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17 unusual facts about rock Music


Alpha Male Gorillas

AMG presents listeners with an inflection of multiple styles, traversing through areas of rock, blues, hip hop and reggae, with elements of psychedelic.

Atomic Tangerine

-- Please do not change this to "are". This articles uses American English as the subject is an American band. --> an American rock band.

Brixton, Gauteng

The popular Afrikaans rock-band Brixton Moord en Roof Orkes ("Brixton Murder and Robbery Band") is named after this squad.

Esperando el milagro

Esperando el milagro is the ninth album by Argentine rock band Las Pelotas.

Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades

Combining various influences from swing music, ska, rockabilly music and rock Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades attracted a local following throughout the Southwest of The United States.

Honey Barbara

Honey Barbara is an American rock band from San Antonio, Texas.

Kim:kyungho 1997

Kim:Kyungho 1997 is the second studio album from rock singer Kim Kyung Ho, released on Samsung Music in 1997.

Kottak

Kottak, formerly known as KrunK, is a pop punk/rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1996 by James Kottak aka Jimmy Ratchitt, drummer for the hard rock band Scorpions and his ex-wife Athena Lee.

Mirk

Their music has been characterized as a cross between the genres of pop, soul, rock, R&B, and hip-hop.

Nobody's Fools

Nobody's Fools is the fifth studio album by the British rock group Slade.

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Pork Tornado

The band played a number of country-western and rock originals as well as a number of standard covers.

Provogue Records

The label, originally founded by Ed Van Zijl in 1990, mostly specializes in guitar loaded Rock and Blues music releases.

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in 1973, was the seventh album and sixth studio album by English rock band Traffic.

Up the Empire

Up The Empire is a Rock band from Brooklyn, NY.

Vanderveen

Vanderveen is a rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, founded in 2003 by songwriters Matt Thomas and Phil Bockstael.

Yiewsley

Ronnie Wood, guitarist in rock bands the Rolling Stones and The Faces, grew up in Yiewsley, attending St Stephen's Primary School and St Matthew's Church of England Secondary School


Abingdon Boys School discography

The discography of Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School includes two studio albums, eight singles, three video albums, one compilation album, eight soundtracks, and seven other appearances in releases not under its name.

American Idiot World Tour

The American Idiot World Tour was a concert tour by American Rock band Green Day in support of the group's seventh studio album, American Idiot, which was released in September 2004.

Amor Artificial

Amor Artificial (English: Artificial Love) is the 6th studio album made by Costa Rican rock band, "Evolución".

Bayou Country

Bayou Country is the second studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in January 1969, and was the first of three albums CCR released in that year (see 1969 in music).

Billy Rich

As a session musician, Rich has gotten the chance to play different styles of music, including Reggae, Blues, Country Western, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Samba, Pop and Bluegrass.

But What Will the Neighbors Think

The song "Queen of Hearts" was first recorded in 1979 by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds for his album Repeat When Necessary.

Corpse paint

The earliest rock groups to don makeup similar to corpse paint included Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Arthur Brown in the 1960s, Secos & Molhados, Alice Cooper and Kiss in the 1970s and, later that decade, punk rockers like The Misfits and singer David Vanian of The Damned.

Dario Buccino

His musical activity ranges over a wide variety of fields: beside his research as experimental composer and performer, Buccino also works for the cinema and the theatre as a composer, interpreter, musical consultant, as a rock, pop and jazz composer, arranger and guitarist, and as a singer-songwriter, busker and music journalist.

Dave Marsh

He was a formative editor of Creem magazine, has written for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and has published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on rock music.

Dave Tweedie

Living in the small, working-middle class town of Crockett, California, Dave Tweedie grew up with Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of the rock band Green Day, as well as Scott Holderby of pioneering heavy funk metal band Mordred.

Did My Time

"Did My Time" is a song written and recorded by American rock band Korn for the film, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.

Find a New Way

"Find a New Way" is the second single from Too Young to Fight It the debut full-length album by American dance-rock band Young Love.

Fischer-Z

Fischer-Z (pronounced as a homonym of "fisher's head") were a British rock band formed in 1976 by John Watts and Steve Skolnik at Brunel University.

Guitar, Bass and Drums

"Guitar, Bass and Drums" is a series of three EPs by the British rock singer, Toby Jepson.

Hidari

Hidari (ヒダリ) is a rock band from Kobe, Japan, known for its combination of modern rock and retro electronic sounds.

Hope This Finds You Well

This version of "Say It Ain't So" was recorded with Carabba for the compilation Rock Music: A Tribute to Weezer and was previously included as a bonus track on the vinyl LP version of The Moon is Down.

I'm in Love with a German Film Star

The American rock band Foo Fighters covered "I'm in Love with a German Film Star" as the B-side to their 2005 single "Best of You".

