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2024 In Rock Music
This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year 2024. Notable events January * The British all-female indie rock band The Last Dinner Party is named the BBC Sound of 2024. Shortly after, they release their debut studio album, ''Prelude to Ecstasy''. The album not only debuts at number one on the national all-format UK albums chart, but its sales is the highest debut album from a musician in almost a decade. * Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate announces that their US bassist Joey Vera is leaving, after several years as stand-in for the late Timi Hansen. * Green Day releases their 14th studio album, '' Saviors''. It is the band's first in four years, and first in twelve years to be recorded with record producer Rob Cavallo, who previously produced '' Dookie'' (1994) and '' American Idiot'' (2004). ''Saviors'' tops the UK all-format albums chart, their fifth album to do so. In the US, the album debuts at number 4 on the US all-format ''Billboard'' 200 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
