By that, I mean I won’t simply defer to what was most popular at the time and claim these songs represent the best of “pop” ...
The below list of the Top 50 Hard Rock Songs of the '70s, voted on by UCR staff, reads like the ultimate classic rock radio ...
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” was a strange hit in 1973. Riding the trend of kudzu noir that followed In the Heat ...
Speed, aggression, pace, sweat. These are words that leap to mind when people think of punk rock music—especially that of the ...
The 1970s was an exciting time for music as genres expanded and overlapped and experimentation ran ragged, but which band were the biggest influence?
Jose Da Costa and Shankari Kathirgamalingam – both born in 2003 – have created the University of Sydney’s inaugural 1970s ...
As the leader of the punks, John Lydon, or Johnny Rotten, shouldn't have liked the New Romantics. But he deeply admired this ...
A hard-drinking singer-songwriter with an outlaw spirit, Kris Kristofferson transformed the country music scene in the 1970s ...
Libby Titus, who recorded albums as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s and was the wife of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, has died ...
Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of countercultural rock band The Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84 years old. His ...
Their 1969 debut LP fused jazz, soul, and funk into an unexpected hit, and by the mid-1970s, songs like “Funky Stuff,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Jungle Boogie,” and “Spirit of the ...
Another unexpected highlight was a cover of Minnie Riperton’s 1970 song “Les Fleurs.” (Side note: Riperton, who died at age 31 in 1979 from cancer, is the mother of comedian/actress Maya ...