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The Cure are an English rock band that formed in Crawley, Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, guitarist and main songwriter Robert Smith—known for his iconic wild hair, pale complexion, smudged lipstick and frequently gloomy and introspective lyrics—being the only constant member.

The members of The Cure first started releasing music in the late 1970s. Their first album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), and early singles placed them as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s the band’s increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre. After the release of 1982’s Pornography, the band’s future was uncertain and frontman Robert Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had cultivated. With the 1982 single “Let’s Go to Bed” Smith began to inject more of a pop sensibility into the band’s music. The Cure’s popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States, where the songs “Just Like Heaven“, “Lovesong” and “Friday I’m in Love” entered the Billboard Top 40 charts. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world and have sold an estimated 27 million albums as of 2004. As of 2007, The Cure have released twelve studio albums and over thirty singles, with a thirteenth album in the works.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock bands went beyond the established rock music formulas by experimenting with different instruments, song types, and musical forms. Progressive rock bands borrowed musical ideas from classical, jazz, electronic, and experimental music. Progressive rock songs ranged from lush, beautiful songs to atonal, dissonant, and complex songs. By the late-1960s, German audiences began listening to progressive rock bands from Britain and the United States. During this period, avant-garde musicians in Germany were playing electronic classical music. By the early 1970s, German progressive rock (later called krautrock) bands were blending jazz (Can) and Asian music (Popol Vuh). In Italy progressive rock was also popular in the 1970s. Some Italian progressive rock bands were Premiata Forneria Marconi, Le Orme, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Area International Popular Group.

Although Pakistan has a long history of rock music producing legendary bands such as Junoon and Strings it was only in the 90s that progressive rock made its mark on Pakistani rock scene. Pakistani progressive rock is slowly gaining popularity and more bands are making this kind of music.

There are a few rock bands in India, like Silk Route or Euphoria. In Turkey progressive rock began to grow with Barış Manço in the mid-1970s. His symphonic-progressive rock album 2023, released in 1975, is one of the most important albums in Turkey. He made a contribution to the other genres of rock music with his other albums and became a famous rock star in Turkey.

Soft rock

Rock music had a short-lived “bubble gum pop” era, of soft rock, including groups such as The Partridge Family, The Cowsills, The Osmonds, and The Archies. Other bands or artists added more orchestration and created a popular genre known as soft rock.

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Folk rockThe folk scene was made up of folk music lovers who liked acoustic instruments, traditional songs, and blues music with a socially progressive message. The folk genre was pioneered by Woody Guthrie. The Byrds, who playing Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man, helped to start the trend of folk rock, and helped to stimulate the development of psychedelic rock. Neil Young’s lyrical inventiveness and wailing electric guitar attack created a variation of folk rock. Other folk rock artists include Simon & Garfunkel, Joan Baez, The Mamas & the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Bobby Darin and The Band.

In Britain, Fairport Convention began applying rock techniques to traditional British folk songs, followed by groups such as Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, Pentangle, and Trees.

Psychedelic rock

The 13th Floor Elevators titled their album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. The music increasingly became associated with opposition to the Vietnam War.

In England, Pink Floyd had been developing psychedelic rock since 1965 in the underground culture scene. In 1966 the band Soft Machine was formed. Donovan had a folk music-influenced hit with Sunshine Superman, one of the early psychedelic pop records.

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But it is. Whether or not that is good news or bad news is up to you. Chris Cornell has indeed paired up with beatmeister Timbaland for Cornell’s new album, Scream.

The response has not been generally good, as a lot of reviews have panned Chris Cornell’s latest enterprise, which is proof that even geniuses can make bad decisions. Online rating website Metacritic gave Scream a measly 3.5 out of 10 score, where the majority of reviews cited a hard time reconciling Chris’ rock roots to Timbaland’s obviously polar opposite beats.

But not all has been doom and gloom, as some reviews lauded Cornell for going out of his comfort zone, and said that at a certain level the Chris Cornell and Timbaland collaboration did work, as did Cornell’s earlier popularized rendition of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.

