It has a rock rhythm, but I put the blues back on top of it.

So, influenced by bands like The Young Gods, we wanted to take rock rhythms and turn them upside down.

Ms. Simon's delivery is openthroated folk crooning punched up with a strong sense of rock rhythm.

His "Cleveland" is cryptic and, despite the score's rock rhythms, arcane.

Sometimes he soloed over rock rhythms or funk.

The rock rhythm held them all in thrall.

Waits, however, is too idiosyncratic and too given to clangorous rock rhythms to get a lot of Americana play.

With the cajon, it became more like a rock rhythm.

Rhythm is the obvious though not the only one, and the particular impact of rock rhythms on contemporary composers has been overstated.

Instead, they relied on the sheer force of a simple rock rhythm beaten out of three drum kits simultaneously.