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Classic Rock is kind of a tough category to pigeonhole. True, it's a brand of oldies rock, but fifties music doesn't qualify (too old) and, to purists at least, neither does most eighties music (too new). If you find this at all confusing, you are hardly alone.

Broadly defined, classic rock is music that was first popularized during the FM Rock era of the late sixties and seventies. The cut-off, if there is one, comes at roughly the same time that the MTV era began (although many also consider bands of the same period like U2, R.E.M., and Dire Straits as classic rock).

Mostly, though, classic rock is a radio format created by onetime FM Rock radio programmers who found themselves in a time warp when they didn't expand their playlists beyond groups like Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, and the Stones. Other classic staples include Boston, Bad Company, Bruce Springsteen, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Who.

As a radio format, classic rock remains hugely viable and such stations as Seattle's KZOK regularly top the ratings in their markets. You'll find classic rock fans talking about their favorite music at blogs like Classic Rock Central, Layla's Classic Rock and Classic Rock Revisited.

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  • Now That’s What I Call Classic Rock


    Manuel Marino / Music, Arts, People, Ideas — Authority Authority: 128
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  • Free and Bad Company’s Simon Kirke at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp


    Guitar International Magazine — Authority Authority: 463
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  • Alternative Series: GUILT MONKEY (Belgium)


    Air Guitar — Authority Authority: 98
    THE MONKEY ON YOUR BACK Since Saturday morning, I have been dancing around my bedroom like a Buffoon on speed to a track called “Rage” off the  début  album, Crash and Burn from a little known band called Guilt Monkey . Surprisingly, they’re not metal (my preferred ...
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  • Cool New Music: Jonathan Wilson


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    Some more new music that sounds a lot like good old music . American musician and producer Jonathan Wilson makes the kind of psychedelic folk rock reminiscent of the classic folk rock sound of the golden era of the 60s and 70’s. It’s laid back rock music at its best that reminds me a bit of America ...
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  • Peter Green`s Fleetwood Mac


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  • Mountain Guitarist Leslie West Honored with a VPG MV-1


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  • CRTC Approves Golden West App For Radio In Fort Sask – But With A Twist #yegradio


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    ( photo - Razvan Caliman / flickr Creative Commons ) Late last July I submitted an intervention to the CRTC concerning a new radio station in Fort Saskatchewan that Golden West was trying to get approved. My main opposition was the format they were choosing – classic rock – which is a completely inundated and ...
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  • Van Halen Preps For 2012 Tour with New Album Release Looming


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  • VAN HALEN Confirms New Album and Tour


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  • Sinead O’Connor To Make NYC and L.A. Concert Stops


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  • KARX FM 95.7 The Kar


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  • Music Makes Housework Tolerable


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  • Jimmy Page: Rock & Roll Birthday


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