Marking 50 years since its release, Status Quo’s Blue For You remains a landmark album in British rock, featuring hits like Rain and Mystery Song ...

Despite the fact that they had been tipped for greatness early on, Dexys Midnight Runners had to go to extreme lengths to get ...

Sometime in 1980, a University of Southern California film student named Ken Kwapis walked into a Los Angeles record store. As he was flipping through the bins, an album caught his eye. Three ...

Championed by the BBC’s John Peel and signed to Rough Trade, the band were punk when that meant DIY, psychedelia and prog as well as screaming chords. What’s more, they loved Pink Floyd ...

The first incarnation of the band had formed in Birmingham in 1969 with a different singer, Al Atkins. Named after the Bob Dylan song The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, they played ...

Rising Sun Presents has announced the lineup for the 2026 season of Upper Merion’s Concerts Under the Stars series, returning ...

And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival ...

Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" becomes her first No. 1 hit on multiple Billboard charts, decades after its release, following ...

Ultimate Classic Rock actually has two Van Halen songs on its radar for the worst lyrics ever. “Everybody Wants Some!!,” a ...

Several decades ago, I used to get a big kick out of subjecting unsuspecting visitors to a record by an unusual musical trio called the Shaggs. This would usually happen after a few drinks or as a ...

Photographer Spike Waltzer captured the early-1980s Los Angeles punk scene. Now, there's an exhibition of his unseen icons showing in Camden.

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.