How To Use Rockers In A Sentence
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From 80s synth poppers to black-leathered stadium rockers, Depeche Mode are nothing if not resilient.
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The Toronto art-rockers have a tendency to go for the extreme, whether it is a lavishly orchestrated children's record or a rock opus telling the story of the Group
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It was a pleasant surprise when they reconvened to record 1997's For Those In Peril From The Sea, a classy collection of upbeat rockers, jangly pop tunes and introspective balladry.
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She wants to remodel her house and garden and sit on one of the white rockers on her front porch.
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Veteran rockers Queen, along with Razorlight and Simple Minds, will top the entertainment line-up.
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They jump effortlessly from new wave-tinged rockers to Queen-like bombast to stunning Beatlesque ballads to jazzy art-pop, without losing their touch with hooks that lodge themselves in your cranium and refuse to let go.
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Classic drama about a young mod whose life is changed by a clash between his friends and rockers on the beaches of Brighton.
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Norwegian punk rockers blur the lines of rock, metal and punk rock with their own creation, death punk.
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I know, I know… But seriously: get very caned, watch it, and bear in mind that it's not a film about gay glam rockers that uses faerie imagery, it's a film about faeries that uses gay glam rock imagery.
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There was the icy refusal to be claimed by folkies, protesters, rockers, popsters or, indeed, anybody.
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The parties he threw were as eclectic as music itself; visitors would sometimes find grungy rockers eating traditional Italian meals prepared by his mother.
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You see, rockers are creative guys and often produce their best work when there are emotional pressures in their lives.
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Western models were often followed; mods and rockers, skinheads, punks, and hippies all found their Soviet imitators.
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Irish rockers U 2 bask in glory after clinching all three of the biggest Grammy prizes.
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Garage rockers Side Effect took to the Internet last year to rustle up enough money to release their debut album without relying on the conservative record labels that dominate the music scene here among the crumbling, mildewed buildings of Myanmar's commercial and artistic hub.
Sanctions Put Rock Band in Hard Place
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Weekenders trace their roots to the mods and rockers' bank holiday rave-ups on the south coast in the Sixties.
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Apparently, to this day, a gullible section of society believes in the existence of these British rockers.
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The rockers moved to Los Angeles to record their new album earlier this year.
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The rockers are still at the top of their game 18 years after the release of their seminal debut album Ten.
The Sun
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While it's as difficult to overgeneralize about punk rockers as it is about any collective group, there are common traits.
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The veteran rockers summon the American singer once again to be their Freddie for the night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every summer for the last five years, this northern Scandinavian city has brought together airheads, headbangers and rockers for the competition.
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The disc's third documentary short resurrects the happening '80s music that propels the movie's soundtrack, including several of the rockers who recorded it.
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I play lead guitar for legendary heavy metal German rockers The Scorpions.
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In order to stay away from these images, I will leave you with this: Think innovative punk rockers with safety pins through freshly pierced ears.
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The boys listened to the heavy metal band Slipknot and progressive rockers The Mars Volta, studied the form of meditative movement called tai chi, and watched and discussed movies.
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Welcome return for the American southern rockers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ravers danced, the normals tapped their feet and the rockers looked a little perplexed.
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Nine artists - ranging from electronic acts, folkies and experimental rockers - gather on this album to pay tribute to Black Sabbath.
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Now a testament to the broad-minded nature of today's canvas-dwelling youth or evidence of the deep divides that separate music fans, the event compiles performers into day-by-day categories: hard rockers, tried and tested indie heavyweights and People's Choice favourites, bills which alternate between Reading and its sister venture in West Yorkshire.
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These four mysterious rockers have produced some of the most beloved music of our time.
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Grunge has been a recurrent theme in fashion since the early 1990s, when rockers like Cobain transformed kilts, moth-eaten sweaters and lumberjack plaids into the insignia of yuppie revolt.
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Singing along with all those indie rockers seems to have tried his patience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Point to young rockers: they are not living in a mansion with a limo in the bedroom with gold-plated champagne spigots in the backseat Jacuzzi; nor do they have a stable of foxy groupies waiting in the van.
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But the old rockers are clocking up the ailments too.
The Sun
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Other songs have ageing rockers dying unmourned and a would-be suicide weighing up the pro's and con's of life.
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Critics say a museum is just the place for wrinkly rockers who show no signs of fading away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Andy's performance was especially impressive, as the diminutive axeman shifted from chunky rockers to white-soul wah-wahs with effortless dexterity.
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Two weeks ago it was announced the bassist had split from the glam rockers over " musical differences".
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Welder" ranges stylistically from acoustic barnyard romps ( "All the Time") to bluesy Southern rockers ( "El Camino") to a torchy ballad worth of Opry star Jeannie Seely.
