Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s.

"Rock and roll" can refer either to the first wave of music that originated in the US in the 1950s prior to its development into "rock music", or more broadly to rock music and culture. For the purpose of differentiation, this article deals with the first definition.

In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music. It went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply "rock music" or "rock".

Rock&Roll (band)

Rock&Roll is an indie rock band from Paris, France, formed in June 2005. The band is made up of singer Gricha Berekachvili, drummer Paul Louis Viguier, bassist L.A.M.F, guitarist Matthias Cadeac d'Arbaud and tambourine man Vincent-John Soimaud. In 2006, the band released their first EP, First Class Plane. The cover was shot by Chanel designer, Karl Lagerfeld. In 2006, Les Inrockuptibles, a French rock music publication equivalent to Rolling Stone, elected them Best New Band of 2006 from a pool of roughly 7000 contestants.

The band was signed in January 2007 to David Sonenberg's management company after gigs in New York City. Then the band toured twice the United States. In September 2007, they released their second EP album entitled Losers, Boozers, Jacuzzi Users. The music video for the title track of the EP was directed by SKINNY.

Roberto Cavalli hired them as models to be the face of his Spring 2008 line. Additionally, the band has just finished shooting an episode of The Hills, in which they will gueststar as themselves. This episode is slated to air in 2008.

Rock @ Roll

Rock @ Roll is the seventh album by the Croatian rock band Aerodrom, released through Croatia Records in 2007. The album marked the band's 30th anniversary, which they celebrated at a New Year's Eve concert in Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb. Jurica Pađen wrote all of the music and lyrics, except for "Fait Accompli", a song co-written with Branimir Štulić and dedicated to John Lennon.Rock @ Roll was recorded as a trio with new drummer Slavko Pintarić 'Pišta'. The album included four new singles, "Mili moj anđele", "Tvoj pas me čudno gleda", "Kći starog vodeničara" and "Odma mi je zapela za oko".

Track listing

All music and lyrics written by Jurica Pađen, except track 12 music by Jurica Pađen and Branimir Štulić, all arrangements by Aerodrom.

Personnel