When discussing the best classic rock song from every year of the 1960s, classics like "Paint It Black" and "The End" are ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, known for their soaring harmony on hits like "California Dreamin' " and "Monday, Monday," died ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Nov. 13 ...

The effect went straight to the listener's heart and left you with plenty to think on as you hummed along to Simons’ catchy hooks Simon & Garfunkel’s 1966 smash hits Sounds of Silence, Homeward Bound ...

Often the site of suites and symphonies, Bates Recital Hall tends to bring in buttoned-up crowds. On Monday, UT Conjunto’s ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

Discover the most popular songs from the 1960s that defined a generation. From The Beatles to Aretha Franklin, these hits shaped music history.

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 ...

Regardless of technological advancements or changing music trends, folk music never seems to go out of style. This may have to do with roots music forming the DNA from which most music styles evolve.

Progressive rock was never about restraint. At its peak in the late 1960s and 1970s, the genre thrived on audacity – epic song lengths, conceptual ambition, and musicianship that blurred the lines ...