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Columbia/Roadrunner/Island Def Jam/Sony Music Soundtrax released “Spider-Man (Music From and Inspired By)” on Tuesday, April 30. “Spider-Man,” the live action motion picture released by Columbia Pictures in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the classic graphic character’s Marvel Comics debut, made its way into theaters nationwide on Friday, May 3.

“Spider-Man (Music From and Inspired By)” is a collection of music written and performed by a generation of musicians influenced by the power and mystery of the Spider-Man character, his conflicts and his adventures. The album’s lead singles and videos are “What We’re All About (The Original Version)” from Sum 41 featuring a guitar solo from Slayer’s Kerry King; and “Hero,” a new track from Nickelback vocalist/guitarist Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott (the vocalist from Saliva), written for the film by Kroeger.

Traditionally, books on the history of rock music begin by defining rock music as the meeting of country music and rhythm’n'blues, which is roughly correct.

However, this definition is out of touch with today’s rock music. Today, rock music is a genre that employs sampling techniques, electronic instruments, digital/computer technology, cacophony, and ethnic sources (beyond African-American and Anglo-Irish).

It was Chuck Berry who invented rock and roll in 1955. Berry was a black man playing black music. But times had changed: white kids were listening to rhythm and blues throughout the Northeast, and white musicians were playing rhythm and blues side to side with country music. Rock and roll was inherited by white singers, such as Presley, who often performed songs composed by obscure black musicians. White rockers became gentler and gentler, thereby drowning rock and roll’s very reason to exist.

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In the mid 80’s in Seattle, Washington, the birthplace of “grunge” with bands like Nirvana, Melvins, Mudhoney Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam to name a few.  But it was Nirvana and Pearl Jam that the movement came to the forefront of mainstream success and thus became the spokespersons of Generation X, which is Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. Grunge bands combined guitar rock with punk and metal to give birth to a new movement. The Grunge Rock Alternative Seattle sound by the mid 90s, Grunge moved from a local sound in Seattle through national and international venues and became a part of the musical vocabulary of most subsequent bands. Most modern musicians owe a debt of gratitude to those plaid wearing teens from Seattle.

Grunge is the embodiment of the tagline “WHICH PART OF WE HAVE NO MONEY DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?”

As Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam said, “when commerce is involved, everything changes”.

Now with Grunge Music rising it sprang up grunge fashion

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the city of Seattle was the center for a growing high-tech industry second in size only to California’s Silicon Valley. The city became home for the thousands of young, upwardly mobile professionals (”yuppies”) who worked for gigantic companies such as Microsoft and Amazon. So-called “grunge” fashion developed as a reaction to their chic, dressed-up style by the city’s anti-establishment youth. In deliberate antithesis to the corporate look, Seattle’s young people began to favor the torn jeans, clunky boots, and plaid flannel shirts of Washington State’s lumber country.

Now, These are some Grunge bands now listen to their music, enjoy it.. be grunge…

• 7 Year Bitch
• Alice in Chains
• Babes in Toyland
• Blood Circus
• Green River
• Gruntruck
• Hammerbox
• Hole
• L7
• Love Battery
• Mad Season
• Malfunkshun
• Melvins
• Mono Men
• Mother Love Bone
• Mudhoney
• My Sister’s Machine
• Nirvana
• Paw
• Pearl Jam
• Pond
• Screaming Trees
• Skin Yard
• Soundgarden
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Tad
• Temple of the Dog
• The Fluid
• The Nymphs
• The U-Men
• Truly

As of late, a genre that has come to be known as “indie rock” is emerging. It has come to be characterized by overall low production quality and unconventional songwriting. The Shins. Death Cab for Cute. The Strokes. These are bands that have come to be associated with the genre.

But what is indie rock, really?

Put simply, indie rock is an abbreviation of independent rock.

To be a little more detailed about it, indie rock refers to rock bands that are not under contract with a major label (Sony-BMG, EMI, Warner Music, etc…). Their music is either self-released (independent) or they are signed to a label that is independent of a major label.
So… More than anything else, “indie” is an umbrella term that pertains to unsigned or indie label bands.
But, as always, the term is evolving and may eventually be associated with a particular sound. Even if the bands are on a major label.
When that happens, at least, you know where indie rock came from.

They are the one who changed the music forever. They are the one who shakes our father’s head and made our mother’s hips swing to the crazy music they invented.

And their great songs passed from generation to generation; in fact I saw some bands following their footsteps from their tuxedo to their eyeliners.

Here I present to you the top 4 best rock bands ever.

1. The Beatles. I remember I had a collection of their music I pinched from my father’s arrays of long playing albums. They are undeniably the greatest and the most famous band ever in rock history.

The Beatles produced great amount of joys that hits the face of throng of people with the consciousness that happiness and high spirits were not only possible but with them around, it is inevitable.

2. The Rolling Stones. I didn’t realized that their single “ I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)” was launched in 1965 because I heard the songs during 80’s and people that time were into that song . My cousin together with his band who used to jam in our place loves to play this song and we kids are having fun sneaking in their music room.

The Rolling Stone are English band whose music was based in rhythm and blues and rock & roll.

When The Beatles didn’t play music anymore their title as “The World’s Greatest Rock ‘n Roll band fell with the little arguments on the Stones.

3. U2. They were formed in 1976, young and with limited musical know-how it was in the 80’s that they become the top international act. Their success as a live act wasn’t greater than their success in selling record though but when they launched their album “The Joshua Tree, they become “heroes to superstars” according to Rolling Stones.

4. The Grateful dead. This American band was formed in 1965. though they became vital body in the psychedelic movement based out of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The band was famous for its exceptional and diverse style, which combined elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelic, space music and gospel—and for live performances of long musical improvisation.”Their music,” according to Lenny Kaye, “Touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.”

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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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