Colossus marks a departure from the relatively traditional pop-rock sound of RJD2's 2007 album, The Third Hand.
Kirshner was also instrumental in the development of The Monkees, first conceived in the mid-1960s as a made-for-television pop-rock band.
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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While initially dismissive of the genre, Pope says now that she sees many similarities between it and her more familiar pop-rock.
"Once" may earn the same special status by doing something similar, albeit on a more intimate scale -- using pop-rock songs to shape its characters' ecstatic feelings.
Elsewhere, "Adigbedoto" by Gnonnas Pedro glides on reverb-sozzled guitars that seem to owe as much to the Peruvian pop-rock style known as chicha as it does to any Beninese tradition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Newman, the Canadian band New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.
With songs that mash together dark psychedelia, sunny chamber-pop and heroic prog-rock riffs, the album builds slowly from introspective beauty to fiery intensity.
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.
The EP's five tightly crafted pop songs can be sugary sweet, but subtle hints at psych-rock and noise-pop give the sound a rich flavor.
On the band's sophomore album, Congratulations, psych-rock and pop continually knock heads without a synth in sight.
Since the mid-'90s, Imperial Teen has been known for its blend of garage-rock, new-wave and shimmering pop-punk.
The band Bon Jovi has been labeled many things: metal, rock, pop -- but how about country?
Rickelton and Crow formed Noble Three in the Summer of 2007, combing their shared love of '60s pop and mid-'90s rock.
At the base of his sound is mbalax, Senegal's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing music, filtered through Afro-Cuban, pop and rock sensibilities.
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 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.
Work is a lovely collection of streamlined indie-rock, delicate orchestral pop and intimate fireside balladry.
Naked' is coinciding with an increase in demand for guitar-based rock and quality pop, it is hoped that this new appeal to the young will be enduring.
An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
This editor found the treble to be much to bright for his tastes -- especially with rock and pop tracks, it became quite jarring unless we toned it down with Google Music's EQ.
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"Listen In" sounds like an acid-rock song filtered through bright pop sensibilities.
Elements of post rock, garage and synth-pop round out their music which relies heavily on narrative songwriting.
Inara George is known to pop audiences as the lilting voice behind the indie-rock duo The Bird and the Bee.
They make a gleeful racket, smashing together French chanson, American garage rock, and Beatle-esque pop, with Casio keyboard vamps and quirky computer sampling.
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