Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

From baseball and television to air conditioning and Coca-Cola, the United States has offered the world no shortage of contributions. Few of those contributions, however, can hold a candle to the one ...

Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Salt-N-Pepa and Soundgarden will be among the newly minted members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Saturday night's induction ceremony.

This essay challenges the received wisdom that teenpix of the 1950s were dominated by a soundtrack of rock 'n' roll. I argue that this cycle of film production was marked by a diversity of musical ...

Chuck Berry, the singer, guitarist and songwriter who laid a cornerstone for rock ‘n’ roll music in the 1950s and influenced generations of performers who followed, has died. He was 90. He died ...

KEARNEY — Steve Rothenberger of Kearney, a member of the Nebraska Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, will present a flashback to the 1960s at 7 p.m. June 11 at the Kearney Public Library. According to a KPR ...

There’s a whole lotta shaking going on this month in the western suburbs with two musicals about teen culture, late 1950s-to-early 1960s style. Aurora’s Paramount Theatre is opening a new production ...

LOS ANGELES — The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has inducted its 2025 class of music giants. The ceremony held Saturday at Los ...

The News Sentinel each month tells stories from the past by researching the Knox County Public Library’s digital archives. Archiving 1922-1990 News Sentinel issues was funded through a recent "Papers ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

Rock ’n' roll wasn't invented in Batavia, but it's had a colorful history in these parts for more than half a century. Many famous rockers performed in Batavia during the genre's golden age in the ...