In addition, stations devoted to the pop music of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s on their own have developed as the audiences that grew up with that music grew older and nostalgic for the sounds of their youth.

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

As hardcore became the dominant punk rock style, many bands of the older California punk rock movement split up, although X went on to mainstream success and The Go-Go's, part of the Hollywood punk scene when they formed in 1978, adopted a pop sound and became major stars.

These bands perform a show that is designed to entertain the audience, but feature more traditional symphonic styles of music rather than contemporary music ( marches, film scores, jazz, or older pop music ).

Episodes often contain more or less hidden references to older pop culture ( especially noticeable in the episode " Meet the Beat Alls ").

Countless new bands sprang up in the mid-to-late 1960s, as rock displaced older, smoother pop styles to become the dominant form of pop music, a position it would enjoy almost continuously until the end of the 20th century, when hip-hop finally eclipsed it in sales.

" The series consists mostly of punk rock and pop punk bands from various eras, including older groups that experienced their heyday in the 1980s, later groups who rose to popularity in the 1990s, and younger acts that have formed or gained popularity in recent years.

In this era, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5 and club DJs like Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, and Marshall Jefferson played various styles of dance music, including older disco records, newer Italo Disco, hip hop and electro funk tracks, as well as electronic pop music by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and recent danceable R & B productions in the genre now known as boogie.

This was another one of their “ pastiche ” albums, blending original tunes with older ones, pop, jazz, funk, etc.

Anaïs ' older sister, Amanda Lameche, had already worked with Laila Bagge and had released a pop record in the United States.

Radio buttons were named after the physical buttons used on older car radios to select preset stations – when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons would pop out, leaving the pressed button the only button in the " pushed in " position.

" Although the occurrence of country crossing over to the pop charts goes back as far as the start of the Billboard charts in 1940, some critics began to be troubled by a trend toward what they perceived as pop music marketed as country ; they contended that radio was concentrating more on newer music while ignoring the more traditional styles of older artists such as Merle Haggard, George Jones and others who continued to record and release new material.

( Today, the term " orquesta ," simply meaning a large musical ensemble, is used to describe the pop merengue groups based on Ventura's and Vargas's models as well as the older Alberti style.

Upon talking about their new album, Vinnie mentioned his desire to " combine third wave ska and pop punk in each song ," hinting at a possible return to the band's older sound.

In Church's latest interview, she mentioned she would be ready to work on more music a few months after she was fully recovered from her second pregnancy, and Dexter was a little bit older, though was not sure whether she would further develop her classical career, her pop career, or both as she loves both genres for different reasons, and plans to work on both genres but needs to be in a creative state of mind to continue work on her second Pop album.

Savill went on to form Monster Movie, a dream pop group that has maintained much of the older Slowdive style.

Welk frequently had performers sing and play standards from the big band era and the first half of the 20th century ( Welk had a particular admiration for contemporaries Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer and similar composers ), although the show's repertoire was in reality much broader and would often include pop songs from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as well as country music, patriotic music, and religious music, especially if it was thought to appeal to older listeners ( and, as Welk stated in 1956, " as long as it's done in the champagne style ").

As a young girl, McCartney traveled the globe with her parents and their pop music group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather ( who was legally adopted by Paul McCartney ), older sister Mary, and younger brother James.

The attraction of the programme deftly crossed generational boundaries-younger viewers revelling in the appearance of their current pop stars, while older adults identified with the often anti-pop sentiments of the panellists from a non-musical or older background, confirming ' adult and youthful prejudices at the same time '.

The label pioneered the concept of reissuing older pop and rock hits, and sold millions of records on his Oldies But Goodies compilation albums, several of which made the national Billboard album charts.

It also marked the beginning of the shift in Manço's sound characterized with the heavy use of synthesizers and drum machine in contrast with his older works consisting of a group oriented rock based sound.

As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds of the Cretaceous are well identified but the exact ages of the system's top and base are uncertain by a few million years.

Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

As a result, xenoliths are older than the rock which contains them.

The principle of superposition states that a sedimentary rock layer in a tectonically undisturbed sequence is younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it.

Because deeper rock is often older, as noted by the principle of superposition, this can result in older rocks moving on top of younger ones.

Even older rocks, such as the Acasta gneiss of the Slave craton in northwestern Canada, the oldest known rock in the world have been metamorphosed to the point where their origin is undiscernable without laboratory analysis.

Repulsion, from Flint, Michigan, cited street punk groups like Discharge and Charged GBH, crossover thrash such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Corrosion of Conformity, thrash metal like Slayer, Metallica, Sodom, and Venom, and death metal ( Possessed ), hardcore punk, like Black Flag, and older hard rock, as inspirational.

The earliest known Indian paintings ( see section below ) were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, ( see above ) and some of them are older than 5500 BC.

The oldies and classic rock formats have a strong niche market, but as the audience becomes older the station becomes less attractive to advertisers.

The term roughly corresponds to the older basic rock class.

As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are slightly uncertain.

A rivalry developed between adherents of the new sound and the older punk rock crowd.

This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer.

The contrast between parental and youth culture exemplified by rock and roll was a recurring source of concern for older generations, who worried about juvenile delinquency and social rebellion, particularly as to a large extent rock and roll culture was shared by different racial and social groups.

Quartz grains evolve from plutonic rock, which are felsic in origin and also from older sandstones that have been recycled.

When sedimentation continues, an older rock layer becomes buried deeper as a result.

That new rock layers are above older rock layers is stated in the principle of superposition.

The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

Instruments made according to an older pitch standard, used principally in wind-band music, include Db piccolo, soprano flute ( the primary instrument, equivalent to today's concert C flute ), F alto flute, and Bb bass flute.

The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that.

Freestyle experienced another resurgence of popularity in the late 2000s, as older, well-known freestyle artists, producers and record labels released new music, and old and new freestyle artists performed at Philadelphia-area bars and night clubs.

Beck and his crew were able to obtain library music from a host of older films ( music tracks that had been composed by Henry Mancini, Hans J. Salter, and even a track from Heinz Roemheld ).

Classical music fans, who were opinion leaders in the audio market, quickly adopted LPs because, unlike with older records, most classical works would fit on a single LP.

Now, the older name is widely deemed offensive, but the term hillbilly music is still used on occasion to refer to old-time music or bluegrass.

But in the 20th century it made a resurgence, used in historically informed performance of older music, in new ( contemporary ) compositions, and in popular culture.

He looked to older music for inspiration in the art of counterpoint ; the themes of some of his works are modelled on Baroque sources such as Bach's The Art of Fugue in the fugal finale of Cello Sonata No. 1 or the same composer's Cantata No. 150 in the passacaglia theme of the Fourth Symphony's finale.

Depending on the music mix, it can play either relatively recent classic country tunes from the 1970s to the 1990s ( generally more favorable to advertisers ) or can span all the way back to the 1920s, thus playing music far older than almost any other radio format available.

In recordings, small errors in a performance could be " fixed ", but many older conductors and composers could remember a time when simply " getting through " the music as best as possible was the standard.

With the advent of the early music movement, smaller orchestras where players worked on execution of works in styles derived from the study of older treatises on playing became common.

However, as the new decade approached, Rush gradually began to dispose of their older styles of music in favour of shorter, and sometimes softer, arrangements.

While living in Odessa, Orbison drove to Dallas to be shocked at the on-stage antics of Elvis Presley, who was only a year older and a rising star in the music scene.