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Shiny Toy Guns
Shiny Toy Guns is a Grammy-nominated American rock band originally from Shawnee, Oklahoma, that formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They have released three versions of their first studio album We Are Pilots, which featured three singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs...
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic...
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- x Subgenres:
- Electronic dance music,
- Electronica
- x Artists:
- Boards of Canada,
- I-Sound and Daniel Raffel,
- Wendy Carlos,
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- I-Sound and Daniel Raffel,
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music.
The sound of rock often...
- x Parent genres:
- Rockabilly
- x Subgenres:
- Punkabilly,
- Glam rock,
- Psychobilly,
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- Glam rock,
- x Artists:
- The Police,
- Electrico,
- Alan Murphy,
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- Electrico,
Progressive rock
Progressive rock (also, prog or prog rock) is a subgenre of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."
Progressive rock bands pushed ...
- x Parent genres:
- Psychedelic rock,
- Blues-rock,
- Hard rock,
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- Blues-rock,
- x Subgenres:
- Progressive metal,
- Alternative metal,
- Art rock,
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- Alternative metal,
- x Artists:
- The Raspberries,
- GARNET CROW,
- Tiles,
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- GARNET CROW,
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not...
- x Parent genres:
- Techno,
- House music,
- Experimental classical music,
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- House music,
- x Subgenres:
- Dubtronica,
- Chiptune,
- Glitch,
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- Chiptune,
- x Artists:
- Broken Radio,
- Kraftwerk,
- Orbital,
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- Kraftwerk,
Synthpop
Synthpop is a subgenre of pop and electronic music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It originated during the New Wave era of the late 1970s and to mid-1980s, and it has continued to exist and develop ever since.
Synthpop...
- x Parent genres:
- New Wave,
- Industrial music,
- Pop music,
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- Industrial music,
- x Subgenres:
- New Romantic,
- Techno,
- Detroit techno,
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- Techno,
- x Artists:
- De/Vision,
- Monolithic,
- Lowe,
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- Monolithic,
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. The term is often used to describe the means of production and distribution of independent underground music, as well as the style of music...
- x Parent genres:
- Psychobilly,
- Post-punk,
- Rock music,
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- Post-punk,
- x Subgenres:
- Alternative metal,
- Geek rock,
- Grunge music,
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- Geek rock,
- x Artists:
- The Shins,
- Texas Is the Reason,
- Constantines,
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- Texas Is the Reason,
Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the...
- x Parent genres:
- Post-punk,
- Rock music,
- Hard rock
- Rock music,
- x Subgenres:
- Shoegazing,
- Funk metal,
- Alternative metal,
- more ▼
- Funk metal,
Synthpunk
Synthpunk (also known as electropunk) is a music genre combining elements of electronic rock and punk rock. The term invented by Damian Ramsey in 1999 as an attempt to retroactively identify a small sub-genre of punk music from 1977–1984 that...
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- x Artists:
- The Units,
- Brainiac,
- Primitive Calculators,
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- Brainiac,
Post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a music genre that evolved from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups who emerged from the hardcore punk scene, or took...
- x Parent genres:
- Hardcore punk,
- Heavy metal,
- Post-punk,
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- Heavy metal,
- x Artists:
- The Sleeping,
- Lights Below,
- Kill Sadie,
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- Lights Below,
Synth rock
Synth rock is a descriptive phrase applied to the work of a variety of musical artists. Principally, these artists share in the use of intentionally artificial sounds, produced through synthesizer, sampler and drum machine. The term "synth rock"...
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- x Subgenres:
- x Artists:
- Deadstar Assembly,
- The Birthday Massacre,
- Project Pitchfork,
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- The Birthday Massacre,
Dance-punk
Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk and indie-dance) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and no wave movements.
Many groups in the post-punk era adopted a more rhythmic tempo,...
- x Subgenres:
- x Artists:
- Goose,
- Fake Shark - Real Zombie!,
- You Say Party! We Say Die!,
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- Fake Shark - Real Zombie!,
Post-punk revival
The post-punk revival is a development in alternative rock of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in which bands take inspiration from the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk of the late 1970s.
New Wave music of the 1980s has also...
- x Parent genres:
- Indie rock,
- Britpop
- x Subgenres:
- x Artists:
- The School,
- The Prids,
- The Rakes,
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- The Prids,
Experimental rock
Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique.
Performers may also attempt to...
- x Parent genres:
- Rock music
- x Subgenres:
- Math rock,
- Post-rock,
- Noise rock
- Post-rock,
- x Artists:
- No Doctors,
- Tub Ring,
- Old Time Relijun,
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- Tub Ring,
New Prog
New prog (occasionally referred to as "nu prog" or "post-prog"/"post-progressive") is a term used to describe a number of recent alternative rock bands who incorporate elements from progressive rock.
Most notable bands described as new prog include:...
- x Parent genres:
- Progressive rock,
- Psychedelic rock,
- Alternative rock,
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- Psychedelic rock,
- x Subgenres:
- x Artists:
- Amplifier,
- Pure Reason Revolution,
- Chris Wolstenholme,
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- Pure Reason Revolution,
