California is commonly associated with the film, music, and arts industries; there are numerous world-famous Californian musicians. New genres of music...

California Music was an American rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1974. It was originally a loose collective of studio musicians...

California Music Channel (CMC) is an American music video broadcast television network based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the longest running...

The California sound is a popular music aesthetic that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the early 1960s...

California College of Music (abbreviated CCM) is a for-profit, contemporary popular music school in Pasadena, in Los Angeles County, California. The institution...

referred to interchangeably with the "California sound". During the later stages of the surf music craze, many of its groups started to write songs about...

new wave bands. In the early 1980s in California, hardcore was the dominant form of punk and aggressive music. Notable hardcore bands active in that...

"I Love You, California" is the state song and regional anthem of the U.S. state of California, originally published in 1913. It was adopted in 1951 and...

hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States. West Coast...

[sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American...

"California Love" is a song by American rapper 2Pac featuring fellow American rapper-producer Dr. Dre and American singer Roger Troutman of the funk group...

gangsta rap's pioneers include Schoolly D of Philadelphia and Ice-T of Los Angeles, later expanding in California with artists such as N.W.A and Tupac Shakur...

Compromise of 1850. Notable contributions to popular culture, ranging from entertainment, sports, music, and fashion, have their origins in California. The...

of California, Los Angeles was founded in 1882 as the southern branch of the California State Normal School. It joined the University of California system...

The most general definition of music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content...

AllMusic". AllMusic. "AllMusic 'Made in U.S.A' awards". AllMusic. "quick question..California Dreamin'". smileysmile.net. "quick question..California Dreamin'"...

pop (originally known as soft pop) is a subgenre of pop music that originated in Southern California in the mid-1960s. Rooted in easy listening and advertising...

May 7, 2010. "California Gurls" is composed in styles of disco-pop, funk-pop and bubblegum pop while bearing influence of new wave music and electropop...

crossover thrash. California punk bands like Black Flag, Adolescents, and Circle Jerks paved the way for skate punk with their "fast and raw" music, "which replicated...

school in the Castle Heights neighborhood within the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is in the Los Angeles Unified School District...

"Hotel California" is a song by American rock band Eagles, released as the second single of their album of the same name on February 22, 1977. Songwriting...

rebellious music." According to Robert Christgau, punk "scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth...

Most of the officially designated symbols of the state of California are found in sections 420–429.8 of the California Codes. List of California-related...

punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock...

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest...

as nü-metal) is a subgenre of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative...

Paisley Underground is a musical genre that originated in California. It was particularly popular in Los Angeles, reaching a peak in the mid-1980s. Paisley...

University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded...

Top-40 singles, a cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" and "Smokin' Me Out". Although the majority of G-funk music has come out of California, the overall sound has...

Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. "Liner Notes - Hotel California (The Eagles)". "Hotel California – Eagles...