The emergence of rock and roll music in the U.S. and global culture has been well documented. Musically, everything from the ...

T he emergence of rock and roll in the early 1950s marks a defining chapter in the history of popular music. Evolving from ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of course, there weren’t only five songs that fit that description. One of the ...

If these ring a bell—black-and-white TV test patterns, party lines, drive-in theaters, sock hops, milk deliveries, metal ...

Where would classic rock music be without the 1950s? That was the decade when the genre was forming, when it was just beginning to understand the power of what it could do and what it could be.

Many bands and artists had a major '50s pastiche in the '80s. To revisit this trend, check out these three '80s rock hits.

One of The Hill Country’s favorite acts will return to the Cailloux Theater with a new show in January. The New Buddy Holly ...

Introduction: Dreams and nightmares -- Darkness at the break of noon : Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan and the birth of Sixties music -- The White Atlantic : cultural origins of the "British Invasion" -- ...