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 ...

Here are Iron Maiden's six best rock 'n' roll songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah... we know Iron Maiden are a metal band and we're not here to convince you otherwise. Their place in metal's pantheon has been ...

Developing a definitive “best of all time” list requires a densely thorough thought process, one which must take into account both subjective and objective angles when constructing a list of this type ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame can’t get enough of Bad Company.The '70s supergroup, made up of Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke, Mick ...

Throughout the decades, rock musicians have never been afraid to infuse a little humor into the songs that they write. From tongue-in-cheek innuendo to out-and-out goofs, the annals of rock music ...

Throughout the years, Little Richard has been referred to as the king, queen, architect, quasar and founder of rock ‘n’ roll. While experiencing racism, homophobia, industry exploitation and ...

Doo-wop legend and rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Dion DiMucci has recorded a new version of his classic 1968 folk-rock hit “Abraham, Martin and John” that will appear on his latest album, The Rock ‘n’ Roll ...

The rock 'n' roll era started in the '50s and has spawned all sorts of offshoots of "rock" in the seven decades of music since, including hard rock and metal. But how long was it into the rock 'n' ...

Berry's core repertoire was some three dozen songs, his influence incalculable, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to virtually any group from garage band to arena act that called itself rock 'n ...

Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven," ...

In the spring of 2021, Lucinda Williams chatted with Rolling Stone about her recovery from a stroke she’d had the previous November that had led to her being unable to play guitar. “The main thing is ...

When one thinks of the instrumentation of the average rock band, the usual suspects come to mind: guitar, bass, drums, vocals, perhaps a keyboardist or a few horns thrown in. How about some violin?