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1. The Tao of 'Smooth,' Rock's Enduring Earworm

Author

Tannenbaum, Rob

Subjects
Smooth (Sound recording) -- Appreciation -- Influence, Rock groups -- Works, Guitarists -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Santana (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Santana's track featuring Rob Thomas turns 25 this week. Why is it still a rock blockbuster? ''To really appreciate 'Smooth,' you have to embrace how cheesy 'Smooth' is,'' Rob Thomas [...]

Published
2024

2. 'Stairway to Heaven' holds onto top spot in WDVE's Memorial Day 500

Author

Pastrick, Chris

Subjects
WDVE-Radio (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Memorial Day, Bohemian Rhapsody (Song) -- Rankings, Sweet Home Alabama (Song) -- Rankings, Stairway to Heaven (Song) -- Rankings, Rock groups -- Works, Radio broadcasting industry -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Queen (Music group) -- Works, Lynyrd Skynyrd (Music group) -- Works, Led Zeppelin (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Byline: Chris Pastrick May 28Another edition of WDVE's annual Memorial Day 500 countdown of classic rock songs is in the books. And, for a second straight year, Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway [...]

Published
2024

3. The Stones roll out a surprise in New York

Author

Ruggieri, Melissa

Subjects
Hackney Diamonds (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, News, opinion and commentary, The Rolling Stones (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Byline: Melissa Ruggieri USA TODAY NEW YORK - The Rolling Stones will not go quietly. Nearly 60 years since dropping their blues-steeped debut, the legendary rock band rooted by Mick [...]

Published
2023

4. Why 'Dark Side of the Moon' still matters at 50, and not just to dads

Author

Burr, Ty

Subjects
The Dark Side of the Moon (Musical work) -- Influence -- Appreciation, Sound recordings -- Appreciation -- Influence, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Pink Floyd (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Byline: Ty Burr You lower a record player's stylus onto an LP, and it begins. The crackle of needle on vinyl is silenced by a long, low heartbeat fading in [...]

Published
2023

5. Reworked 'Songs' reflect shifts in U2

Author

Ruggieri, Melissa

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, News, opinion and commentary, U2 (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Byline: Melissa Ruggieri USA TODAY With age, comes reflection. U2 has been a brotherhood since 1976. Through stadium sellouts, hundreds of millions of albums sold, questionable professional choices (PopMart Tour, [...]

Published
2023

6. Fontaines D.C. Look Back at Ireland in Anger and Sorrow; The Irish rock band continues the explosive post-punk sound they displayed on their 2019 debut

Author

Chiu, David

Subjects
Skinty Fia (Sound recording) -- Authorship -- Appreciation, Singers -- Works -- Interviews, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: David Chiu Just prior to their move from Dublin to London a few years ago, the members of the Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. came across a newspaper story [...]

Published
2022

7. It's Spoken Rock 'n' Roll, but We Like It

Author

Reynolds, Simon

Subjects
Stumpwork (Sound recording), Rock singers -- Works -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The British rock band's distinctive sound comes from the vocalist Florence Shaw's carefully delivered observations that float somewhere between stand-up, poetry and comedy. LOS ANGELES -- At the Primavera Sound [...]

Published
2022

8. Dreamy Indie Rockers Crank Up the Volume

Author

Gordon, Jeremy

Subjects
Blue Rev (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Molly Rankin's group is known for emotional and melodic sophistication. Talking about its latest LP, ''Blue Rev,'' she reflected on how her family's deep musical history led her there. When [...]

Published
2022

9. The Queue

Author

Considine, Austin

Subjects
Skinty Fia (Sound recording), Damnation (Motion picture), The Rehearsal (Television program), Filmmakers -- Works, Television producers and directors -- Works, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Austin Considine, The Times's assistant TV editor, is pining for the time when his TV no longer has to compete with his air-conditioning unit. 'The Rehearsal' ''Nathan for You'' took [...]

