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Sai Yok District

Sai Yok was mention in song "Mon Sai Yok" (มนต์ไทรโยค - Magic Of Sai Yok) By The Famous Thai Pop rock Band "The Innocent" from an album "Yu Hor" (อยู่หอ - Stay Dorm) in 1982.


12th Annual Honda Civic Tour

The 12th Annual Honda Civic Tour was a concert tour headlined by the American pop rock band Maroon 5, alongside special guest, American pop rock singer Kelly Clarkson.

Ab Khud Kuch Karna Paray Ga

Ab Khud Kuch Karna Paray Ga (Urdu: اب خود کچھ کرنا پڑے گا, literal English translation: "Now we have to do something ourselves") is a single from the Pakistani pop rock band Strings featuring former Jal vocalist Atif Aslam, released on July 16, 2010 by 2 Republic Music Group.

Asia no Junshin

"Asia no Junshin(Japanese:アジアの純真, Lit."Asia's Innocence")" is a song recorded by the Japanese pop rock duo Puffy, released in May 1996 as their debut single.

Automatisch

"Automatisch" and "Automatic" are the first singles from German pop rock band Tokio Hotel's third German studio album and second English studio album Humanoid.

Away from Here

Away From Here is the second studio album from the pop rock band Sirsy, and was released March 30, 2002.

Break You

"Break You" is a pop rock song written and produced by the combined efforts of Max Martin and Lukasz Gottwald, a.k.a. "Dr. Luke", for Raven's international debut studio album Here I Am (2005).

Coz I Can

"Cuz I Can" is the debut single by the Swedish Pop/rock singer Ana Johnsson (as Ana) released from her (officially) first studio album Cuz I Can.

Dead End Countdown

"Dead End Countdown" is the debut single by Canadian pop rock band The New Cities from their debut album, Lost in City Lights.

Drowners

The name of band is a reference to the Suede debut single The Drowners while their style has been referred to as a revival of UK’s pop rock.

Freebola

Freebola, also known as Chica Light, is a pop rock song by Chilean rock band Glup! featured in their debut album 1999 of 1999.

Hotel New York

Hotel New York is a studio album recorded by the Dutch pop/rock singer Anouk and released on December 3, 2004 in the Netherlands (See 2004 in music).

I Am Not My Hair

According to Arie, the original version of "I Am Not My Hair" was a duet with pop rock singer Pink.

Kostas Martakis

The pop rock version of the song was originally supposed to be performed at the National Final, but the dance version was chosen instead by Martakis and his label.

Ladri di Carrozzelle

Ladri di Carrozzelle ("Wheelchair Thieves" as the name is a play on the film Bicycle Thieves) is an Italian Pop rock group that formed due to a summer event in 1989 for the Union for the Fight Against Muscular Dystrophy.

Lass uns laufen

"Lass Uns Laufen" (lit. "Let's Run") and "World Behind My Wall" are the second singles from German pop rock band Tokio Hotel's third German studio album and second English studio album Humanoid.

Live for Love

"Live for Love" is a pop rock ballad by Anthony Callea from his second album A New Chapter (2006), and the first single released from the album.

Love Is on the Radio

"Love is on the Radio" is a song by English pop rock band McFly, released on 24 November 2013 as the lead single from their upcoming sixth album.

Mess of You

"Mess of You" is a pop rock song written by Alana Grace and Michael Ochs for Grace's second studio album With One Word (2009).

So Do I Say Sorry First?

"So Do I Say Sorry First?" is a pop rock song written by Klaus Derendorf, Stephanie McIntosh and Tom Nichols, produced by Derendorf and Nichols for McIntosh's debut album Tightrope.

Somewhere Down the Barrel

"Somewhere Down the Barrel" is the debut single by Australian pop rock band The Dissociatives, from their album of the same name, released in 2004.

Spring nicht

"Spring nicht'" and "Don't Jump" are songs by German pop rock band Tokio Hotel.

Spymob

Spymob is a pop rock band, from Minneapolis best known for their appearance on the 2003 Star Trak Entertainment compilation The Neptunes present Clones, with the song "Half Steering Half Eating Ice Cream."

Step Up to the Microphone

Step Up to the Microphone is the seventh studio album by Christian pop rock band Newsboys, released in 1998.

The Goodnight

The Goodnight (formerly Goodnight Sunrise) is an American pop rock band formed November 2006 in Helena, Montana while members were attending high school.

