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The Cars, the Glossary

The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976.^[1]

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1976 establishments in Massachusetts
1988 disestablishments in Massachusetts
2010 establishments in Massachusetts
Musical groups reestablished in 2018

Alberto Vargas

Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982) was a Peruvian-American painter of pin-up girls.

Arista Records

Arista Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Beatitude (album)

Beatitude is the debut solo release by Ric Ocasek, lead singer and principal songwriter of The Cars.

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Benjamin Orr (born Benjamin Orzechowski, September 8, 1947 – October 3, 2000) was an American musician, bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars. The Cars and Benjamin Orr are Elektra Records artists.

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Berklee College of Music

The Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blue Tip

"Blue Tip" is a song by the American rock band The Cars from their 2011 album Move Like This.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brandon Flowers

Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American musician.

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Bubblegum music

Bubblegum (also called bubblegum pop) is pop music in a catchy and upbeat style that is marketed for children and adolescents.

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Bye Bye Love (The Cars song)

"Bye Bye Love" is a song by the American Boston-based rock band The Cars.

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Candy-O

Candy-O is the second studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on June 2, 1979, by Elektra Records.

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Cars 2

Cars 2 is a 2011 American animated spy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Change No Change

Change No Change is the first and only solo album released by Elliot Easton of The Cars.

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Clash (magazine)

Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom.

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Complete Greatest Hits (The Cars album)

Complete Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by American rock band the Cars, released on February 19, 2002, by Elektra Records and Rhino Records.

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Concord Music Group

Concord Music Group was an American independent music company based in Beverly Hills, California, with worldwide (including the U.S.) distribution through Universal Music Group.

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Concord Records

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) was a folk-rock supergroup comprising American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

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David Robinson (drummer)

David Robinson (born April 2, 1949) is a retired American rock drummer.

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DMZ (band)

DMZ was a first-wave American punk rock/garage rock bands from Boston, Massachusetts, strongly influenced by 1960s garage rock. The Cars and DMZ (band) are 1976 establishments in Massachusetts, musical groups established in 1976 and musical groups from Boston.

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Door to Door (album)

Door to Door is the sixth studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on August 25, 1987, by Elektra Records.

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Double Life (The Cars song)

"Double Life" is a single by the American rock band the Cars from their second album Candy-O. Written by Ric Ocasek, the song was almost left off the album.

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Drive (The Cars song)

"Drive" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984).

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Drum kit

A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Elliot Easton

Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg, December 18, 1953) is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the American new wave band the Cars.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.

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Good Times Roll

"Good Times Roll" is a song by American rock band the Cars released as the first track from their 1978 debut album The Cars.

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Gov't Mule

Gov't Mule (pronounced "Government Mule") is an American Southern rock jam band, formed in 1994 as a side project of the Allman Brothers Band by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody.

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Greatest Hits (The Cars album)

Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by American rock band the Cars, released on October 25, 1985, by Elektra Records.

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Greg Hawkes

Gregory A. Hawkes (born October 22, 1952) is an American musician who is best known as the keyboardist and founding member of the American new wave band the Cars.

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Hear Music

Hear Music was a record label that was founded in 2007 in a partnership between Concord Music Group and Starbucks.

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Heartbeat City

Heartbeat City is the fifth studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on March 13, 1984, by Elektra Records.

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Hello Again (The Cars song)

"Hello Again" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their album Heartbeat City (1984).

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Hole (band)

Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1989.

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It's All I Can Do

"It's All I Can Do" is a song by the American rock band the Cars.

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Jacknife Lee

Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer.

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Jonathan Richman

Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Just What I Needed

"Just What I Needed" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their self-titled debut album (1978).

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Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology

Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology is a two-disc, career-spanning compilation album of songs by the American new wave rock band the Cars.

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Kasim Sulton

Kasim Sulton (born December 8, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure.

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Let's Go (The Cars song)

"Let's Go" is a song by American rock band the Cars, written by Ric Ocasek for the band's second studio album, Candy-O (1979).

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Live Aid

Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.

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Magic (The Cars song)

"Magic" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984).

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Mainstream Rock (chart)

Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine that ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations in the United States, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.

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Martin Mull

Martin Eugene Mull (August 18, 1943 – June 27, 2024) was an American comic actor whose career included contributions as a musician and painter.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Move Like This

Move Like This is the seventh and final studio album by American rock band the Cars, released on May 10, 2011.

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Moving in Stereo

"Moving in Stereo" is a song by the American rock band The Cars.

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MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year

The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the most prestigious competitive award and the final award presented at the annual MTV Video Music Awards.

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MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

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My Best Friend's Girl (song)

"My Best Friend's Girl" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their 1978 self-titled debut album on Elektra Records, released on June 6 of that year.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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Niagara Falls (Greg Hawkes album)

Niagara Falls is the first solo album released by Greg Hawkes, best known as an original member of the Cars.

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No Doubt

No Doubt is an American rock band formed in Anaheim, California in 1986.

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Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass.

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Panorama (The Cars album)

Panorama is the third studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on August 15, 1980, by Elektra Records.

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Paramount Records (1969)

Paramount Records was a record label started in 1969 by Paramount Pictures (then a unit of Gulf+Western) after acquiring the rights to the name from George H. Buck.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Pease Air National Guard Base

Pease Air National Guard Base is a New Hampshire Air National Guard base located at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in New Hampshire.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music.

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Power pop

Power pop (also typeset as powerpop) is a subgenre of rock music and form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.

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Prairie Prince

Charles Lempriere "Prairie" Prince (born May 7, 1950) is an American drummer and visual artist.

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Proto-punk

Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Ric Ocasek

Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Robert Palmer (American writer)

Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Rock Band (video game)

Rock Band is a 2007 rhythm game developed by Harmonix, published by MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Sad Song (The Cars song)

"Sad Song" is the lead single by the American rock band the Cars from their 2011 studio album Move Like This, and the second to last single put out in their lifetime, discounting reissues ("Free" would be their last, and did not chart).

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Scott Shriner

Scott Gardner Shriner (born July 11, 1965) is an American musician best known as a member of the rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded twelve studio albums.

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Shake It Up (The Cars album)

Shake It Up is the fourth studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on November 6, 1981, by Elektra Records.

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Shake It Up (The Cars song)

"Shake It Up" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fourth studio album of the same name (1981).

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Since You're Gone

"Since You're Gone" is a song by the American rock band the Cars.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Syncro Sound

Syncro Sound was a recording studio in Boston, Massachusetts, active from 1981 through 1986.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011

The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 is a set of eleven concerts in the United States and Canada featuring the newly reunited American band The Cars.

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The Killers

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas in 2001 by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards, bass) and Dave Keuning (lead guitar, backing vocals).

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The Lace

The Lace is the only solo studio album by American rock and roll singer Benjamin Orr, best known for his work with the Cars.

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The Modern Lovers

The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s. The Cars and the Modern Lovers are musical groups from Boston.

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The New Cars

The New Cars were a band formed in 2005 by two of the original members of the 1970s/1980s new wave band the Cars. The Cars and the New Cars are American new wave musical groups, American power pop groups, musical groups from Boston and rock music groups from Massachusetts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cars

Also known as Cars (band), The Cars (band).

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See also

1976 establishments in Massachusetts

1988 disestablishments in Massachusetts

2010 establishments in Massachusetts

Musical groups reestablished in 2018

References