Published
2022

10. The four 'SZNZ' of Weezer

Subjects
SZNZ (Sound recording) -- Appreciation, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, Weezer (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1087173272 HOST: A MARTINEZ (SOUNDBITE OF PERFORMANCE OF VIVALDI'S 'THE FOUR SEASONS') A MARTINEZ: Antonio Vivaldi captured the feeling of springtime for this [...]

Published
2022

11. Unsung Heroes of West-Coast Classic Rock

Author

Gress, Jesse

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, Rock music -- History, Guitarists -- Appreciation, Consumer news and advice, General interest, Music
Abstract

THE TERM 'CLASSIC ROCK' GENERALLY encompasses the psychedelic, blues--rock, and progressive rock genres that emerged during the musically fertile era between 1965 and 1980--with a couple of years off during [...]

Published
2018

13. Group Rereleases a Song in Russian to Support Ukraine

Author

Zornosa, Laura

Subjects
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022-, The General (Song) -- Authorship, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Dispatch (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

The band members Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan said they hope that Russian soldiers will hear the antiwar song and discontinue their invasion. The roots rock band Dispatch on Tuesday [...]

Published
2022

14. Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Unlimited Love' Tops Chart

Author

Sisario, Ben

Subjects
Unlimited Love (Musical work), Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

The band reunites with its former guitarist, John Frusciante, and the producer Rick Rubin for its latest album. Everything aligned for Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest album, ''Unlimited Love,'' which [...]

Published
2022

15. Pink Floyd releases first new song in nearly three decades for Ukraine

Author

Mark, Julian

Subjects
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022-, Hey Hey Rise Up (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Pink Floyd (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Byline: Julian Mark Even after BoomBox frontman Andriy Khlyvnyuk ditched his United States tour and went back to his home country of Ukraine to fight the invading Russian army, he [...]

Published
2022

16. The Linda Lindas Step Forward

Author

Ryzik, Melena

Subjects
Growing Up (Musical work), Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Fueled by punk conviction (and snacks), this all-girl, school-age band is ready to release its debut album, ''Growing Up,'' nearly a year after its song ''Racist, Sexist Boy'' went viral. [...]

Published
2022

17. Guess Who won't make it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Author

Wheeler, Brad

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Abstract

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead This Friday saw the release of Bachman Cummings: The Collection, a stylish seven-CD collection of five albums by the Guess Who, along with best-of compilations [...]

Published
2021

18. Drake Sets New Solo Best, Hits Top 10 With Migos

Subjects
Walk It Talk It (Song) -- Rankings, Florida Georgia Line (Song) -- Criticism and interpretation, Whatever It Takes (Song) -- Rankings -- Market share, God's Plan (Song) -- Market share -- Rankings, Career development -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Works, Rap singers -- Works -- Interviews, Songs -- Rankings -- Criticism and interpretation -- Market share, Company market share, Arts and entertainment industries, Music
Abstract

DRAKE'S 'GOD'S PLAN' rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated April 14) for an 11th week, marking the longest-leading of his four No. is and passing the 10-week reign of his [...]

Published
2018

19. Before and After 'Maggot Brain'

Author

Weingarten, Christopher R.

Subjects
Maggot Brain (Sound recording) -- Appreciation, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

On more than three dozen virtuosic, genre-blurring studio albums released from 1970 to 1982, George Clinton and his rollicking Parliament-Funkadelic collective shaped the backbone and shook loose the booty of [...]

Published
2021

20. Glass Animals

Subjects
Heat Waves (Song) -- Rankings, Music industry -- Rankings, Rock groups -- Works, Musicians, English -- Works, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

[up arrow] The U.K. band's 'Heat Waves' lands a Billboard Hot 100 record for hitting No. 1 on the chart 59 weeks after the single debuted in June 2020. Please [...]

