Melissa Etheridge

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee also tells UCR about jamming with Chuck Berry and playing "Thunder Road" with Bruce Springsteen.

Kiss star can't relate to their music, adding: "I don't come from the ghetto."

Here's who should get in, and who we think will actually get the nods.

More than half of the 17 artists have been nominated for the first time.

They had solid radio airplay in the '90s, but you don't hear them that often these days. How many of these 1995 rock radio hits do you remember?