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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...