featured pop/rock albums
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- Taylor Swift
- Red
- Taylor Swift makes her big pop crossover move on Red.
- Kelly Clarkson
- Greatest Hits, Chapter…
- Kelly Clarkson's first hits collection proves she was one of the great pop stars of the new millennium.
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- Calvin Harris
- 18 Months
- Collaborations with Rihanna, Kelis, Florence Welch, and Ellie Goulding, among others, help make Harris' third album a shiny showcase of modern pop.
- One Direction
- Take Me Home
- Sophomore album from the British boy band features more bright, dance-oriented pop including two songs co-written by Ed Sheeran.
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- The Rolling Stones
- GRRR!
- The Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary with the terrific multi-disc compilation GRRR!, available either as a three- or four-CD set.
- Led Zeppelin
- Celebration Day
- Led Zeppelin's brilliant one-off 2007 reunion is captured in its entirety on Celebration Day.
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- Queen
- Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen…
- The legendary Queen bring Western rock to the Eastern Bloc with their live concert film Hungarian Rhapsody.
- Kiss
- The Casablanca Singles:…
- All of the group's 29 singles for the Casablanca label are collected on this fan-aimed and well-executed set.
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- Ben Harper / Charlie M …
- Get Up!
- The pairing of these two talents under the ragged blues flag yields rough, rowdy, good-time tunes played with fire and verve.
- Billy Joel
- She's Got a Way: Love…
- Enjoyable collection of Billy Joel's romantic tunes.
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- Christina Aguilera
- Lotus
- Christina Aguilera plays it safe and savvy on the satisfyingly streamlined Lotus.
- Green Day
- Uno... Dos... Tré!
- The final installment in Green Day's punk-pop trilogy of 2012 plays like a collection of enjoyable leftovers from its two predecessors.
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- Elvis Costello
- In Motion Pictures
- In Motion Pictures is a wildly diverse compilation of Elvis Costello songs that have been featured in films over the years.
- Aerosmith
- Music from Another Dimension!
- Aerosmith acts like the 2010s were the '90s on the big, splashy, overblown Music from Another Dimension!
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- Pet Shop Boys
- Memory of the Future:…
- The third single from the duo's 2012 album Elysium gets remixed by Ulrich Schnauss, DJ Waldo, and Digital Dog.
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- Sonic Youth
- Smart Bar: Chicago 1985
- A raw document of Sonic Youth in their hungry early days, this live set captures them at a white-hot peak that they'd never fully return to.
- Motörhead
- Complete Early Years
- Released to coincide with the legendary New Wave of Heavy Metal outfit's 35th anniversary, this mammoth box set is cool, but pricey.
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- AC/DC
- Live at River Plate
- AC/DC deliver the rocking goods on the fun Live at River Plate.
- Celine Dion
- Sans Attendre
- Celine Dion's return to French-language pop is one of her best albums in recent memory.
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- Soundgarden
- King Animal
- Soundgarden's comeback King Animal is a muscular, natural return to form.
- Alice Cooper
- Old School (1964-1974)
- This collection of grainy demos, live recordings, and interviews shows there was a lot more to this classic shock rock band than its studio albums.
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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