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13 unusual facts about Rock music


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.

Brixton, Gauteng

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

For the Broken

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

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.

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".

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.

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.

Where the Devil Don't Stay

"Where the Devil Don't Stay" is a song written and recorded by the rock and alt-country group Drive-By Truckers, and released on their 2004 album, The Dirty South.


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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club discography

This is discography of the American rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Holy Touch

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

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 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".

Lisa Loeb discography

The following is a detailed discography for American rock music singer-songwriter, Lisa Loeb.

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.

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.

Millionaires and Teddy Bears

Millionaires and Teddy Bears is a studio LP by the rock artist Kevin Coyne which was released in 1979.

Pillow Talk 101

Hopes & Dreams is the first EP by Georgia based rock band Faster Faster, sold at local shows and digitally in the US on April 21, 2006.

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.

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).

Ryszard Riedel

Ryszard Henryk Riedel (September 7, 1956 in Chorzów - July 30, 1994 in Chorzów) – was the original lead singer of blues-rock band Dżem (Polish for 'jam').

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.

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.

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.

Stilelibero

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

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 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 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.

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'".