For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Before they were making the mellowest music of the 1970s, Seals and Croft were making "ungodly" music alongside Glen Campbell.

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When it came to fodder for pop and rock broadsides, Vietnam had a high profile, but broader-ranging Cold War anxieties had wormed their way into rock 'n' roll years before most songwriters had heard ...

After leaving Jethro Tull, Abrahams went on to found Blodwyn Pig, a blues-rock group that earned critical attention in the ...

On Discs Three and Four, all from 1962, original material becomes predominant. These are still early times, however. Banjo player Bob Yellin introduces Dylan to one audience as “a fellow who’s been ...

Today, the album is hailed as an ambitious landmark work in the country-rock movement, but it was a commercial failure in its ...

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, recently issued Bob Dylan’s Bootleg ...

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by Plastic Ono Band and "Father Christmas" by The Kinks are all among the very best classic rock ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on June 19, 1988. What really happened to the Class of '63 — the St. Rose of Lima Class of '63, to be exact? Well, Donnie Norkus owns some area ...

This little R&B rock and roll tune from The Crystals dropped in April 1963 and was a fast hit for the band. Co-written by the famed Phil Spector, this song was composed in only two days. That’s ...