Album review: Elizabeth Cook, "Welder"
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With that in mind, I'd like to take this opportunity to salute my three favorite loony rockers of all time.
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But "Parazit" had a barful of friends waiting - Iranian underground rockers, poets and artists who have fled the country in recent years and settled in New York and Washington.
The Jon Stewarts of Iran
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The photogenic New Wave mannequins and hair metal rockers that the channel enjoyed such success with in the '80s were being replaced by grunge and alternative artists.
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By the mid-60s two distinct clans clashed on bank holidays: the clean-cut mods in their fish-tail parkas, who listened to R 'n' B and the Who on their scooters and the rougher rockers on their motorbikes.
Is music tribalism dead?
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As their second LP looms, the indie rockers play a few solo gigs before hitting the festival circuit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pioneering prog rockers are the subject of two films tonight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the new dress codes and hairstyles of rockers, mods, or hippies became suspect.
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So there we were, with these quite butch ladies asking 'Are you one of those punk rockers?
Times, Sunday Times
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Ertegun, a jet-setting sophisticate and sybarite who was hipper than his competitors, proved irresistible to rockers and their managers, and he landed the best and bestselling of the British bands including Cream, Led Zeppelin, and ultimately the Rolling Stones.
Fortune’s Fool
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Their protean sound lifts them above the legions of second-rate math rockers who think it's enough simply to noodle around with shifting time signatures and obscure chords.
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During the tour, the press vilified the rockers as bad-mouthed, loud, gaudy and unkempt.
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Germany is a looking-glass land for rockers, a place to slip personae and assume new guises.
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I loved seeing Adam emerge from the crowd of whiteb read but I fear AI will lean towards a flock of emo rockers and screaming teens and that will be sooo not good.
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Singing along with all those indie rockers seems to have tried his patience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Expandable sealers are used in critical spots in the pillars and rockers, and balloon weather seals at the rearmost hood edges prevent engine noise from escaping toward the cabin.
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From bubblegum popsters such as Blue and Atomic Kitten to revered rockers like Bob Geldof and Van Morrison, virtually every musical taste gets an outdoor show thrown in its honour between now and the end of August.
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American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
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He is one of the most underrated rockers of the 20th century, an enormously talented musician whose misfortunes have completely eclipsed his importance in modern music.
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The quietly foreboding clean guitar and sparse drums point to Pallbearer's comrade in bleakness, Loss, as the first plunge into sludgier territory offers a deafening wink to Pallbearer's fellow Little Rockers in
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The overhead valves (one intake and one exhaust for each cylinder) are operated by pushrods and rockers from the camshaft, which is mounted in four bearings in the crankcase.
Undefined
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The row sparked a rift between the wrinkly rockers.
The Sun
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But he found that around 20 years earlier the same things were written about the Teds, Mods and Rockers.
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Alternating between smoothly intoned mid-tempo rockers- dressed up with synth organs and tastefully overdriven guitar jangle- and smoothly intoned slow dance heart warmers that get a lot closer to Diane Warren territory than befits the man who wrote "Silver".
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Nevertheless, to the mods and the rockers who travelled down from London on weekends and bank holidays, Brighton must have seemed like the most exotic of destinations, a world away from the smoggy capital.
Brighton: the grit and the glamour
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From one end of the town to the other clotheslines, dining-room chairs, porch rockers and upstairs bedrooms are overflowing with silk foulards, frilled dimities, beribboned and belaced organdies, not to mention the billows of dotted swiss and muslin.
Green Valley
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Aussie dance rockers combine dreamlike synth and driving guitar to good effect.
The Sun
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Sam did several music videos, often surrounding himself with big name rockers.
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Taking my own highly scientific survey of my immediate cluster of video gaming family members, I come up with an average age of 34.8, about 60% of whom are at least moderately overweight and 80% of whom are pretty well off their rockers (although scoring higher in the study's "neuroticism" and "psychoticism" demographics than we do with "depression" -- but with .2 years still to go, there is still a chance we will make it).
Jared Gardner: Video Gamers at the End of History
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From hand-made Boston rockers with hand-turned spindles, designers turned to cantilevered cane-backed chairs made of tubular steel.
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The rockers are still at the top of their game 18 years after the release of their seminal debut album Ten.
The Sun
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The throngs of rockers packing into the Tequila Lounge on Friday night didn't seem to care that the show was being put on as a ‘blatant marketing ploy’ by the Toronto Star.
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His costumes are being made by the same tailor who designs clothes for rockers Kasabian.
The Sun
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Classic drama about a young mod whose life is changed by a clash between his friends and rockers on the beaches of Brighton.