The Voice Brasil

On June 5, 2012, Rede Globo officially confirmed the four coaches for the first season: Brazilian axé singer Claudia Leitte, pop rock singer-songwriter Lulu Santos, Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and instrumentist Carlinhos Brown, and sertanejo singer Daniel.

Tum Kaho

Tum Kaho (literal English translation: If You Say So) is a Pop Rock song by the band SYMT.

Voice of the Beehive

Voice of the Beehive was an Anglo-American alternative pop rock band formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer, Bruce Belland.

Wait for Night

Stylistically, the album represented a move away from his early 70s light rock sound to the trademark arena-ready power pop/pop rock sound that Springfield would later find success with over the 80s.


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15092 Beegees

The members of the British pop-rock-disco group Bee Gees: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb and their younger brother, singer Andy Gibb that was never a member of the group, were raised in Australia only 100 km from the discovery site of this minor planet.

Above the Noise Tour

The "Above The Noise Tour" is the first worldwide stadium tour undertaken by British pop-rock band McFly, almost seven and a half years into their career.

Att vara Per Gessle

Att vara Per Gessle (ISBN 91-0-011200-3) – (Being Per Gessle) is a book, written by Swedish journalist Sven Lindström about Swedish pop-rock singer/songwriter and Roxette co-founder Per Gessle in 2007.

Brice Conrad

Brice Conrad (born in Pfulgriesheim, France 18 July 1985) is a French singer-songwriter and musician of pop rock and folk music and is signed to Universal Music France.

Buchanan Brothers

They are not to be confused with the pop-rock trio by that name from the late 1960s, which included Terry Cashman, Gene Pistilli, and Tommy West.

BZN

BZN started out as a pop-rock band in their native Volendam in 1966, playing early-Bee Gees-like harmony pop.

Carli Muñoz

His latest release is a CD in the pop rock genre and the title is In My Soul, in memory of Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson, released in February 2013.

Daniel Kelaart

Daniel is the frontman of the pop rock band Remission Theory, however has also launched a career as an independent record producer where he has produced, engineered, mixed or written tracks for various bands such as For Our Hero, The Paperkites, Simple Plan, Antiskeptic, Declan Sykes, Michael Paynter, Have You Seen This Boy, Hometown, Dylan Joel, and Delamare.

Dewa Budjana

Slowly, his musical style changed from pop rock to jazz, as he started to incorporate influences from John McLaughlin of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea, Yes, Gentle Giant, Kansas, Tangerine Dream, American Garage, Bright Size Life, Pat Metheny and Allan Holdsworth.

Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive

Heckle and Mr. Jive is the seventh album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Ectoslavia

The music of Ectoslavia used a great deal of noise and static underneath melodic pop-rock songs, not unlike early Pavement EPs like Perfect Sound Forever and Slay Tracks (1933-1969).

Ertuğ

Ertuğ Ergin, a Turkish alternative pop-rock singer/song-writer

Gil Dobrică

He is most famous for his 1979 cover version of John Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" or simply "Country Roads" (adapted as "Hai acasă" - "Let's go home"), although he had performed a variety of musical genres (pop, rock, blues, soul, jazz, country) and performed several covers of artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Little Richard, Otis Redding and Bill Monroe.

Glay discography

The discography of Japanese pop rock band Glay consists of ten studio albums, forty-two unique singles, twenty-seven video albums, and sixty-four songs associated with various promotions.

Jackalope

Jakalope is a Canadian alternative pop/rock group formed in 2003 by industrial musician and producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie.

Jarkko Ruutu

Ruutu's cousin, Raul Ruutu, plays bass in a Finnish pop rock band Sunrise Avenue.

Kalokairino Randevou me ton Saki Tour

The Kalokairino Randevou me ton Saki tour (Greek: Καλοκαιρινό Ραντεβού με τον Σάκη; English: Summer Fling with Sakis) was a small-scale Greek and Cypriot tour performed by Greek pop-rock musician Sakis Rouvas following his large-scale North American & Australian Tour with Antonis Remos.

Killerpilze

The Killerpilze (English/German for "Killer Mushrooms") is a German Pop-rock / pop-punk band from Dillingen an der Donau, Germany.

La dicha en movimiento

La dicha en movimiento is the first album by Argentine pop rock band Los Twist, released in 1983.

Mere Christianity

A passage in the book also influenced the name of contemporary Christian Texan Grammy-nominated pop/rock group Sixpence None the Richer.

