Kiss became superstars with Alive! So let’s break it down: the 75 best albums of 1975, complete with a playlist of key tracks ...

The Bobby Tomlinson Story’ tells the story of a drummer who spent 60 years with the leading beach music band The Embers, the ...

Bob Dylan is still alive. But it was in 1965 — essentially a whole other epoch — that Dylan released “Ballad of a Thin Man,” a simple song that speaks more directly, insinuatingly and ...

Naturally, there are songs backing the poignant moments too, and a lot you may recognize. So, we rounded them all up. You can find an episodic breakdown of the playlist below.

What decade is it, what continent is it on, what kind of room is it in?” Rain Dogs has much in common with Swordfishtrombones ...

Readers respond to Ross Gittins’ column on religion and politics, the Age series on medical misogyny, and the federal ...

On April 13, 1936, the emerging genre of Western swing lost one of its true innovators, Milton Brown. Brown, along with Bob Wills, helped establish Western swing, a mixture of jazz, country, blues and ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND ...

The second—and more influential—demiurge of the folk-music microcosm is Bob Dylan, who is also twenty-three. Dylan’s impact has been the greater because he is a writer of songs as well as a ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...