The Sun
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From hand-made Boston rockers with hand-turned spindles, designers turned to cantilevered cane-backed chairs made of tubular steel.
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What is it about soundtrack projects that makes hard rockers want to change their tune?
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The ravers danced, the normals tapped their feet and the rockers looked a little perplexed.
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The LoneTones, "Canaries" -- Fuzz, dissonance and reverb have been employed by roots-rockers like My Morning Jacket and Neil Young for years, so it should be no surprise that Appalachian outfit The LoneTones employ those elements with equal dexterity.
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We were all in a break crew called Soul City Rockers at the time.
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The duo will have to see off rockers MGMT to take home the pize.
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In the current climate of money-grubbing gangstas, fake rockers and endorsement-laden rap-metalers, this album is like a welcome breath of hate in a world of posers and wannabes.
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However, it is believed the glam rockers will attract large numbers of former British residents who now work and live in the Arab state.
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` Mods and rockers were years and years ago,' Cherry said.
PROSPECT HILL
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Critics say a museum is just the place for wrinkly rockers who show no signs of fading away.
Times, Sunday Times
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As their second LP looms, the indie rockers play a few solo gigs before hitting the festival circuit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The soundtrack disc includes vintage rockers by Sweet and Girlschool and new songs by Creeper, a band fronted by the one and only Dean.
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TRIBAL LEADERSTeddy Boys, Mods and RockersIn drape jackets, drainpipes and creepers, Teddy boys roamed the streets as rock 'n' roll took root in Britain.
Is music tribalism dead?
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It would have been easy for me to give up and say I can't be bothered to be sniped at any more about wrinkly rockers and all of that.
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In a night of unprecedented nostalgia the rockers, the jivers and the waltzers descended on the ‘ballroom of romance’.
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With British music in the grip of acid house, and long before the term grunge was in popular use, a trio of musicians from Seattle played the Astoria at the bottom of a bill featuring fellow plaid-shirted rockers TAD and Mudhoney.
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Rockers were found on cradles as early as the fifteenth century.
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Nobody's doubting his sincerity, but if he ditched even some of the throwaway lite rockers, he'd be a far edgier and ultimately more appealing prospect, even if you couldn't take him home to meet mum any more.
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And rockers don't get rockier than AC-DC's axeman, Angus Young: ‘I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same,’ said Young recently.
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Performing will be rockers Ash Black and Thrust, accompanied by the latest in rubbery attire provided by Hydra.
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On the new record, Plant and his musicians, led by Nashville stalwart Buddy Miller, duly take a come-all-ye approach, rewiring songs both ancient (there's a 19th-century hymn) and modern (a couple by indie rockers Low) to Plant's rootsy specifications.
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The rockers have moved on since the cover for their 2003 debut album.
The Sun
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Apparently produced primarily by young adults, it rarely panders to commercial generational stereotypes - no lounging, lip-ringed bohos or faux angry punk rockers.
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The formula in brief: mid-tempo rockers and acoustic weepers with tasteful violin, banjo or other country accoutrements.
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They just happen to be the best rockers in the whole effing world.
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The two ageing rockers cure all the world's ills over beans on toast in a grubby bedsit.
The Sun
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The music industry may be in a frenzy over them, but stadium rockers they are not.
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It was designed to be the cleanest, warmest sounding guitar possible for jazz and country musicians, but it only achieved its true popularity when it began to be played loudly and with mammoth distortion by rockers and bluesmen.
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‘You're supposed to be gnarly rockers, you're not supposed to sing happy birthday’ he mocks, but secretly you know he's pleased.
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Weekenders trace their roots to the mods and rockers' bank holiday rave-ups on the south coast in the Sixties.
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Earle's audience is a combination of alt-country, Texas fans who have stayed with him on his eccentric ride, roots rockers, and adventuresome folkies.
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There was the icy refusal to be claimed by folkies, protesters, rockers, popsters or, indeed, anybody.
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To remedy that, and give one last nod to summer, here's one of Gershwin's most famous songs, recorded by crooners and rockers, rappers and balladeers: Summertime.
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GLASTONBURY (AFP) - Indie rockers Blur returned to the Glastonbury festival Sunday for the first music that included Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young.
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None of the crossover Scandinavian rockers sing in their native tongues, but Sweden's biggest band does.
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But the four are also behind a campaign aimed at protecting the copyright of old rockers.
The Sun
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It would have been quite sluttish to come back firing like a bunch of hard rockers.
Chuck Klosterman on Rock
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Glam rockers Scissor Sisters were the first musical act of the evening, backing professional dancers Cheryl Burke and Jesse DeSoto as they mamboed to ‘Take Your Mama’.
