The winds of change were blowing by 1989 (no, not that wind), and it was evident all across the rock music spectrum. Big-haired, sex-obsessed rockers were still clinging to the charts, but they had to ...

Even if you were around in 1989 when these songs dropped, I'll bet you've forgotten about them in the years since. Let's change that.

As befits the last year of any decade, 1989 marked a period of multiple transitions in heavy metal. Thrash metal was cresting and simultaneously making way for the latest word in sonic extremism: ...

A playlist celebrating a staggeringly great year in music: Pixies, Janet Jackson, De La Soul, Madonna, Indigo Girls and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Today’s playlist is ...

The 1990s, more or less, marked the end of what is generally considered “classic” rock. Though the genre underwent many evolutions from the ’50s to the ’80s, there was a familiarity—an ...

For the chart's 35th anniversary, we review all of the chart's year-end No. 1 winners. By Trevor Anderson Since Billboard first began its national survey of song sales in the 1940s, the ever-changing ...

Whoever said "'tis the season to be jolly" probably never listened to Bon Iver. Winter is a time for peacoats, flight delays and exceedingly sad music. It's the spirit of the season. A great winter ...

I remember anxiously refreshing my iTunes in anticipation of Taylor Swift's 1989 album hitting the streaming service. This year, I'm having a bit of a deja vu moment, because on Monday, ...

Long before the 45-song concerts, the world dominance at the box office and the giddy touchdown celebration hand slaps, Taylor Swift was just a twentysomething emerging from her country shell to ...

Taylor Swift fans are back to trying to figure out her next move yet again. The singer has been suspiciously quiet for awhile and her supporters think that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is next. One fan on ...