Editor's note: In what was considered a "radical" choice, Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 13, 2016. Read the story here. What’s the most innovative year ...

Pure and simple, 1966 was considered by many critics as one of the greatest years for popular music ever [see the Guardian’s “Was 1966 pop music greatest’s year?” and the LA Times‘ “1966 Could be Rock ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, Loretta Lynn was at the top of the country chart with an album that introduced one of her most memorable songs.

This year's calendar reset means that we're experiencing golden and silver anniversaries of two of the greatest years in pop music history. Twenty-five years ago, 1991, was "the year that punk broke," ...

The Beatles. Arguably the band of the 20th century, influential and popular in ways most musicians can only dream of. You’d think music historians and super-fans alike have seen every speck of ...

It’s 1966 and the gang’s all here: Lee Dorsey, Tim Hardin, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Otis Redding, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, The Supremes and The Who gathered to celebrate the year that shaped the ...

Bob Dylan played two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall in the spring of 1966, a year he spent much of on the road with the Band. On both nights in London, Dylan played the bluesy “Tell Me, Momma,” ...

That show, and that speech, have never been released. Like everything that happened onstage in the European tour in the spring of 1966, it was captured on tape by Dylan’s sound engineer Richard ...

Soul singer Otis Redding’s shows at the Whisky A-Go Go in the spring of 1966 were just about the hottest ticket in town, drawing fans and pop music heavyweights alike. “Just before heading overseas on ...

Joe Boyd is a critical figure in the British folk music scene and global music scene. If you love Nick Drake then you can thank Joe Boyd. His book White Bicycles paints some great images of making ...

Carl Ruggles, American composer who reached his ninetieth birthday last March 11, had to wait a long time for recognition, not to mention recording, of his major work. The symphonic poem called ...