Some say that Generation X got the best era of rock music. It's hard to argue with that. Here are four rock jams that defined a generation.

There's no question that alt-country existed long before the 1990s: Consider Neil Young's masterpiece Harvest, released in 1972, or the Mekons' Fear and Whiskey, Green on Red's Gas Food Lodging and ...

Perhaps no other songwriter has had the level of a career that the legendary lyricist and musician Bob Dylan has enjoyed. Conventionally known as likely the best at his craft in the history of the art ...

The 1980s saw a shift in pop culture, leaving a legacy that lasts to this day. The world was changing, and entertainment followed suit. New technology launched. Blockbuster films dominated theaters ...

Few rock bands have been as successful over the last 50 years as U2. They've earned it, forming as teenagers in the late '70s and creating challenging rock that mixed the personal, political, and ...

For their third full-length, however, the New Jersey quintet were dreaming of a sound that would catapult them into the higher echelons of alternative rock. The lead single and title track (of sorts) ...

— -- School's out for summer … School's out forever …lNo more pencils, no more books … No More teachers' dirty looks. Released in 1972, Alice Cooper's "School's Out" became the defining song of ...

When counted out and living in the shadow of her carefully-crafted persona, Tina transformed into another hero we needed and, more importantly, she needed. Making her major comeback in the mid-‘80s ...

LGBTQ+ people have always been at pop’s vanguard, as performers and audiences; the history of pop music is queer history. Blues originators like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, both openly bisexual, ...

Image by Chris Panicker. Photo by Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Zohran K. Mamdani presents like a true man of the people. The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman frequently travels by Citi Bike, is ...

When Elizabeth Warren took the stage to launch her presidential run to the strains of Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the song seemed to sum up the spirit of a candidacy built on giving workers a fairer ...

Welcome to Upside and Motor, a weekly NBA Draft column dedicated to analyzing the next wave of basketball stars, from blue blood sensations to those flying under the radar. Over this past weekend, I ...