Published
2022

21. TURN AROUND, BRIGHT EYES: Why after nearly a decade away, Conor Oberst came back to his comfort zone--with help from a new label

Author

Havens, Lyndsey

Subjects
Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, Arts and entertainment industries, Music, Bright Eyes (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

IN THE LATE 1990s, A THEN-newly formed Bright Eyes sent cassette-tape demos of what became its second album, Letting Off the Happi ness, to Merge, Matador and several other independent [...]

Published
2020

22. Here comes The Resurrection: Canadian alt-rock is back in a big way

Author

Kovac, Adam

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, Alternative rock music -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Arts, visual and performing, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Montreal's Club Lambi is a grungy, beat down, no frills type of venue. A small stage, a few tables, a light rig that is a few thousand watts away from [...]

Published
2014

23. Back in the Black: AC/DC Album Debuts at No. 1

Author

Sisario, Ben

Subjects
Music industry -- Industry forecasts, Sound recordings -- Rankings, Rock groups -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, AC/DC (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

The band's 17th studio album is its third to top the Billboard 200. One truism of the music business in the 21st century: AC/DC will sell a ton of albums, [...]

Published
2020

24. 'Localize it': rock, cosmopolitanism, and the nation in Trinidad

Author

Rommen, Timothy

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, Rock music -- History, Rock music -- Evaluation, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, Music
Abstract

The music and careers of three rock bands in Trinidad are analyzed. This is done to illustrate the cosmopolitan approaches bands follow to expand from their localized spaces and carve a national Trinidadian identity for rock music.

Published
2007

25. After 33 Years, Northern Haze Is Back With New Album 'Siqinnaarut'

Subjects
Siqinnaarut (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, Singers, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=691058287 HOST: LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO: On a week when some Americans experience bitterly cold temperatures, perhaps it's appropriate we spend some time [...]

Published
2019

26. Performing the avant-garde groove: Devo and the whiteness of the new wave

Author

Cateforis, Theo

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, Arts and entertainment industries, Music, Devo (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

'Devo' took one week in New York City to transform from relative obscurity into a popular music 'cause celebre' and a band that would come to symbolize the nascent American new wave rock movement as a form of avant-garde entertainment. The band consists of three guitarists, a bassist and a drummer dressed in yellow maintenance suits and three-dimensional (3-D) glasses.

Published
2004

27. Album of the year: melding punk ferocity with prog bombast, Damian Abraham and crew may never make another album that so captures a year's fitful zeitgeist. They may never make another one, period

Author

Marchese, David

Subjects
David Comes to Life (Sound recording) -- Appreciation, Rock groups -- Works, Punk rock music, Music
Abstract

THE SUN SETS on a perfect November Sunday and I'm lost. The music is loud, the maple trees are covered in blood-red leaves, and I am happily, wonderfully lost. I'm [...]

Published
2012

28. It's good to be kings

Author

Eliscu, Jenny

Subjects
Kings of Leon (Music group) -- Family, Kings of Leon (Music group) -- Works, Kings of Leon (Music group) -- Evaluation, Come Around Sundown (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Family, Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Evaluation
Published
2010

30. The unstoppable ambition of Arcade Fire

Author

Fricke, David

Subjects
Arcade Fire (Music group) -- Works, Arcade Fire (Music group) -- Performances, The Suburbs (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Performances
Published
2010

31. Punghing the clock: the Walkmen age gracefully

Author

Bevan, David

Subjects
Lisbon (Sound recording) -- Appreciation, Rock groups -- Works, Arts and entertainment industries, Fashion, accessories and textiles industries, The Walkmen (Music group) -- Works
Abstract

Hot smoke is twisting its way upward into Peter Bauer's face, his forehead glossy with sweat. As he fans himself above the maw of the grill, the other four members [...]

