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Croatian tamburica music

Croatian tamburica music is the folk tradition of eastern Croatia played on tambura string instruments, centered on Slavonia and known for the UNESCO-listed bećarac song form.

Crocodile Rock

Crocodile Rock is a 1972 Elton John and Bernie Taupin single about a fictional 1950s dance craze, his first US Billboard Hot 100 number 1 (three weeks from February 3, 1973) and a UK number 5, from Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player.

Crooked

"Crooked" (삐딱하게) is a 2013 song by South Korean rapper G-Dragon, released by YG Entertainment as the title track of Part 2 of his second album Coup d'Etat.

Crooked Colours

Crooked Colours is an Australian electronic music project from Fremantle, Western Australia, formed in 2013, with platinum singles and over one billion streams; albums include Vera and Langata.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) is the second studio album by American indie rock band Pavement, released on Matador Records. Also known for the 2004 reissue LA's Desert Origins, it features "Cut Your Hair", "Gold Soundz", and "Range Life" and peaked at #121 on the US chart.

Crookers

Crookers is an Italian electronic music act founded in Milan in 2003 by Phra and Bot, best known for their remix of Kid Cudi's "Day 'n' Nite", which reached number two in the UK.

Crooner

Crooner: a singer, usually male, performing sentimental songs or jazz standards in a soft, intimate, close-miked voice. Style born with the 1920s electrical microphone and radio; peak era late 1920s to early 1950s; figures include Rudy Vallée, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra.

Crop Over

Crop Over is Barbados' summer festival of music, masquerade, and culture, revived in 1974 from plantation harvest celebrations and culminating in the Grand Kadooment street parade in Bridgetown.

Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)

Crosby, Stills & Nash (album), the 1969 Atlantic debut by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash; folk rock with three-part harmonies, No. 6 Billboard, 4x platinum, featuring Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y), the 1968 Los Angeles supergroup of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Neil Young, famed for vocal harmonies, Déjà Vu (7x platinum), 'Ohio,' and repeated breakups and reunions until 2015.

Cross (Justice album)

Cross (†) is the 2007 debut album by French electronic duo Justice (Gaspard Augé, Xavier de Rosnay) on Ed Banger/Because Music; a 12-track, 48-minute 'disco opera' with D.A.N.C.E., Genesis, and Stress, Grammy-nominated and reissued in 2022.

Cross Canadian Ragweed

Cross Canadian Ragweed: Oklahoma Red Dirt band formed 1994 (Cody Canada, Grady Cross, Jeremy Plato, Randy Ragsdale); Soul Gravy hit No. 5 country; split 2010; 2025 reunion sold 180,000+ tickets.

Cross Purposes

Cross Purposes is Black Sabbath's seventeenth studio album, released January 31, 1994 on I.R.S. Records; the only Martin-era album with Geezer Butler, featuring Eddie Van Halen uncredited on Evil Eye, remastered in 2024.

Cross Road Blues

Cross Road Blues ("Crossroads") is a 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson, recorded November 27, 1936 at San Antonio's Gunter Hotel for Vocalion, famous for the crossroads-devil legend and Cream's 1968 cover.

Crosses (band)

Crosses (†††/‡‡‡) is the American dark wave electronic side project of Deftones singer Chino Moreno and Far's Shaun Lopez, formed 2011; EPs, a 2014 self-titled album, then the 2023 Robert Smith- and El-P-featuring second album.

Crossfaith

Crossfaith (クロスフェイス) is a Japanese electronic metalcore band formed in Osaka in 2006, blending metalcore with hard electronics and playing Western festivals like Download and Warped Tour.

Crossover thrash

Crossover thrash, also called punk metal, is a fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk that emerged in the mid-1980s; the name comes from D.R.I.'s 1987 album Crossover, with key bands including Suicidal Tendencies, S.O.D., Municipal Waste, and Power Trip.

Crossroads Guitar Festival

Crossroads Guitar Festival: Eric Clapton's benefit concert series for the Crossroads Centre Antigua addiction treatment facility. Seven editions since 1999 (first as Eric Clapton & Friends at Madison Square Garden); 2026 held September 26-27 at Moody Center, Austin.

Crowbar (American band)

Crowbar is an American sludge metal band formed in 1990 in New Orleans, Louisiana, built on slow, heavily downtuned riffs around founding member Kirk Windstein.

Crowded House

Crowded House is an Australian-New Zealand rock band formed in Melbourne in 1985 by Neil Finn, Paul Hester, and Nick Seymour, known for "Don't Dream It's Over," the 1996 Sydney Opera House farewell, the 2007 reformation, and albums Dreamers Are Waiting (2021) and Gravity Stairs (2024).

Crowder (musician)

Crowder is the stage name of David Crowder (born 1971, Texarkana, Texas), a contemporary Christian musician, formerly frontman of the David Crowder*Band (1996–2012), now a solo artist on sixstepsrecords known for country-gospel crossover albums like Neon Steeple and Milk & Honey.

Crown Magnetar

Crown Magnetar: American deathcore band from Colorado on Unique Leader Records, blending brutal and technical death metal; albums Everything Bleeds (2023) and The Hollowing of Godflesh (2026), EPs Alone In Death and Punishment.

Crown the Empire

Crown the Empire (Crown The Empire) is an American metalcore band formed in 2010 in Dallas, Texas, on Rise Records, known for concept albums The Fallout and The Resistance and now a duo of Andy Leo and Brandon Hoover.

CRSSD Festival

CRSSD Festival is a biannual electronic music festival focused on house and techno, held each March and September at Waterfront Park in San Diego since its 2015 debut.

CRSSD Festival 2017

CRSSD Festival 2017 was the fifth and sixth editions of the twice-yearly house-and-techno festival held at Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego, headlined by Flume and Chromeo.

Cruel Summer (Bananarama song)

"Cruel Summer" is a 1983 synth-pop song by the British group Bananarama that reached No. 8 in the UK and became their first US top ten hit in 1984.

Cruel Summer (GOOD Music album)

Cruel Summer is a 2012 hip hop compilation album by Kanye West's label GOOD Music, its debut release as a collective, featuring Pusha T, Big Sean, and Jay-Z.

Cruel Summer (Taylor Swift song)

Cruel Summer: Taylor Swift synth-pop song from Lover (2019), written with Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent; a 2019 album track that reached Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 2023 via the Eras Tour and TikTok.

Crunk

Crunk is a Southern hip hop subgenre from Memphis and Atlanta nightclubs, built on heavy bass, shouted call-and-response chants, and club energy, popularized nationally by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz and peaking in the early-to-mid 2000s before influencing trap and snap music.

Crush (Bon Jovi album)

Crush is the seventh studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released in 2000. Powered by the hit "It's My Life," it topped charts in the UK and Australia.