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Modern rock

Index Modern rock

Modern rock is an umbrella term describing rock music made between the late 1970s to present day. [1]

69 relations: Active rock, Alternative rock, Alternative Songs, Arcade Fire, Atlas Genius, Bastille (band), Billboard (magazine), Boston, Campus radio, Classic alternative, Classic rock, Coheed and Cambria, College rock, Da Capo Press, Dance-punk, Depeche Mode, Electronic dance music, Erasure, Folk music, Garage rock, Grunge, Hip hop, I Love the '80s (U.S. TV series), Imagine Dragons, Indie rock, INXS, Jack Johnson (musician), Jersey Shore, Junior Senior, Kings of Leon, KROQ-FM, Long Island, Los Angeles, Mainstream rock, Morrissey, Muse (band), New wave music, Nirvana (band), Noise rock, Nu metal, Of Monsters and Men, Pearl Jam, Post-grunge, Post-punk, Post-punk revival, Punk rock, Radio broadcasting, Radio format, Reggae, Rock music, ..., San Diego, Second British Invasion, Snow Patrol, Story of the Year, The 1975, The Black Keys, The Cure, The Mars Volta, The Neighbourhood, The New York Times, The Postal Service, Third Eye Blind, Twenty One Pilots, VH1, WFNX, WKMK, WLIR, XETRA-FM, Young the Giant. Expand index (19 more) »

Active rock

Active Rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Win's younger brother William Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara.

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Atlas Genius

Atlas Genius are an alternative rock band formed in Adelaide, South Australia in November 2009.

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Bastille (band)

Bastille (stylised as BΔSTILLE) are a British indie pop band formed in 2010.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Campus radio

Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.

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Classic alternative

Classic alternative is a radio format focusing on alternative music from the late 1970s to early 1990s, with particular focus on the early days of MTV.

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Coheed and Cambria

Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York, formed in 1995.

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College rock

College rock was the alternative rock music played on student-run university and college campus radio stations located in the United States and Canada in the 1980s.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Erasure

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of singer and songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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I Love the '80s (U.S. TV series)

I Love the '80s is a decade nostalgia television program that was produced by VH1, based on the BBC series of the same name.

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Imagine Dragons

Imagine Dragons is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of lead vocalist Dan Reynolds, lead guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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INXS

INXS (a phonetic play on "in excess") were an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Jack Johnson (musician)

Jack Hody Johnson (born May 18, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, documentary filmmaker and former professional surfer.

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Jersey Shore

The Jersey Shore is the coastal region of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Junior Senior

Junior Senior were a pop duo from Denmark.

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Kings of Leon

Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999.

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KROQ-FM

KROQ-FM (106.7 FM, 106.7 KROQ) is a radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mainstream rock

Mainstream rock (also known as heritage rock) is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations in the United States and Canada.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Muse (band)

Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Nu metal

Nu metal (also known as nü-metal and) is a subgenre of that combines elements of with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial and grunge.

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Of Monsters and Men

Of Monsters and Men is a five-member band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2010.

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Post-grunge

Post-grunge is a derivative of grunge and a style of alternative rock and hard rock that began in the 1990s.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Post-punk revival

Post-punk revival (also known as "new wave revival", "garage rock revival"J. Stuessy and S. D. Lipscomb, Rock and roll: its History and Stylistic Development (London: Pearson Prentice Hall, 5th edn., 2006),, p. 451. or "new rock revolution") is a genre of alternative rock and indie rock that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the 1980s.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is transmission by radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.

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Radio format

A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Second British Invasion

The Second British Invasion refers to music acts from the United Kingdom that became popular in the United States from the middle of 1982 into late 1986, primarily due to the cable music channel MTV.

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Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish rock band formed in 1994, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jonny Quinn (drums), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals).

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Story of the Year

Story of the Year is an American rock band formed in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2000.

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The 1975

The 1975 are an English rock band originating from Manchester.

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The Black Keys

The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001.

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The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976.

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The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta was an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001.

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The Neighbourhood

The Neighbourhood (sometimes rendered as "THE NBHD") is an American rock band formed in Newbury Park, California, in 2011.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Postal Service

The Postal Service was an American indie rock band from Seattle, Washington, consisting of singer Ben Gibbard, producer Jimmy Tamborello, and Jenny Lewis on background vocals.

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Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1993.

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Twenty One Pilots

Twenty One Pilots (stylized as twenty one pilots, and sometimes as twenty øne piløts) is an American musical duo originating from Columbus, Ohio.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.

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WFNX

WFNX was an alternative rock radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, that operated as a commercial broadcast radio station from 1983 until July 24, 2012, and as an internet-only stream from October 30, 2012 to March 19, 2013.

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WKMK

WKMK and WTHJ (106.3 and 106.5 FM, "Thunder 106") are two radio stations simulcasting a country music format.

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WLIR

WLIR (WLIR.FM) is an internet and over the air radio station (105.3 WPTY-HD3 Calverton-Roanoke, NY) that plays the new music/modern rock that was originally heard on WLIR/WDRE (92.7 FM, 98.5 FM, and 107.1 FM) in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s along with the alternative rock of the 2000s to the present.

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XETRA-FM

XETRA-FM (91.1 FM) — branded 91X, and sometimes identified as XTRA-FM — is an English language, Mexican-owned (border blaster) Alternative Rock music station broadcasting from Tijuana, Baja California on 91.1 MHz.

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Young the Giant

Young the Giant is an American rock band that formed in Irvine, California, in 2004.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_rock

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