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| | Icelandic rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rock and roll is a style of popular American music which has spread across the world, including to the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland. | | | Also, the US Navy base in Keflavík, Iceland, operated a radio station for the troops (AFRS 1484 on the radio dial) that mainly played rock music and was very popular with young Icelanders in the Reykjavík area and remained important to Icelandic rock music until at least the mid 1970s. | | | A wave of punk rock based out of Reykjavík occurred in about 1981 and temporarily displaced more traditional rock music, much like rock had displaced jazz in the early 1960s. |
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| | Líbido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As a result of the success of its first album, the group began to play at Peru's premier venues; meanwhile, their music began to be noticed by diverse North American radio stations with Spanish rock programming, in specialized magazines, and on diverse music web sites. | | | This also involved their participation in a live Pre-Show for the VMALAs, which was the first performance by a Peruvian rock band to be broadcast live to all of North America. | | | Líbido is a Peruvian rock band formed in 1996. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libido_(band)
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| | Chapter & Verse Article |
| | That influence of North-American (and British) rock on Mexican culture was a rather significant factor in that all of the influence of North American culture on Mexican culture was beginning to be seen as a social problem in México, and youth singing pop songs in English were seen as a transgression. | | | Rock music in México, was and has continued to emerge in light of an unstable relationship between the U.S. and México, or perhaps North American cultural imperialism and Mexican youth. | | | Some listened to rock music and used it to torment their family. |
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http://popmatters.com/chapter/Issue3/mexico.html
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| | Folk-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other fusions of folk and rock include New Flamenco (Spain), the pop-oriented forms of North African raï music, and in the music of The Pogues and the Dropkick Murphys, both of whom draw on traditional Irish music and punk rock. | | | Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. | | | The Canadian band Celtae are fusing two folk traditions, that of Cape Breton and Newfoundland with a broad definition of rock that includes elements of hard rock, funk, and jazz while retaining the original flavour of the traditional music. |
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| | Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 km² (247 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east. | | | Toronto's climate is moderated by Lake Ontario; its climate is among the mildest and least snowy in Canada east of the Rocky Mountain range. | | | Toronto is the most multicultural city in the world. |
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| | Folk-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other fusions of folk and rock include New Flamenco (Spain), the pop-oriented forms of North African raï music, and in the music of The Pogues and the Dropkick Murphys, both of whom draw on traditional Irish music and punk rock. | | | Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. | | | Still, the term is not usually applied to rock music rooted in the blues-based or other African American music (except as mediated through folk revivalists), nor to rock music with Cajun roots, nor to music (especially after about 1980) with non-European folk roots, which is more typically classified as world music. |
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| | Brazilian Student Association - Stanford - recent |
| | The movement called "mangue beat", a fusion of hard rock and hip hop with north-eastern styles such as "maracatu" (slow, heavy Afro-Brazilian processional and accompanying dance from northeastern Brasil), becomes popular in Recife and then in the rest of the country. | | | Rock group Paralamas do Sucesso records a live album at the Montreux Jazz Festival | | | "Rock in Rio", a ten-day music festival featuring national and international artists with a public of 1.38 million people, helps to popularize native groups and to develop Brazilian rock. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/brazil/html/bmh69-99.html
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| | Toronto - Wikitravel |
| | Toronto is one of the safest large metropolis in North America, even safer than other Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Montreal. | | | The Waterloo region to the west has colleges and culture, and Muskoka, to the north and The Kawarthas to the east of Toronto, is cottage country, with country inns, hundreds of lakes and rivers, camping, fishing/hunting, provincial parks, and a wealth of year-round outdoor activities. | | | Toronto Rock [15] - National Lacrosse League, play at the Air Canada Centre |
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| | The Observer - Something Corporate's sophomore album, North, alternates between good and great - October 31, 2003 |
| | What I am really trying to say is that North is a well-made album that sounds good and that I really enjoyed, but I was a little disappointed that they didnt try anything different. | | | The album drifts between genres, from punk inspired indie rock and emo to the softer songs of alternative pop rock group Ben Folds Five. | | | If you do and you liked it, their new album, North, is perfect for you. |
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http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/observer/archive/03-10-31/stories/Ente02.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: Elvis Costello's North heads straight south |
| | The album isn't a rock album, Al, and it doesn't need to have hooks like a rock album would. | | | Her album did have at least a couple of decently competent pop songs, with hooks that linger in your ear. | | | The biggest problem this album faces is Elvis' own fanbase, the majority of whom are stuck on one "version" of Elvis they particularly like and won't accept anything outside of that. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/01/015513.php
