However, it received mixed reviews: Pitchfork Media called it "flat and dead", while Allmusic called it "a refreshingly retro rock & roll album"

Visitors to the site are greeted with background music ranging from retro rock to contemporary metal, and a screen that includes idea lists and articles and videos about surviving freshman year.

Gothabilly style is a tongue-in-cheek play on 1950s-inspired kitsch aesthetics of the rockabilly subculture, but with a dark gothic influence, blending retro rock and roll fashions with the somber features of goth.

Electro Morocco is a four-piece band based in Brooklyn, NY, which can best be summed up as a mixture of energetic electro beats with a Middle Eastern flavor, a pop edge and some retro rock.

The Dance Cave caters to the alternative rock crowd, playing retro rock, Mod, '60s, Britpop, and indie rock during the week, and straight alternative on the weekends.

Musically, the album is the most centred between the low-fi and hip hop eras of Soul-Junk; as put by CCM Magazine "trip-hop meets folk meets retro rock."

It has been described as a "psychedelic plunge into retro rock and modern grunge" by Larry Flick of Billboard Magazine, and it is noted for having a particularly "loud" sound.

The song was a retro rock 'n' roll offering with a 1950s flair.

Her mother's favorite music videos were soft rock, retro rock, country and Western, disco.

The group has a carefully cultivated reputation for mayhem, but it's hard to seem like the world's most dangerous band when you're playing messy retro rock for an audience of bored, mohawked listeners who reward every song with grudging applause.