Rock
A number of popular rock bands of the mid- to late-1990s got their start in Florida. Two of the most notable of these are Rock/Alternative/Post-Grunge band Matchbox Twenty, who originate from Orlando, and rock band Creed, who hail from Tallahassee.
Usually associated with what has become known as the new wave of popular alternative music is Chris Carrabba and his band, Dashboard Confessional from Boca Raton. Dashboard Confessional quickly became popular with their pop rock music in the early 2000s. His former band, Further Seems Forever, is also a popular indie rock band from Pompano Beach.
Marilyn Manson was created in the city of Fort Lauderdale, where they were discovered by Trent Reznor who went on to produce their debut album, "A Portrait of An American Family".
Platinum-selling pop punk band New Found Glory are from Coral Springs, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
The band Less than Jake is from Gainesville, Fl.
Shinedown hails from Jacksonville, Fl
Alter Bridge is from Orlando, Florida.
Read more about this topic: Music Of Florida
Famous quotes containing the word rock:
“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can’t even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)
“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church...”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 16:18.
“Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now.... [The Nazis] have made it clear that not only do they intend to dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to enslave the whole of Europe, and then to use the resources of Europe to dominate the rest of the world.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)