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20 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.

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.

Andrew Bartlett

He played in a number of local rock bands around this time, as a drummer and keyboard player.

Atomic Tangerine

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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.

For the Broken

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

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.

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.

HNŠK Moslavina

The core of the fan base is usually associated with the rock, punk and metal subculture.

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.

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.

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.

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


98.4 Capital FM

The presenters are large, engaging personalities who play a mixture of Hip Hop, RnB, Rock, Neo Soul, New Jack Swing, World Music, Jazz, Techno and Dance music, transcending gender, all age groups, backgrounds and cultural boundaries (see the Show Schedule below.) Capital FM was the first ever Kenyan station to play Rock music- and has continuously been dubbed- the home and only home of the best rock music.

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.

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.

All the Rockers

All the Rockers is a compilation album by the rock band April Wine.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Canción Animal

Canción Animal (Spanish for Animal Song) is the fifth album released by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, released in December, 1990 (see 1990 in music).

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.

Cradle of Love

"Cradle of Love" is a rock song written by Billy Idol and David Werner for Idol's 1990 fourth studio album Charmed Life.

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.

Dosage Tour 2012

The Dosage Tour 2012 was a concert tour by the American rock band Collective Soul.

Guitar, Bass and Drums

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

Halfdan E

After stints as a session bass player in many different rock bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a degree from the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Halfdan E collaborated with Danish poet Dan Turèll on the crossover project "Pas På Pengene", resulting in two CD recordings, which both won Danish Grammy awards.

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".

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.

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.

Little Black Submarines

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

Live 06

The Keane Live 06 were a series of official limited live albums produced by ConcertLive consisting of songs recorded during English rock band Keane's live performances during late October 2006, contained in the Under the Iron Sea Tour.

Miss Jackson

"Miss Jackson" is a song by the American rock band Panic! at the Disco, released on July 15, 2013 as the lead single for the band's fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013).

My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue

My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue is the first EP by American rock band Fall Out Boy.

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).

Provogue Records

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

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.

Retrospective I

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

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".

Shrinky Dinks

In 1992, the California rock band Sugar Ray formed with the name "Shrinky Dinx", but later changed it upon threat of lawsuit from Milton Bradley.

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.

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.

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.

The Good Will Out

The Good Will Out is the debut album by English rock band Embrace, first released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

The Rocky Fellers

Stanley Kahn discovered The Rocky Fellers, a pop/rock band in the 1960s, and signed them to Scepter Records.

Us Against the Crown

Us Against the Crown is the first full-length LP from reggae-rock band State Radio, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist, Chad Urmston.

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".

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.