Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has ...

Love songs are a dime a dozen, but great, swoon-worthy love songs that endure over the course of decades are less common. As a genre, classic rock is full of romantic tunes about love, but none more ...

MINNEAPOLIS — AC/DC is back on the “Rock N Roll Train” and steamrolling through with renewed vigor. On the band’s first North American tour since singer Brian Johnson, 77, was forced to leave the road ...

Since initially emerging in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, punk has been rock’s rebellious, loud and proudly defiant genre. We combed through decades worth of material to find the 30 Greatest Songs in ...

Here is a ranking of the five best progressive rock songs over 20 minutes long! The “epic” song has been a staple of progressive rock since the subgenre began in the late 1960s. Aside from the usual ...

1984 was a strong year for music in general, but rock, in particular, had a stellar run. In this era of the genre, hair bands ran rampant, experimentation was commonplace, and anthems were all the ...

The '70s were defined by music ranging from pop and punk to country rock and metal, but one genre stands out in the classic rock field: hard rock. Easily encompassing many of the above styles, as well ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...