My Forever

My Forever are an English pop/rock band based in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

N.E.P.

In 2012 and 2013 it took part in the biggest Russian open-air rock festival Nashestvie run by the nation-wide pop rock Nashe Radio.

Natalia Lafourcade

When she was 17, Loris Ceroni gave Natalia the opportunity to be in a pop/rock group under his guidance, but when she wasn't sure, he encouraged her to go solo.

Nights Are Forever

Nights Are Forever is the fourth and breakthrough album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Nothing in My Way

After the French pop-rock band Bubblies, the single's release is notable as being the first ever commercial music release in USB format, a special edition limited to 1,500 copies.

Oleksij Kerekesha

Influenced by Western pop rock music, particularly groups like Pink Floyd, he began composing at an early age, combining Ukrainian lyricism with modern musical influences.

ONAR

They have collaborated with some of the most important representatives of the Greek pop-rock scene such as: Filippos Pliatsikas, Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Dionysis Tsaknis, Socrates Drank the Conium, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Sakis Boulas, and Lakis Papadopoulos.

P3 Guld

P3 Guld is arranged since 2003 annually and is awarded by the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio P3 to Swedish artists in pop, rock, hip hop and the like.

Paleka

Paleka has performed and recorded with the country's most respected pop, rock, and jazz musicians, including Sérgio Godinho, Jorge Palma, Mário Laginha, António Pinho Vargas, and Rui Veloso.

Pete McCracken

He has been a member of indie band The Plums (1992–1995), pop-rock band Deadstar (1997–2001) and country-tinged duo The Tulips (2002–2006).

In 1997 McCracken joined Melbourne pop-rock band, Deadstar, replacing previous bass guitarist Nick Seymour.

Peter Theobalds

He was originally guitarist for a multitude of underground bands including Xerox Girls (pop punk - 1992), Photographing Girls (psychedelic pop/rock - 1992-4), Three Days By Camel (Instrumental/experimental 1993-4), Salem Orchid (death/black/psychedelic metal 1994 - precursor to Akercocke) and eventually turned bassist with indie rock band Fosca and latterly British progressive death metal band Akercocke from 1997-2007 with whom he recorded four full length studio albums.

Sami Saari

Saari has often been labelled as the "King of Finnish Soul", but he has also worked with pop, rock and rap musicians such as Anna Puu, Elastinen, Jonna Tervomaa and Cheek.

Sarajevo school of pop rock

The Sarajevo school of pop rock collectively refers to the popular music created between 1960 and 1991 by artists and bands native to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia).

Sensurround

The alternative pop/rock band They Might Be Giants released a song entitled "Sensurround" that was incorporated in the soundtrack to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and (in a different, faster-paced recording) their EP S-E-X-X-Y.

Shanti Wintergate

"This Moment" was a spark of an album with catchy 3-4 chord pop/rock tunes that caught the attention of famed Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman and let to performances on 2006/2008 Vans Warped Tours.

Starker

Träume sind stärker ("Dreams are stronger"), a pop/rock album by the Austrian band Schürzenjäger

Sziget

Sziget Festival, an international annual pop/rock festival organised on Hajógyári-sziget (Shipyard Island), Óbuda, Budapest

The BossHoss

The BossHoss is a band from Berlin which started in 2004 with Country & Western style cover versions of famous pop, rock and hip hop songs, for example "Hot in Herre" by Nelly, "Toxic" by Britney Spears and "Hey Ya!" by Outkast.

The Shock of the Lightning

Noel said of the song on Shaun Keaveny's Radio 6 show, "It's a driving, pumping, pop, rock 'n' roll masterpiece".

The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP

The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP is an EP by the Australian pop rock duo The Veronicas.

The Wall Street Shuffle

"The Wall Street Shuffle" is a single by the British pop/rock band 10cc released in 1974.

The Words You Don't Swallow

The Words You Don't Swallow is the first full length studio album by American pop rock band Anarbor.

Van Atta High

Some of their most well-known songs include "Call Me Jersey," "Birthday Girl," and their pop rock cover to the Starland Vocal Band 70's hit "Afternoon Delight" (contracted with S1 Songs, a music publishing company).

Veden varaan

Veden varaan is a pop-rock album from the Finnish group PMMP.

WUFM

WUFM primarily plays alternative Christian music across several genres, with the most played including pop-rock, hard rock, punk, and hip-hop, as well as occasional emo, electronica/dance, and hardcore/metal.