assaf Amdursky, and others, and just in the years of 1990-1994 an uncountable number of young rock bands were formed.

Bands such as Eifo HaYeled, Monica Sex, HaYehudim, [8] The Elders of Zfat, Rockfour, The Friends of Natasha, Dr. Kasper's Rabbits Show, HaMehashefot (The Witches), Tractor’s Revenge, Nosei Hamigbaat, Cermella Gross & Wagner, Knesiyat Hasechel, Ra’ash, Taarovet Eskot, Avtipus, and Noar Shulaim, were just the most noticeable bands of this period.

Stella Maris later integrated in the mainstream Israeli music scene and its vocalist, Pavlo Rosenberg, launched a solo career of his own.

Then the nationally traumatic murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November that year, is largely considered to have shifted the whole cultural atmosphere of the country, and the prominence and success of the "kicking" rock of the early 1990s was replaced by more mellow directions.

Among the other successful emerging Israeli rock bands and artists of this decade were Girafot, Sheygets, Habiluim, Yoni Bloch, Hadag Nahash, Shy Nobleman, Vaadat Charigim and many more.