Bond is awesome, especially "Explosive". It's like classical meets rock. Also, there's Antonio Pontarelli, who's a rock singer and plays the violin, and A Beautiful Day
This is from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin#Popular_music):
While the violin has had very little usage in rock music compared to its brethren the guitar and bass guitar, it is increasingly being absorbed into mainstream pop with artists like Linda Brava, Miri Ben-Ari, The Corrs, Nigel Kennedy, Yellowcard, Dave Matthews Band with Boyd Tinsley, Arcade Fire, Jean-Luc Ponty, the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Camper Van Beethoven, Nickel Creek and The Who (in the coda of their 1971 song Baba O'Riley). The Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship & Hot Tuna incorporated the electric rock violin stylings of Papa John Creach into their signature sound in the 1970s and 1980s. Independent artists such as Final Fantasy and Andrew Bird have also spurred increased interest in the instrument. It has also seen usage in the post-rock genre by bands like Sigur Rós, Zox, Broken Social Scene, A Silver Mt. Zion and the electric violin found in the Cruxshadows.
The hugely popular Motown recordings of the 1960s and '70s relied heavily on strings as part of their trademark texture. Earlier genres of pop music, at least those separate from the rock and roll movement, tended to make use of fairly traditional orchestras, sometimes large ones; examples include the American "Crooners" such as Bing Crosby.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s the violin (or "fiddle") was common in British folk-rock bands, such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.
Several 1970s progressive rock bands, such as King Crimson (the third line-up featuring John Wetton and David Cross), Comus, and Kansas featured violinists as full-fledged members of the band.
Up to the 1970s, most types of popular music used bowed strings, but the rise of electronically created music in the 1980s saw a decline in their use, as synthesized string sections took their place. Since the end of the 20th century, real strings have began making a comeback in pop music.
In the 1970s disco music often featured violins in a prominent role, in songs such as Good times by Chic, I will survive by Gloria Gaynor and Love's theme by Love Unlimited Orchestra.
Indian and Arabic pop music is filled with the sound of violins, both soloists and ensembles.
Some folk/Viking metal bands use the violin in their songs (i.e. Thyrfing), and some even have a permanent violinist (i.e. Ásmegin).
In the 1990s and 2000s, violins began to appear in rock bands. Smashing Pumpkins are well-known for their violin-based sections, and James' Saul Davies, who is also a guitarist, was enlisted by the band as a violinist.
One of the best-selling bands of the 1990s, the Corrs, relied heavily on the skills of violinist Sharon Corr. The violin was intimately integrated with the Irish tin whistle, the Irish hand drum (bodhran), as well as being used as intro and outro of many of their Celtic-flavored pop-rock songs.