The 50 best country songs from the 1970s shine a light on changes within the genre. Merle Haggard opened the decade with a song rooted in country traditionalism, but 10 years later, artists including ...

Punk rock music—that blistering, snarling, enlivening style—has exhilarated audiences for some 50 years now. What rose to prominence in the mid-1970s has become a sound for the generations. Never ...

Tributosaurus, one of Chicago’s best-kept secrets, never especially cool, not exactly challenging, pushing nearly 25 years as a mainstay of local bars and theaters, without an original song to their ...

Glenn Frey was J.D. Souther's roommate, and the two would spend hours discussing, playing and listening to music. The pair met in 1969 in Southern California, an already vibrant music scene that ...

Word association time! Quick, when we name a decade, you shout out the bands that come immediately to mind. Ready? The 70s! Okay, we hear you. And those are some of the same bands that we think of, ...

Soundtrack of the revolution: Songs of the ’60s and ’70s that played a role in political movements Nina Simone performing at Jazz Festival. More than half a century ago, a prominent portion of the ...

When it comes to eras of American music, the ’70s get a bad rap. Musicologists have long waxed rhapsodic over the rise of rock ‘n’ roll in the ’50s, the transformative music of the ’60s, the meteoric ...

The best-selling album of the 1970s, according to the folks at Billboard, was “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)” by the Eagles, a collection of singles. But don’t be misled. Fueled by the rise of FM ...

Over the past couple of years, Wilmington's music scene has experienced a youthquake of sorts, with a dozen or more really good bands emerging from the pandemic lockdown. But while the arrival of ...

The former Disney Channel darling turned pop diva is set to play Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt— best known for her 1975 No. 1 hit “You’re No Good” — in an upcoming biopic. And the ...