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unusual facts about Rock Sound



Gerry Owens

Owens wrote, arranged, recorded and co-produced the Skindive album and gained considerable exposure and success worldwide with the band, including rave reviews in publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Boston Globe and Rock Sound and the music being featured on the Grammy Awards 2002, MTV Movie Awards 2002 and MTV Road Rules.

Toilet circuit

Rock Sound TV has used the "Toilet Circuit" moniker to film a series of acoustic performances filmef in the grimiest locations at music venues across the UK, featuring bands like The Blackout, Thrice, Futures, Lights, Vessels and Deaf Havana.


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*shels

Vocalist Mehdi Safa said in an interview with Rock Sound, "The whole point of *shels is that it is very free, It is not really a band in the traditional sense, we can have people from other bands come in and play certain shows. It is set up to be a very free vehicle. There is a core of who is involved, but you can compare it to The John Williams Orchestra. It has a core but the line-up changes around that core".

Beatnik Turtle

Their sound is rooted in the song-based pop-rock sound of They Might Be Giants, Fountains of Wayne, The Saw Doctors, Barenaked Ladies, Cracker, Cake, and The Beatles.

Between Heaven 'n Hell

On REZ' follow-up to Hostage, the band jettisons much of the New Wave, keyboard-driven musical stylings from that album in favor of the band's traditional hard rock sound.

Brantley Gilbert

Settling into his country-rock sound, Gilbert followed his debut with the sophomore project, Halfway to Heaven, on March 16, 2010.

CHARLOTTE

They began working with veteran producer Marc DeSisto (Joe Cocker, Melissa Etheridge, U2, Pink Floyd) in creating a sound more reflective of the band's roots; the 1970s rock sound.

Eleuthera

The principal settlements are Governor's Harbour (the administrative capital), Rock Sound, Tarpum Bay, Harbour Island with its unusual pink sandy beaches and Spanish Wells.

Airports with regularly scheduled flights are available at North Eleuthera, Governor's Harbour and Rock Sound.

Gas 5

Roy Thomas Baker provided a big powerful "Led Zeppelin rock sound", while Wolfgang Käfer would provide the strings to the epic rock songs: "Rabalderstræde", "Fatherless Hill" and "Sct. Emitri".

Hopesfall

The band followed The Satellite Years with 2004's A Types, which had a more alternative rock sound and was a drastic stylistic departure from The Satellite Years — notably, Forrest's vocals were almost exclusively clean singing.

Mão Morta

Since the start of their career, the bands' live concerts became famous for their intensity and dark mood, due to their signature alternative rock sound and the performance of vocalist Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (a pseudonym, meaning Adolph Cannibal Lust), known for occasional onstage theatrics and his growling, half-sung, half-spoken singing style.

OK Bear

The album marks a return to a heavier rock sound of Sunny Day Real Estate.

Sov gott Rose-Marie

Pärson Sound's drone-based experimental rock sound, inspired by The Velvet Underground, Terry Riley and the Rolling Stones, was filtered through a more folky, nationalist inspired sound, in hopes to "create a more temporary kind of rhythmic music that could play the same role as traditional folk music."

The Appleseed Cast

The band's predominantly guitar-based music has evolved from intense, heavy emo indebted to such acts as Mineral and Sunny Day Real Estate to a unique "post-rock" sound hinging on inventive, intricate drumming, subtle guitar arpeggios, and a vast range of effects.

The Vulcan Dub Squad

This era saw the band take their sound from its very washy and ambient beginnings into more orchestrated pieces, relying on the whisper-to-a-scream methodology that was used by indie rockers like The Pixies and post-rock sound-sculptors such as Slint and Mogwai.

Tiny Pictures

Thornley describes his wish to achieve a vintage rock sound embellished with subtle hooks and "fairy dust, bells and whistles," similar to Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, where repeated listens reveal more and more enjoyment with new layers apparent each time.

Watch That Man

According to author Nicholas Pegg, "Watch That Man" could be taken as "one of Bowie’s most calculated changes of direction", to a more Stones-inspired dirty rock sound.

Your Mamma Won't Like Me

Released in 1975, the album marked a change in the hard rock sound from the singer's previous albums Suzi Quatro and Quatro, instead displaying a more funk oriented rock sound.