The country music community often looks back at the 1970s through a romantic lens that has immortalized the decade in a completely untainted package. As a result, the 10 years are consistently deemed ...
Amid an astonishing 12 months for music, we reach into 1979 and pick out five gems that still stand tall with prescient glow.
In 1979, many music styles were colliding. These are three memorable one-word one-hit wonders from 1979 to learn by heart.
Smith — who got a boost at Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury show this past summer —says the tune’s rebellious message is as valid now as when he wrote it ...
About 10 years ago, we sort of stopped talking about how hip-hop was a surprisingly big economic force in America. The fact that rap and hip-hop are an economic juggernaut is just a given now — it’s ...
The Rolling Stones in 1978 emerged from what was widely seen as a creative slump with a classic album, “Some Girls.” The band had been formed roughly 15 years earlier with the mission of playing the ...
Supertramp were many things during the few years in which they were reliable hitmakers: art-rock proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers. They moved from esoteric cult band to the top ...
In the 1981 Rolling Stone obituary, Bob Marley biographer Timothy White wrote, “The pervasive image of Bob Marley is that of a gleeful Rasta with a croissant-sized spliff clenched in his teeth, stoned ...
SPIN has been faithfully following Death From Above 1979’s barn-storming reunion rounds ever since the spaz-punk destroyers reappeared last year. Their well-received run of festival appearances — ...
A ranked look back at every song from George Harrison's six-times-platinum 'All Things Must Pass,' released in the U.S. on Nov. 27, 1970.