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Glam Rock Means Efficient

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Glam rock, also coined as glitter rock, which has initially surfaced in the UK in early 1970s is referred to as a stylish, glamorous, exotic, brilliant, slightly androgenic style of commercial music. Glam performers distinguish themselves with glamour ambisexual-inspired costumes, colourful make-up and men underwear.

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Pearls Before Breakfast

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Washington Post run this experiment a few years ago. The question was "Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?"

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Pearls Before Breakfast

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Washington Post run this experiment a few years ago. The question was "Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?"

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Pearls Before Breakfast

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Washington Post run this experiment a few years ago. The question was "Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?"

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This Video Will Make You Smile ;)

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At least Jesus Diaz is fully confident in it. Here is what he wrote about this video in his blog:

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The British Invasion Phenomenon

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Britain is one of the most notorious countries on the Music Olympus. You ask why?

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Indie: Music For Freedom Lovers

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Indie, shorthand from independent, is coined to be a number of genres and subcultures to be independent from the commercial pop music and mainstream culture. For many of its artists Indie rock is unsigned or signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels.

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Music Inside Us

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Everyone of us has music inside. And it is not an abstract statement, but scientifically proved fact. Molecules of DNA "sound" inside us and it is very important if music from outside is in keeping with music inside us.

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Bizarre Fantasy Rock

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Rock music’s development was influenced by fantasy-fiction literature. As the result a fantasy rock trend emerged on the music scene. It mainly combines elements of metal and it’s subcultures, including heavy metal, black metal, pagan metal and others. The power–fantasy metal is peculiar of academic vocal, light guitar tunes and application of "fantasy" instruments as violin, and flute.

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2sleepy - The Fog

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Fan clipart by WS for 2sleepy song "the fog" from the new album "art fraud".

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"Straight Edge": Music or Lifestyle?

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The Straight Edge or simply abbreviated the "sXe" of "sXe" is coined a subculture to represent a particular lifestyle. It advocates abstinence from tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drug use-especially psychoactive and stimulant drug use. Some straight edger’s also abstain from promiscuous sexual behavior and caffeine.

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William S. Burroughs N' Kurt Cobain - The "Priest" They Called Him

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The "Priest" They Called Him (1992) is a collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana). Cobain provides dissonant guitar backing based on "Silent Night" and "To Anacreon in Heaven" to Burroughs' deadpan short story reading.

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Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries

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Fujiya & Miyagi's David Best sings, "Like pixilated scraps of jazz mags in your headlights," and voilà: this Michel Gondry-indebted video directed by Wade Shotter of the London-based Factory Films. The images in the video are pixilated (they are composed of dice, after all), but they're less pornographic (SFW) than the rest of the lyric.

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Chemical Brothers - Do It Again

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Do It Again is a true return to the innovative creativity that the duo have been delivering for over a decade. This was the first single from the album We Are The Night and is sure to turn heads and open minds with vocals by Ali Love. The single calls upon classic acid and Detroit techno with warehouse sensibilities.

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7 Songs with Fewer Than 35 Words

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1. "Fly, Robin, Fly" by Silver Convention has only 6 unique words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VFoo57BXvg

2. "Hava Nagila" is a traditional Jewish melody with only 10 words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6RuURE9Y44

3. "Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes" performed by Beck has only has 20 unique words in it

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All-time Top 10 Rock Songs

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1. The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965)
A brutal, cheeky, swaggering rejection of everything that middle class society held dear -- "I'm just not SATISFIED with any of this crap" -- fueled by one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time and Charlie Watts' implacable on-the-beat drumming. Simply undeniable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGWfLiEoG98

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Aphex Twin - Aparatus

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Björk - Wanderlust

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Nearly a year in the making, the Bjork’s video for Wanderlust, directed by Encyclopedia Pictura, is finally here.

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