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Sep 13, 2024 · Rock and roll, style of popular music that originated in the United States in the mid-1950s and that evolved by the mid-1960s into the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known as rock and roll.
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2 days ago · From the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres have since emerged, including pop-punk, electronic rock, rap rock, and rap metal.
1 day ago · Known for a blend—or portfolio—of pop, country, easy listening and early-days rock and roll, Phil and Don are more so famed for their vocal harmonies, which were a big influence on the Avocado Mafia set playing the Troubadour in the early ‘70s.
Sep 13, 2024 · alternative rock, pop music style, built on distorted guitars and rooted in generational discontent, that dominated and changed rock between 1991 and 1996. It burst into the mainstream when “ Smells Like Teen Spirit ”—the first major-label single from Nirvana, a trio based in Seattle, Washington, U.S.—became a national hit.
Sep 11, 2024 · The Beatles were a British musical quartet of enduring popularity that dominated rock and roll music in the 1960s. The band’s immortal hit songs include ‘Please Please Me,’ ‘Help!,’ ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Yellow Submarine,’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,’ ‘Hey Jude,’ and ‘Let It Be.’
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1 day ago · In short, Jimmy Page was in the process of creating a monster; a monster that was to become known the world over as Led Zeppelin. In their heyday, The Yardbirds had been one of the most sought-after and innovative bands to have emerged from the UK’s all-pervasive, early 60s R&B boom.
4 days ago · Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music [9] that primarily developed in the United Kingdom [1] through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
