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14 unusual facts about Rock music


Álvaro Benito

Álvaro Benito Villar (born 10 December 1976 in Salamanca, Castile and León) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a left midfielder, and the vocalist/guitarist of Rock band Pignoise.

Amor Artificial

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

And the Flying Boombox

And the Flying Boombox is the second album by Los Angeles rock band No More Kings.

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.

For the Broken

For the Broken is the debut album of American Rock band One Step Away.

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.

Kim:kyungho 1997

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

OurAfter

--Please do not add genres unless you can back them up with reliable sources.-->Rock

Pawn Ticket Trio

The group is self-categorized as playing "hack jazz", a style fused with rock structures and jazz stylings set to humorous lyrics and attention to solos.

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.

Sailcat

Sailcat was an American rock band that was signed with Elektra Records in the early 1970s and best known for the hit song "Motorcycle Mama".

Up the Empire

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

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.


21st Century Boogie

Paddy Milner's music shows many influences ranging from pop-rock through to jazz, classical and British folk.

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect is the second album by English rock band Laruso, released in May 2009 on Autonomy Recordings.

Ally Burnett

Ally Burnett is an American pop and rock singer/songwriter best known for song placements on MTV shows such as 'Jersey Shore' and her theme song for 'The Seven'.

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.

Aotea Square

Aotea Square was site of a major civil disturbance on 7 December 1984, during a free end-of-academic year rock concert given by bands including Herbs and DD Smash.

Apple to the Core

Apple to the Core: The Unmaking of the Beatles (ISBN 0671781723) is a rock music history book by Peter McCabe and Robert D. Schonfeld, published in New York by Pocket Books in 1972.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 - 1) is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 2

Beograd, uživo '97 – 2 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 – 2) is the second disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Beto Guedes

The Minas Gerais folk music tradition was the group's main influence, along with 60’s rock and Guedes’s influence from Choro.

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.

Cruel Melody

Cruel Melody is the debut album of American rock band Black Light Burns, released on June 5, 2007, through Ross Robinson's label I AM: WOLFPACK.

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.

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.

For 2000 AD

For 2000 AD is the fourth studio album from rock singer Kim Kyung Ho, released on Samsung Music in 1999.

Hamburg Records

Throughout the 2000s, the company included an artist management department, while the musically focus was on any kind of Rock, particularly on Punk.

Hidari

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

Holy Touch

"Holy Touch" is the second single from American rock band Foxy Shazam's fourth studio album, The Church of Rock and Roll.

Honey Barbara

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

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 Build This Garden for Us

"I Build This Garden for Us" is the second single by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz from his début album, Let Love Rule, and released in 1990 by Virgin Records America.

In the Spirit of Things

In the Spirit of Things is the 11th studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music).

Jimmy Page discography

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

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.

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.

Les Massiliades

Multiple musical genres were represented, including rock, rap, reggae, afrobeat, metal, folk, java and what the headline band Les Hurlements d'Léo calls "caravaning".

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.

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.

Reality Serum

'Trans-urban' is a new genre which is a unique blend of Alternative Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock music... fans of Gary Numan, Cake, Tricky, Linkin Park, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Meat Beat Manifesto, Crazy Town, Monster Magnet, etc., will definitely be intrigued.

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.

Rock TV

Rock TV is an Italian Music TV channel based in Milan, Italy, devoted to Rock, Alternative rock, Heavy metal, Punk rock launched in Italy on SKY Italia channel 718 in 2001.

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).

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.

Stay with Me Bright Eyes

"Stay with My Bright Eyes" is a song by Australian band Something with Numbers; it was the first single from their third studio album Engineering the Soul.

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.

Tenleytown

Fort Reno also hosts community gardens, free rock concerts in the summer, sledding in the winter, and tennis courts, playing fields, and dog-walkers year round.

Terry Woods

He is known for his membership in such folk and folk-rock groups as The Pogues, Steeleye Span, Sweeney's Men, The Bucks and, briefly, Dr. Strangely Strange and Dublin rock band Orphanage, with Phil Lynott, as well as in a duo/band with his then wife, Gay, billed initially as The Woods Band and later as Gay and Terry Woods.

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.

The Whole World's Goin' Crazy

The Whole World's Goin' Crazy is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band April Wine, released in September 1976 (See 1976 in music).

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".