Spanish rock

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Music of Spain
Andalusia	Aragon
Balearic Islands	Basque Country
Canary Islands	Castile, Madrid and Leon
Catalonia	Extremadura
Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias	Murcia
Navarre and La Rioja	Valencia
Genres: Classical - Flamenco Jazz - Folk - Hip hop - Opera - Pop - Rock
Timeline and Samples
Awards	Amigo Awards
Charts	AFYVE
Festivals	Benidorm, Eurovision, Sonar
Media	Fans, La Revista 40, Mundo Joven

Spain has produced a great variety of rock and roll, but the most distinctive style may be flamenco-rock. Flamenco-rock is a fusion of flamenco, the folk music of the Spanish Gypsies, with progressive rock. Some of the most well-known examples of this scene from its 1970s heyday are the bands Smash, Crack, Gotic (Escenes, 1977), Iman Califato Independiente (Iman Califato Independiente), Iceberg (Coses Nostres), Mezquita and Triana.

There have also been a number of acts, primarily from Galicia, who have incorporated the Celtic musical heritage of that region into Celtic rock.

Spain's largest and oldest rock music scene is in Barcelona (and in nearby areas of Catalonia), closely followed by Madrid. There are also large scenes in the large cities of the Basque Country such as Bilbao and San Sebastián, and in Valencia, but bands and venues exist throughout the country.

New groups had born, adopting a punk style and dude composing about concrete things. More modern groups like Marea, La Fuga, Mägo de Oz, Extremoduro, Reincidentes, Los Rodríguez, the classic band Héroes del Silencio, and other mixed styles with ska (Ska-P) are the most listened. Another world-wide famous spanish rock band are Hombres G which had it's greatest period on the eighties.

Lately, there has been a rise in pop-rock artists and bands from all over Spain. Bands like La Oreja de Van Gogh who hail from Donostia, San Sebastien in Northern Spain, Murfila who is from Barcelona , Amaral who are from Zaragoza, and other bands have incorporated several different genres into their pop-rock structure of music.

Since the 1980's there have also been quite a few rock bands singing in the other languages spoken in Spain. They are most often labeled as Rock català (Catalan rock), Rock en aragonés (Rock in Aragonese), etc.