featured pop/rock albums
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- Moonface
- Heartbreaking Bravery
- The second solo album by the Wolf Parade songwriter finds some wintry place where every song feels like the epic last song on the album.
- Davy Jones
- The Bell Recordings (1971-1972)
- This set includes the lone album and the A- and B-sides of three singles Davy Jones released for Bell Records between 1971 and 1972.
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- Andre Williams / Andre …
- Night & Day
- Begun in 2008 amid Williams' problems with drugs and the law, he wrapped this collaboration up clean and sober, but it's nonetheless unhinged.
- Bleeding Knees Club
- Nothing to Do
- Bleeding Knees Club's rambunctious, youthful debut LP is made for lazy hangouts, trips to the beach, or drives to a make-out spot.
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- Mystery Jets
- Radlands
- The sunburned, burnished glow to the best moments on the band's fourth album -- recorded in Austin, Texas -- evokes Laurel Canyon circa 1972.
- Diamond Rugs
- Diamond Rugs
- The songs have a ragged swagger that lurks somewhere between a Stones tribute act and the second-best garage band in town.
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- Peter Gabriel
- Live Blood
- Capturing a concert held at London's Hammersmith Apollo in March of 2011, several months prior to the release of his re-interpretive record New Blood, the…
- Tenacious D
- Rize of the Fenix
- Tenacious D rise from the ashes of The Pick of Destiny with Rize of the Fenix, a heavy, silly return to form.
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- Bruce Springsteen
- Wrecking Ball
- Bruce Springsteen melds the workingman's folk of Pete Seeger with impressionistic modern rock on the angry protest album Wrecking Ball.
- The Dandy Warhols
- This Machine
- The Dandy Warhols get a little more serious on This Machine, and the results are some of their finest songs yet.
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- Of Monsters and Men
- My Head Is an Animal
- The 2012 full-length debut from Of Monsters and Men features the six-piece Icelandic folk-rock band's anthemic, romantic pop.
- Jerry Reed
- The Unbelievable Guitar…
- Real Gone's 2012 two-fer reissues Jerry Reed's first two albums on one CD.
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- Sonny Landreth
- Elemental Journey
- Elemental Journey is Sonny Landreth's 11th solo album, and it's his first all-instrumental outing, and folks, this isn't a blues album.
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- Santana
- Shape Shifter
- On the self-produced, self-released, mostly instrumental Shape Shifter, Carlos Santana's fiery, innovative guitar playing returns to the fore.
- Spiritualized
- Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
- Spiritualized's seventh album returns to the orchestral and gospel flourishes of Amazing Grace and Let It Come Down.
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- Casey James
- Casey James
- American Idol finalist Casey James creates a slick, enjoyable blend of modern country and contemporary blues on his long-in-the-works debut album.
- Loudon Wainwright III
- Older Than My Old Man…
- Loudon Wainwright III enlists his children, wives, and exes, and even his late father on Older Than My Old Man Now.
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- UV Pøp
- No Songs Tomorrow
- This lost classic of proto-goth, post-punk dourness from 1983 can be summed up in one word: bleak.
- Cold Specks
- I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
- Canada-born, England-based singer/songwriter weaves a somber web of modern indie folk woe built atop a foundation of weathered gospel and blues.
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about pop/rock
Rock & Roll is often used as a generic term, but its sound is rarely predictable. From the outset, when the early rockers merged country and blues, rock has been defined by its energy, rebellion and catchy hooks, but as the genre aged, it began to shed those very characteristics, placing equal emphasis on craftmanship and pushing the boundaries of the music. As a result, everything from Chuck Berry's pounding, three-chord rockers and the sweet harmonies of the Beatles to the jarring, atonal white noise of Sonic Youth has been categorized as "rock." That's accurate -- rock & roll had a specific sound and image for only a handful of years. For most of its life, rock has been fragmented, spinning off new styles and variations every few years, from Brill Building Pop and heavy metal to dance-pop and grunge. And that's only natural for a genre that began its life as a fusion of styles.
pop/rock subgenres and styles [+] expand all
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- [+]Alternative/Indie Rock
- [+]Art-Rock/Experimental
- [+]British Invasion
- [+]Dance
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- [+]Heavy Metal
- [+]Pop/Rock
- [+]Psychedelic/Garage
- [+]Punk/New Wave
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- [+]Rock & Roll/Roots
- [+]Singer/Songwriter
- [+]Soft Rock