Rubber Soul, the last copy. My copy. After I paid the Walmart cashier a ten-spot, Rubber Soul crashed into me like a carom. Suddenly hackneyed pop was cool. Protest music was funny. Those ...

There were bigger and more famous British blues musicians, but few were as influential as the late Alexis Korner ...

Across several terrific bands—Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart, Mozart Estate—the mononymous British singer-songwriter built an oeuvre of jangle-pop gems that flew unknown the radar. After a documentary ...

Bob Dylan and The Band didn't officially release 'The Basement Tapes' until 1975. These four covers gave the wider world a ...

In the late 1950s and through the mid-1960s there was a flurry of corny songs, many with nonsense word refrains.

The 1960s offered a soundtrack for a decade of immense change, producing tunes that have managed to stick in our heads for decades. These songs are more than just oldies; they are cultural artifacts ...

Country music, as a termed genre, more or less began back in the 1940s, inspired by countless American folk genres dating back to the 1920s or even earlier. By the time the 1960s rolled around, ...

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 ...

An online vote to discover listeners’ favourite Stevie song will mark 60 years since his first UK Top 40 hit, and 50 years since the release of his landmark album Songs In The Key Of Life Stevie ...

Walt Aldridge’s name might not be one most modern country music fans know, but they probably should because there’s a good chance they know his songs. Aldridge, a prolific musician, songwriter and ...