Punk rock

Good rock albums have the ability to energize you. They grab listeners’ attention and make them rethink what music can be. Here are just 10 of the top rock albums of all time, which have furthered the genre and subsequent subgenres, and inspired other artists to pick up a guitar and jam. Number Ten: Fleetwood Mac, ‘Rumors’ Fleetwood Mac’s second major label album, Rumours saw the recently reformed band at their most emotionally raw. Featuring such hits as “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” many…

movement influenced and gave music, fashion, and attitude a new name. So what is this movement I’ve been talking so highly of? The Punk Movement. This movement was had a major effect on the younger generation, and was not just a music genre. It was much larger than that; a statement, an attitude, a fashion, and a lifestyle. It started in the early to mid 1970s around 1974. “Punk was created by youths who identified themselves, not primarily as artists, but as bored working class youths looking…

Punk began in the 1970’s and changed the lifestyles of many who were influenced by this movement. Smithereens is a Punk rock romance movie that was made in 1982 and takes place in New York City. The movie portrayed lots of different aspects about the Punk’s including, the music, the fashion, and the lifestyle. The music was particularly hard to find in this movie because the plot focused on a girl, Wren, who left her home and would find a bed wherever she could. Her night life included…

didn’t know how to deal with it. If there was a Rock Star 101 course, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.” Number Three: On Women in Rock Music A forward-thinking male feminist, Kurt Cobain has talked out against rape and the oppressive treatment of women. He was once quoted as saying, “I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.” It is because of this quote that when Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame, the band had…

Over the summer there was a musical festival that happens at PNC Art Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. The genre of music bands play at Warped Tour is mainly pop punk and alternative with a little bit of screamo. If you attend Warped Tour you will notice the audience to be a mix of teenagers and college students. Bands used instruments such as the guitar, bass, and drums. The music was very upbeat and fast paced which the crowd reacted to in a violent manner. If you attend Warped Tour you will…

Peppers continue to lead the “alternative” in the rock industry starting from their beginnings in Hollywood, California, in 1983. Their form of alternative rock incorporates sounds from funk, punk rock, rap, and metal that helped them gain popularity among the subcultures that were flourishing at the time in Los Angeles that later turned into international stardom. “A potent combination of L.A. skateboard cool, tattoos, thrash, and funk, the…

Rock and Roll! Rock is what I’m talking about but how did this phenomenon occur? Well it started with an African American man named Chuck Berry; He combined all the Blues and Jazz, the most popular music that was going on at the time. This brought teenagers together it was no longer black and white it was just teenagers. Rock & Roll was very controversial when it was first made to the public the adults thought it was destroying the youth with how vulgar and obscene it was. A great example of…

How have industry figures wielded their power in pop’s production and dissemination processes, and how have musicians responded? Making reference to relevant literature and one or more recordings from the period 1900-2000, discuss the problems of power and mediation as they apply to popular music history. Industry figures have influenced the production and dissemination of popular music over the twentieth century in different ways. The production of popular music and its dissemination has…

Formed in 1987, Green Day is an American pop punk band from Oakland, California. The members include lead singer and guitarists Billie Joe Armstrong, Bassist and backing vocals Mike Dirnt (Mike Pritchard), and drummer Tre Cool. Childhood friends Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt formed a band called Sweet Children at the age of fifteen. In Vallejo, California Sweet Children’s first concert took place at Rod’s Hickory Pit, where Billie Joe’s mother was working at the time. In 1989, the band had changed…

first boutique ‘Let It Rock’ and her earlier works with Malcolm McLaren, her musical influences and the impact they had on her and finally, discussing a collection of a later date stating the imact that had upon society. From extensive research I can clearly…