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Recent Examples of rocker
Nu metal band Korn and progressive metal band Gojira will headline Saturday’s concert lineup, and metal band Bring Me The Horizon and industrial metal rocker Marilyn Manson will take the stage as headliners Sunday.
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Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
In the days that followed Springsteen's first TIME and Newsweek cover releases, the rocker, now 76, recalls feeling the attitudes towards him shift.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
The Grammy-winning rocker and '80s icon has since changed his tune, using his public performances as a musical soapbox to rebuke the president's conduct and policies.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
But somehow, without the brass, this actually turned into the night’s most effective all-out rocker, extended into a jam that left the mod setting of the storyline for something that felt a bit closer to the psychedelic era by the end.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
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Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
In the days that followed Springsteen's first TIME and Newsweek cover releases, the rocker, now 76, recalls feeling the attitudes towards him shift.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
The Grammy-winning rocker and '80s icon has since changed his tune, using his public performances as a musical soapbox to rebuke the president's conduct and policies.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
But somehow, without the brass, this actually turned into the night’s most effective all-out rocker, extended into a jam that left the mod setting of the storyline for something that felt a bit closer to the psychedelic era by the end.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rocker
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Arguably the most famous depiction of Ophelia in pop culture in recent years is the 2019 film Ophelia, which reimagined Hamlet from Ophelia’s point of view, with Daisy Ridley starring as Ophelia.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Under that partnership, Swift grew from a precocious country songwriter into a global pop star.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Swift is known for her devastating track five ballads.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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The wedding ballads can wait; this nasty jam should still get the dancefloor packed in the meantime.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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Very tricky, because this was a lullaby version of the song, rather than the original one (which opens with a piano sequence).—
Kris Holt,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Melanie's artistry from Greenwich Village to Woodstock to lullabies For Melanie, creativity occupied the broadest and most all-encompassing spectrum.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Endurance athlete Colin O'Brady, celebrated internationally in 2018 as the first person to traverse Antarctica solo and unassisted, is returning to the unforgiving continent for an even more arduous trek.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Sixteen years passed — an eternity by rap’s standards — as Pusha T became a successful solo artist and label executive while Malice took a hiatus from rapping to pursue his faith.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2025
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Ygot said the death toll in Bogo was expected to rise as workers rushed heavy equipment to a mountain village where a landslide buried shanties and boulders blocked rescue efforts.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Behind her, a cluster of pastel shanties houses Rain Barrel Village, an open-air market and artist haven for more than 40 years.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Aug. 2025
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Like Rose, Cravalho uses her powerful vocals in the series, singing to keep the beast under her charm.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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A bit of storytelling in the music, without talking about lyrics or vocals.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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During the past decade, Tranter has established himself as one of the music industry’s most reliable hitmakers, thanks to his clever, boisterous lyricism and dramatic, over-the-top choruses and hooks.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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And that’s really the chorus of The Fighter.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Boyle is a great example of what Carthy was talking about, the originator of an oral history and a certain type of folk song, passed by word of mouth around a fanbase and through generations.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Set in early-1960s New York City, the film follows a folk song singing Minnesotan with a guitar and a dream, rising from a coffeehouse performer to a counterculture legend.—
Hannah Kerns,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Rocker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rocker. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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