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Well-known Fresno hard rockers Six Ounce Gloves are back in town after playing a label showcase at Los Angeles 'Key Club last weekend.
Home
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The track list could do with more stadium fillers, but this is still the new must-have game for armchair rockers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another title followed, announcing Hot Rockers, after which the first short began.
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Irish rockers U 2 bask in glory after clinching all three of the biggest Grammy prizes.
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He refused to be pigeon-holed by the folkies, the protesters or the rockers.
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What is it about old rockers that they can tell a story just like ringing a bell?
Times, Sunday Times
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William spends most of the movie chasing his interview, encountering a colorful crew of roadies, rockers, and groupies - pardon, ‘band aids.’
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The mix also featured songs from Vampire Weekend, a worldbeat-infused group of Ivy League rockers that recently released its debut, self-titled album.
The First Cuts Are the Deepest
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Jurado comes off like the Springsteen of indie rock, utilizing his ragged throat and commanding presence for both hooky rockers and solemn weepers.
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It was an era when official news bulletins were worrying themselves about mods and rockers, or the hallucinogenic drugs of the hippies.
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And, in a day of sound-alike rap rockers and indistinguishable pop-leaning pretty boys, it's not often that a band comes out with the confidence and talent to take musical risks like this quintet does.
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THIS is what happens when former punk rockers grow up.
The Sun
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Did it just pass by the mods 'n' rockers battling on the seafronts at Brighton, Bournemouth and Great Yarmouth?
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The pioneering prog rockers are the subject of two films tonight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their self-deprecating wit, aw-shucks harmonies, and obsession with intoxicating spirits bring to mind Texas roots rockers the Gourds.
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The religious rockers make many professions about the Lord Jesus Christ but as soon as the music starts, a transformation occurs as they are taken over by the spirit of Elvis Presley.
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Nobody's doubting Baxter's sincerity, but if he ditched even some of the throwaway lite rockers, he'd be a far edgier and ultimately more appealing prospect.
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Punk-rockers, ventriloquists' dummies, clowns, and show-business celebrities have taken the place of the preacher - and they are degrading the gospel.
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She's an outspoken fan of Jeff Buckley and the kind of arty alt rockers he inspired.
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In the summer of 1555 an ornate cradle was prepared and rockers appointed.
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He was so impressed with their gig, he wants the American rockers on board at the nuptials.
The Sun
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The band proved too heavy for all but the most adventurous indie rockers and far too weird for the average metalhead.
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The pantheon of legendary female rockers and rappers is woefully small.
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The pantheon of legendary female rockers and rappers is woefully small.
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-- Being founded upon a rock, it does not care, in its collective capacity, to sit upon rockers, but has an immense series of warehouses, omnivorous and eupeptic, which swallow all manner of tithes, from grain and horseshoes to the less stable commodities of fresh fish and melons, assimilating them by admirable processes into coin of the realm.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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Her new album ‘South’ is a mixture of rootsy soul inspired music, a couple of rockers and a few electronic influences.
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I've successfully managed to sidestep these southern-fried snooze-rockers thus far, and on this evidence it seems I've dodged a very boring bullet.
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Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party.
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Particular thanks go to the Summerland Rockers who jived and rocked their hearts out to a very appreciative audience.
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The Canadian rockers have ditched the punk element of their music, leaving melodic hard rock with an energetic pop appeal.
The Sun
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The rockers were made of wood, their dark varnish scuffed and scraped.
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Now with members from Kasai Allstars calling themselves Congotronics, the band are touring as part of a 19-strong troupe of musicians including singer songwriter Juana Molina and alt-rockers Deerhoof, to support their recent Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers collaboration album.
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The authorities argued that the black-shirt wearing, baseball-capped rockers were peddling satanism and debasing the morality of youth.
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The rockers preach rigour, and rail against easy accommodations with the hosts of Midian constantly prowling around.
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The Darkness The glam rockers promise good times with cheesy but fun hits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wrinkly rockers have been teasing fans over the last few days - with huge tour details to come today.
The Sun
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With a new album out, the indie rockers take on the arenas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aside from the blunt-edged rockers, Smitten features an equally repellant set of languid piano pop.
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The Irish rockers captured the crowd's attention from the moment they took the stage, through sheer force of sincerity.
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The original mods were more interested in watching French art movies than decking rockers, and they shared a sensibility, if not a dress sense, with the beatniks who hung around the same Soho coffee shops.
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With a new album out, the indie rockers take on the arenas.
Times, Sunday Times
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While already rightly revered as bratty garage rockers by the time of this track's release, the Kinks truly excelled when singer Ray Davies took a more observational, wry approach to songwriting -- and "Sunny Afternoon" is one of his wriest on record.
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