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| | Folk-rock Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art |
| | Other fusions of folk and rock include New Flamenco ( Spain), the pop-oriented forms of North African raï music, and in the music of The Pogues and the Dropkick Murphys, both of whom draw on traditional Irish music and punk rock. | | | Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. | | | Still, the term is not usually applied to rock music rooted in the blues -based or other African American music (except as mediated through folk revivalists), nor to rock music with Cajun roots, nor to music (especially after about 1980) with non-European folk roots, which is more typically classified as world music. |
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http://search.localcolorart.com/search/encyclopedia/Folk-rock
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| | Your Guide to Spotting the North American Rock Critic |
| | Due to the high concentration of college newspapers and "grassroots" web sites, the Indie Thug is one of the most common variations of the North American Rock Critic, and therefore one of the most boring to talk about. | | | The Zeitgeist Obsessive is one of the most popular and least readable varieties of rock critic out there, less content to ask "Is the new album by the John Q. Rokkstarr a great listen?" than "Can John Q. Rokkstarr save music?". | | | KotCs are straight-up boomer rock goons, the kinds of people who still insist that Woodstock was the best concert ever and music went right down the toilet when disco and punk showed up. |
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| | The Northern Bear dialect is similar to that of the Rock, a group which moved north late in the sixteenth century, pointing to their own relatively late arrival into historic Huronia. | | | The dialect of the Southern Bear is closest to the dialects spoken by the Cord and the Petun, the first 'Wendat' to move north into the area of Georgian Bay. | | | A different Bear dialect was recorded in the writings of Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard, who lived with the Huron in 1623-24. |
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| | Sade: Lovers Live |
| | Lovers Rock CD, and 2001 was even more exciting with her band's first North American tour in almost a decade. | | | As might be expected, it was a sleek, sophisticated two-hour performance, featuring 10 Lovers Rock songs and 11 hits from her four prior albums. | | | The most noticeable omission on the live CD is, in fact, the title song from Lovers Rock, which seems a tad surprising given it was part of the concert and was performed very well. |
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| | Baltimore City Paper: ARTS With Their New Album, the North Mississippi Allstars Declare that Southern Rock Shall Rise Again |
| | The Tarbox Ramblers, for example, hail from Boston, but their forthcoming second album was produced in Memphis by Jim Dickinson and turns old blues and gospel tunes into irreverent rock 'n' roll. | | | Their enthusiasm is broad enough to embrace both the past and the future, both the 19th-century rhythms of Hill Country juke joints and the 21st-century attitudes of urban rock clubs. | | | You get an album with more melody than Burnside's music, more youthful spark than the Allmans', and a far funkier groove than the Replacements'. |
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| | feature1 |
| | Raï music stemming from North Africa is hugely popular, with Rachid Taha and Faudel marrying rock with "maghreb," and the celtic and folk genre, which has a long tradition of mixing with rock, makes its French appearance with the folk and acoustic band Louise Attaque, whose last album sold two million copies. | | | France's most popular archetypal indie rock band, Noir Désir, mixed it with techno on their last album, and even classical music features in much French rock, with artists like Yann Tiersen using the violin and piano to channel his post rock synthesis. | | | Its focus is global and the five bands on the label range from punk rock to jazz improvisation. |
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| | Northwestern Chronicle: Something Corporate and Yellowcard equal pop-punk ectasy |
| | Something Corporate cleverly covered Outkast's "Hey Ya" to perfection, complete with the call and response "fellas" and "ladies" parts, and finished their set with "Punk Rock Princess" and the entire audience bouncing up and down. | | | While it's the best demonstration of the "piano" in the band's "piano rock," and a fan favorite (the shrieks after the opening notes prove it), it was still a risky decision to play a song of that length in such a short set. | | | After two opening bands, Sleeping At Last and The Format, Something Corporate took the stage to play a mix of covers and tracks from "Ready...Break," "Leaving Through The Window," and "North" (respectively their second, third and fourth albums). |
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| | Goiaba Brazilian Music: Artists |
| | The album is a highly original bland of Brazilian music from the North East of Brazil, with modern urban elements of pop, rock, and folk. | | | The samba rock band Clube do Balanço passionately promotes its music as a style, with a set of great video's evolving around their first CD "Swing and Samba Rock". | | | is different from his samba rock and funk albums from the past. |
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| | CNN.com - Ho ho ho, it's 'A Kid Rock Christmas' - Dec. 13, 2003 |
| | For "Kid Rock," Rock retreated to his studio, the Allen Roadhouse, which he says is "north of Detroit, south of heaven," but asked that its exact location not be revealed. | | | Rock was a Detroit-area hip-hop DJ when he broke through with 1998's "Devil Without a Cause," which successfully married hard rock beats with rap lyrics. | | | Long known for his diverse musical tastes, Rock on this album pounds out tunes that run the gamut of musical styles: country, Southern rock, blues, hip-hop and metal. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/13/music.kidrock.ap
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| | Rock 'n' roll gets back to basics - ROCK MUSIC - MSNBC.com |