The smashing Pumpkins have been one of the fastest rising stars in the world of rock since they entered the scene in 1988. Known for their unique style, they have a sizable fan base all over the globe and many would miss him should he decide to go for real. The upcoming South by Southwest Music Festival is fast approaching nad it seems he won’t be part of the band when they get there. known for his exceptional skills as a drummer, bringing his groove into the band, he was initially ejected from the band in 1996 due to substance abuse. He was agin brought into the group in 1998 which was followed by the bands breakup with Chamberlin joining Corgan in the Zwan.
Chamberlin has gone solo with the release of his “Jimmy Chamberlin Complex”, that released the album “Life Begins Again” in 2005. They crossed paths when the band produced a reunion album “Zeitgeist” followed byt he band’s 20th year anniversary tour. Known for his drug problems, he and tour keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin both OD’d on heroin which led to the death of Melvoin, Jimmy was booted from the band and he was sent to rehab. He joined Corgan again in 98′ till the news of their breaking up got out.

News, Issues and Surprises from the rock world and beyond. The Rockers Hall of Fame has an unusual inductee this year, Madge?? Well, as it turns out one of the criterion for selection was that an album had to be released on a specific 1980 something date when she was on top of the world. Her breakup also stirs the world with a reported $74 mil payout. No problem for her, the ticket sales of her “Sticky and Sweet” concert tour sold tons of tickets. U2 announces the making of a new album, “No Line on the Horizon”, due to be released on March next year. Axl Rose, speaks against issues regarding the much awaited and criticized album “Chinese Democracy”. Prince also says he is releasing an album this coming year and many more to come.

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キアヌは2004年のデビューアルバム、「ホップス・アンド・フィア」で550万枚以上の売り上げを記録しました。 次のアルバム「アンダー・ザ・アイアンシー」では期待したほどの売り上げには達しませんでした。 売り上げは250万枚ほどでした。 グループにとって大きな失望でした。 また個人的問題、特にシンガー、トム・チャップリンのドラッグの問題が浮上し、バンドとしての危機となりました。 初アルバムが非常に良かったため、米国では巨大なファンベースが存在します。 セカンドアルバムで私達がツアーに一緒に行ったとき、ファンは増えていましたが、アルバムの売り上げは期待したほどではありませんでした。 これが彼らに打撃を与え、彼らが元通りになるまでしばし時間がかかりました。 現在、バンドは「パーフェクト・シンメトリー」で準備が整いつつあります。 この英国のバンドの最新アルバムで世界を制覇する予定です。 彼らは安全なアルバムを作りませんでした。 全力を尽くしたため、彼らの本当の姿を反映する音になっています。

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ロックスターと言えば、通常、ドラッグ、アルコール、セックスの同意語と思われています。ジョナス・ブラザーズに会って下さい。ジョナたちは、健全でアットホームなイメージで有名です。活動を開始して依頼、ずっとこのイメージのままです。兄弟は皆、福音派キリスト教の信者です。さらに、父親は以前牧師をしていたという事実もあります。母親が、学校に通わせず自宅で教育しました。最も驚く事には、全員がピュアリティー・リング（純正を誓う指輪）を左手の薬指にしており、婚前交渉も持たないことを誓いました。MTV ビデオ・ミュージック・アワードの主催者、ラッセル・ブランドがそれをからかいました。後にその発言を謝罪しましたが。ジョーは、言います。そのリングは、結婚するまで婚前交渉を自制することを神に誓った事を意味するものだと。このことは、従来の典型的なロックのイメージとかけ離れている事を示しています。彼らは、両親がその指輪をしたいか否かと尋ねた時から、付け始めました。全員が同意したのです。また、アルコール、煙草、ドラッグにも手をつけていません。

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Aerosmith is planning to return to the studio this coming 2009. A very long hiatus from the music scene. As you can recall, the band has not released an all new original material since 2001 with Just Push Play. The most recent release was in 2004’s Honkin On Bobo, which was a compilation of cover songs. The band hopes to change that this coming year. They actually have recorded some of the materials already, its just that, they haven’t gone to the studio, to do the finishing touches. Aerosmith suffered recent bad health in which their guitarist and lead singer, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler underwent surgery for leg injuries. Also, Tyler entered a California rehab to recover there.

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Keane sold over 5.5 million copies of their debut album in 2004 called “Hopes and Fears”. Its follow up album “Under the Iron Sea” didnt quite make it the way they expected it to be. Selling only 2.5 million copies. It was a huge letdown for the group. With this came personal problems, specifically, drug problems with the singer, Tom Chaplin, which almost derails the band. The band built up a huge fan base in the US and obviously, the first album did great. When we toured with the second album, the fans grew bigger but the album did not make that much sale as it was expected. That struck them low and took some time before they got their act together. Now the band is ready and in “Perfect Symmetry”. The British band’s latest album is set to conquer the world once again. They did not play safe. They gave all and this is quite the sound that they really are.