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Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include saxophone, harmonica, violin, flute, French horn, banjo, melodica, and timpani. Also, less common stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar are used. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around the guitar, either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic.

Rock music has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which evolved from blues, country music and other influences. According to the All Music Guide, “In its purest form, Rock & Roll has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody. Early rock & roll drew from a variety of sources, primarily blues, R&B, and country, but also gospel, traditional pop, jazz, and folk. All of these influences combined in a simple, blues-based song structure that was fast, danceable, and catchy.”

In the late 1960s, rock music was blended with folk music to create folk rock, blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion, and without a time signature to create psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that emerged in the 1980s included synthpop, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.

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July 2008
Thursday 24 July 2008
Rush	Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis, United States	11 people attended 1 shout
Today (Friday 25 July 2008)
The Police Elvis Costello & The Imposters	Marcus Amphitheater Milwaukee, United States	9 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Dave Matthews Band Ingrid Michaelson	Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis, United States	13 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Tomorrow (Saturday 26 July 2008)
The Police Elvis Costello & The Imposters	DTE Energy Music Theatre Clarkston, MI, Detroit, United States	14 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Dave Matthews Band Ingrid Michaelson	Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis, United States	10 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Sunday 27 July 2008
Bruce Springsteen	Giants Stadium East Rutherford, NJ, New York, United States	28 people attending 1 shout