| | The bandâs fairy tale rise from the sylvan hinterlands of Scandinavia to international dominance should be entering the completion phase with Tuesdayâs release of their third album, âTyrannosaurus Hives,â an ebullient neo-retro rock ânâ roll hyper-drive triumph, and a whirlwind tour of North America, Japan, and Europe to support it. | | | Rock ânâ roll, real rock ânâ roll â loud wild rhythmic music, ultimately derived from the holy pairing of black blues and white CandW in the '50s, with dancing and screaming and guitars and strippers and human sacrifice ⦠oh wait, Iâm getting off track â is on about its fifth resurrection. | | | We are in the middle of yet another rock ânâ roll resurgence: simple (but not simplistic) music stripped down to the elemental essentials of guitar, bass, drums, vocals and attitude (the White Stripes have even stripped out the bass); bands with short, slightly anachronistic names like the White Stripes, the Strokes and the Hives. |
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| | Alpine Club: Ontario Rock |
| | The rock is never to be fully trusted, even on well-travelled routes; protection is rarely abundant; the climbing involves awkward moves on sloping holds that often seem to face the wrong way; retreat is problematical (unless you are adept at swimming while wearing a full rack); and the exposure can be very intimidating. | | | Lion's Head is three-and-a-half hours' drive north of Toronto, on the edge of the Bruce Peninsula, and is probably the finest climbing area on the Escarpment. | | | The Niagara Escarpment is a limestone outcrop that runs more or less continuously from Niagara Falls in the south to Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in the north. |
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| | Canadian Progressive Rock CDs |
| | This 1976 album from a Québec band is one of the finest progressive rock albums to come out of North America. | | | The Quebec 70s scene was one of the richest in progressive rock, and Opus 5 was one of the standout bands, using lots of flute in addition to keys, guitars, bass and drums. | | | A compilation from this pioneering French-Canadian progressive rock band, believed to be the first rock band in Quebec to have a repertoire entirely in French. |
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| | Jovem Guarda: Early Brazilian Rock'n'Roll |
| | She was one of the first, and liveliest, Brazilian rockers, covering North American pop tunes and Brazilian soundalikes. | | | By the time of her second album, Quero Voce, Wanderlea's rock sound had solidified and toughened up, and the girl group debt was made plainer with the inclusion of covers such as "Meu Bem Lollipop". | | | This was the album that really broke the mould for Brazilian rockers, and inspired several generations of experimentation. |
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| | Jazz Stations |
| | Nearly 150 channels of music from Rock and Jazz to Classical and Country to Oldies and Urban to Kids and World music. | | | Modern rock, jazz, blues, and alternative music from this Internet-only site using Imagine Radio's listener sharing capabilities. | | | Jazz and Gospel from North Carolina A and T University in Greensboro, NC. |
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| | Glam! by Barney Hoskyns - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e |
| | But for a younger generation of rock fans, glam--or glitter rock as it was known in North America--remains a mystery. | | | But the elitism overlooks the music's most enduring legacy: glam was musical theater with a good beat. | | | All that's known is that it was a strange 1970s musical phenomenon, where male rockers dressed better than their female groupies. |
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| | Folksy Links - Folk Bands and Musicians On Line |
| | Red Cardell's original idea was to blend Breton music, punk rock and French realistic songs, these being their early influences but other styles such as Electro, Eastern Europe, South American and North African eventually crept into the general sound. | | | Ur'ia, the crossroad of the modern (underground, rock music, brit-pop, fusion, break-beat, r'n'b) and ancient cultures of many peoples is the musical conception of this project. | | | CoÏncidence, seven young musicians, rocked since their more tender childhood by the folk-rock music and the Seventies rebel songs. |
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| | CNN.com - Jaguares' Latin rock uprising - Jan. 3, 2003 |
| | Despite receiving little support from U.S. radio stations, the band is building a growing fan base north of the Mexican border, primarily on the strength of their impassioned live performances. | | | In 1984 they formed Caifanes, a rock band that incorporated elements of British New Wave and Goth into the musicians' own musical tastes. | | | "They may be one of the most cerebral rock bands in Mexico," says Ramiro Burr, a music journalist for the San Antonio Express-News. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/02/jaguares
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| | Music Spectrum: College Rock: Mirah TomYov Zeitlyn & Ginger Brooks Takahashi's Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project |
| | Without knowing the back story, the album appears to be a collection meant to explore wide-ranging corners of rock music. | | | Now add Fact #1 from the back story of the album: Zeitlyn and Takahashi recorded this album over a period of a month in a house near Black Mountain, North Carolina, having seven friends stop in during the month to contribute to the album. | | | College Rock: Mirah TomYov Zeitlyn & Ginger Brooks Takahashi's Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project |
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http://musicspectrum.blogspot.com/2004/05/college-rock-mirah-tomyov-zeitlyn.html
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| | North Something Corporate Review Picture Lyric Music Alternative Rock CD |
| | North might be the album for you if your taste is more soft rock than punk rock and, as an added bonus, mom might like it too. | | | The lyrical content of North is, by far, the worst thing about this album. | | | The guys of Something Corporate tried to steer clear of using studio effects on this album, which gives North an authentic live show flavor. |
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