Formed in 1985 from the ashes of Split Enz, the Australian band Crowded House recorded some of the most appealing pop-rock singles of the late '80s and early '90s, before breaking up in 1996.
More and more singer-songwriters from the pop world seem to be hearing that siren song: The trickle of pop and rock stars turning to the stage is fast becoming a flood.
Joe Jonas, a member of the popular pop-rock trio, the Jonas Brothers, is in third place with a score of 92.
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By the end of the 1960s the trend was for pop and rock groups to write their own music, instilled with their own essence yet mindful of the world surrounding them, and The Beatles, along with other artists such as Bob Dylan, were perhaps the most influential to that end.
It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
Colossus marks a departure from the relatively traditional pop-rock sound of RJD2's 2007 album, The Third Hand.
While the categories honored at the VMAs still include video of the year, best new artist, best video in the hip-hop, pop or rock genres and many others, the award show has become a celebration of the MTV family of programming and of the youth that it entertains.
The first is that much of the music is better crafted than its reputation suggests but also much more tied to the conventions of pop and rock 'n' roll.
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According to figures from the Recording Industry Association of America, for instance, the share of the two biggest genres, rock and pop, fell from 62% in 1988 to 45% a decade later.
The pair's primitive, mutated fusion of pop, rock, and dance sounds practically pushes listeners' fists into the air with its heavy beats and unforgettable hooks.
With his sparse, deep and atmospheric production, "The Invisible Way" (Sub Pop) emerged as one of the duo's best albums, merging rock's concentrated authority with a folk- and countrylike presentation of duo vocals.
He was given the nickname the "King of Pop" -- a spin on Elvis Presley's status as "the King of Rock 'n' Roll" -- and few questioned the moniker.
Newman, the Canadian band New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.
The youth culture of the 1960s may have promoted sexual license, but glam rock was the first mainstream pop movement to trade on androgyny and sexual ambiguity.
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Kirshner was also instrumental in the development of The Monkees, first conceived in the mid-1960s as a made-for-television pop-rock band.
Randall Roberts, pop music editor of the Los Angeles Times, says that because rock residencies last an entire month, there's time for bands to build serious word of mouth.
The singles "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff" took this disco-rock fusion to the top of the pop charts, while the slow-dance "Dim All the Lights" revealed more of Donna Summer's personality than her earlier hits.
They wanted to distill the essence of epic rock into short, soulful pop tunes.
What Rabbi Luft objects to so vehemently is not just contemporary, western music - rock, rap or pop - but the use of modern instruments and beats in the tunes of orthodox singers like Lipa Schmeltzer.
Though Sonic Youth never achieved mainstream pop-music success, its members are recognized as pioneers of the alternative rock scene a band that helped break ground for groups such as Nirvana and Hole.
Since her separation, Hunter has been linked with pop star Robbie Williams and singer Wes Scantlin from the rock band Puddle of Mudd.
The two performances were the latest in an annual series of benefit concerts with pop-rock performers to support Jazz at Lincoln Center, which in previous years has featured Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Paul Simon.
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But even with a name like Dark Night of the Soul, the album has uplifting moments, with catchy pop and rock hooks.
Just as quickly as it begins, the song transitions into a lighter, cheerier chorus and then jets forward once again, turning "Petrula the Destroyer" into an unexpected roller coaster that, like much of Pontus, the Devil, and Me, travels successfully between multiple pop-rock moods and styles.
"The commission of this opera ... was to inspire and invite him (composer Him Sophy) to bring his own voice of the ancient Khmer sound into his own score that married his traditions with western pop and rock tradition, " Burt said.
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Rickelton and Crow formed Noble Three in the Summer of 2007, combing their shared love of '60s pop and mid-'90s rock.
They veer between Khmer pop, film noir soundtrack, surf rock and folky, teenybopper hit parade fare, right out of the late '60s.
There's a crop of young American acts approaching the genre less as ethnomusicology and more like pop, from the hip-hop collage approach of New York's Balkan Beat Box to the emigre garage rock of Los Angeles' Dengue Fever, who headlined the festival's final night.
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