Jan Thore Grefstad

Jan Thore Grefstad (born January 30, 1978 in Tromsø, Norway) is a Norwegian rock singer, best known from heavy metal bands Highland Glory and Wild Willy's Gang.

Jim Bonfanti

James Alexander Bonfanti (born December 17, 1948 in Windber, Pennsylvania) is a rock drummer, best known as a member of the band Raspberries.

Jimmy Page discography

Jimmy Page is a British rock musician, best known as the guitarist and producer for English rock band Led Zeppelin.

Karnataka College of Percussion

The college features a percussion ensemble called Tala Tarangini, which has performed throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia, and which has collaborated with numerous jazz rock musicians, including Charlie Mariano, Okay Temiz, Iain Ballamy, Dissidenten, and Embryo.

King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas

King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas is the third live album from American rock band Kansas, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II

Songs from Johnson's first album had been covered by popular rock artists in the late sixties, including Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin, who based their "Lemon Song" partly on "Traveling Riverside Blues." The Rolling Stones placed a version of "Love In Vain" on their 1969 landmark Let It Bleed before it had been released on LP, having heard the song on a bootleg recording circulating at the time.

Lewis Shiner

Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s; for example, Shiner's 1993 novel Glimpses considers the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.

Little Black Submarines

"Little Black Submarines" is a song by American rock band The Black Keys.

Living with the Living

Living with the Living is the fifth album by the Washington, D.C. rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, released in 2007 by Touch and Go Records.

Panzerballett

Panzerballett plays both original compositions by guitarist Zehrfeld and his creative arrangements of popular songs from rock ("Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple), to pop ("Ein Bisschen Frieden" by Nicole), to jazz ("Birdland" by Weather Report) to soundtrack (as the title theme The Simpsons).

Pigmy Love Circus

Pigmy Love Circus is a Los Angeles rock band that has existed since the mid 1980s era of the Hollywood underground rock scene.

Reg Isidore

Reg Isidore (4 April 1949 – 22 March 2009) was a rock drummer best known for his work with Robin Trower.

Retrospective I

Retrospective I: 1974 to 1980 is a compilation album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music).

Richard Hell and the Voidoids

--Lead section, as per WIKI:MOS, is supposed to aim for generality. Specific subgenre and style are to follow afterward-->rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

Sailing on the Seven Seas

The song pays homage to two rock groups: firstly to The Velvet Underground, with the song "Sister Ray" being directly referenced (OMD had previously covered "I'm Waiting for the Man" as a B-side to 1980 single "Messages"); and secondly to The Who, with the line "people try to drag us down" being near-identical in melody and lyrical content to the opening line of "My Generation".

Since We Last Spoke

This album's tracks moved away from RJD2's previous offering, Deadringer, and toward much more Rock music-influenced sounds.

Sing for Absolution

"Sing for Absolution" is a song by English rock band Muse, serving as the title track for their third studio album, Absolution.

So Young, So Insane

So Young, So Insane is the second EP by You, Me, and Everyone We Know, a rock band from Washington, D.C. The six-track record was released independently on November 18, 2008.

Stereo Rodeo

Stereo Rodeo is the sixth studio album by the American bluegrass rock band Rusted Root.

Steve Zodiac

Steve Zodiac (pseudonym adopted from the lead character of Fireball XL5) is a rock guitarist and prolific songwriter, who gained recognition in the early 1980s as frontman of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal band Vardis.

Stilelibero

Stilelibero (Freestyle) is the eighth studio album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, released in 2000 on the BMG label.

Talent Party

Talent Party was a Southern teen dance TV program that aired between 1964 and 1973 featuring many of the popular artists in Rhythm and blues, rock and pop music of the day.

The Day I Went Mad

The Day I Went Mad is the sixth solo album by English rock singer Graham Bonnet, originally released in 1999.

The Essential Byrds

The Essential Byrds is a comprehensive two-CD compilation album released by the American rock band The Byrds in 2003 as part of Sony BMG's The Essential series.

Vladimir Mulyavin

After his discharge from the army returned to the Belarusian State Philharmony and in 1968, he created the folk pop and rock group "Liavony".

W250BC

At exactly Noon on the 17th, the station began airing its new format as "Journey 97-9", with a three-minute introduction, and a short promo by Randy Jackson, former bass player for 1980s rock band Journey, followed by their song "Don't Stop Believin'".

Wagram Music

It has a catalog in various music genres such as French Pop, Rock and Hard rock, Pop, World, electronic music, Reggae, Soul, Jazz and Blues.

Wayne Fontana

Wayne Fontana (born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, 28 October 1945) is an English rock/pop singer, best known for the 1965 hit "Game of Love" with The Mindbenders.

What Is and What Should Never Be

"What Is and What Should Never Be" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II.