While rock and roll was an evolution of early blues and R&B that rose to popularity in the 1950s and solidified as the favorite genre of the 1960s, it was in the 1970s that everything crystalized and ...

The 1980s were a transition moment for popular music. While the 1960s and 1970s ushered in what became the quintessential classic rock era thanks to bands like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and The Who, ...

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan reveals of The Leona Graham Podcast that he never knew he had a rock voice. Growing up ...

SACRAMENTO — The acclaimed documentary “Fanny: The Right to Rock” will premiere on PBS KVIE on May 22 at 9 p.m., with streaming on kvie.org and on the PBS App on the same date. The film, directed by ...

Remembering the legendary female chanteuse Tina Turner, who quit her marriage and band with Ike Turner and became the Queen ...

Throughout rock history, there have been numerous pioneering female musicians. Memphis Minnie and Sister Rosetta Tharpe inspired the genre and some of its biggest musicians. Generations of female ...

Last week's Music Historicity noting the top lead vocalists in the rock music genre included only one paragraph mentioning those who were of the female gender. Due to a multitudinous profusion of ...

The band’s fifth album, Metal Forth, which features a who’s-who of rock and metal major players including Poppy, Tom Morello ...

Mojave Sun makes the kind of blues-rock music you can feel in your toes. It jiggles the floorboards, awakens the senses with its desert-forged power. The Vegas trio revels in its personal strengths, ...

May 30—McINTOSH, Minn. — Little Bobby's Bar and Grill will host the "Women of the Blues Festival 2024" on Friday and Saturday, May 31-June 1, in McIntosh. The free event, featuring the Laurie Morvan ...

Various Black musicians invented new sounds and influenced rock and roll throughout history. Jimi Hendrix created unique electric guitar chords and Prince popularized the "Minneapolis sound." Other ...