Published
2010

32. No worries: even with an uncertain future Yeasayer has nothing to fear

Author

Hockley-Smith, Sam

Subjects
Odd Blood (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, Arts and entertainment industries, Fashion, accessories and textiles industries
Abstract

Waiting in line for Korean food, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder is wearing glasses slightly too big for his head and a backpack cinched up between his shoulder blades. I'm on time, [...]

Published
2010

33. No apologies: Brit rockers conduct most ostentatious opus yet

Author

Fennessey, Sean

Subjects
Sound recordings -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Works, Music
Abstract

AMBITION ISN'T THE word. Gall isn't either. The vocabulary probably hasn't been invented to describe the yearn and churn of Britain's most shameless band's fifth album. Having mastered electro-prog, surf-prog, [...]

Published
2009

34. Pomp and circumstance: from the bombastic songs to the retina-searing light shows to the stadium crowds, everything about Muse is supermassive. Will the resistance, their biggest-sounding album yet--think steroids on steroids--finally bring America to its knees?

Author

Marchese, David

Subjects
The Resistance (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, Music
Abstract

IT'S MIDNIGHT on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and the apple-cheeked guitarist in the baggy tank top doesn't know what's coming. 'Yeah, we've got another show in Brooklyn in a couple [...]

Published
2009

35. Wilco. Frankly: from private heartaches to public battles, 'the quintessential American rock band' has had a career full of high drama. So why are they now on top of the world?

Author

Dolan, Jon

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Social aspects, Rock groups -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Music, Wilco (Music group) -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Wilco (Music group) -- Works, Wilco (Music group) -- Social aspects
Abstract

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] School's out. For. Wednesday. It's three o'clock on the kind of perfect spring day winter-hardened Chicagoans pray for as Jeff Tweedy's black minivan stops in front [...]

Published
2009

36. Moneen: studiophiles

Author

Taylor-Munro, Chris

Subjects
Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Songs -- Authorship
Abstract

With three records and three EPs under its belt, Brampton-born, Toronto-based Moneen can now add Juno-nominated to its credentials for the DVD it all Started With a Red Stripe. 2008 […]

Published
2009

40. Strange magic

Author

Marsh, Steve

Subjects
Traveling Wilburys (Music group) -- Works, Traveling Wilburys (Music group) -- History, Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- History
Published
2008

43. Peaceful, uneasy feeling

Author

Young, Charles M.

Subjects
The Eagles (Music group) -- Evaluation, The Eagles (Music group) -- History, The Eagles (Music group) -- Works, Rock groups -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- History, Rock groups -- Works, Sound recordings -- Evaluation
Published
2008

44. Tokyo Police Club: the elephant in the room

Author

Love, Noah

Subjects
Elephant Shell (Sound recording) -- Evaluation, Alternative rock music -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Family and marriage, Music
Published
2008

45. Black Mountain: In the Future

Author

Love, Noah

Subjects
In the Future (Sound recording), Sound recordings -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Performances, Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Evaluation, Rock music -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Family and marriage, Music
Published
2007

46. Radiohead: In Rainbows; Independent

Subjects
In Rainbows (Sound recording), Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Family and marriage, Music, Radiohead (Music group) -- Works, Radiohead (Music group) -- Evaluation
Published
2007

47. Interpol: in their own words

Author

Love, Noah

Subjects
Rock music -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Travel, Rock groups -- Works, Rock groups -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Arts and entertainment industries, Family and marriage, Music
Published
2007

48. Queen of the Stone Age

Author

Love, Noah

Subjects
Era Vulgaris (Sound recording) -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Evaluation, Rock groups -- Works, Sound recordings -- Evaluation, Rock music -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Family and marriage, Music
Published
2007

50. The madness and majesty of Pink Floyd

Author

Gilmore, Mikal

Subjects
Pink Floyd (Music group) -- History, Pink Floyd (Music group) -- Management, Pink Floyd (Music group) -- Works, Rock groups -- History, Rock groups -- Management, Rock groups -- Works, Company business management
Published
2007

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