"Don't Fear the Reaper" is Blue Oyster Cult's most successful song, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has been widely used in film and television and was included on Rolling Stone's ...

Etta James had a voice unlike any other. And one of her signature hits of the early 1960s was “At Last”. A standout tune from the album of the same name, this R&B classic has become a go-to song to ...

Before Woodstock and FM radio shaped the sound of the 1970s, the 1960s were already roaring with American bands pushing rock in bold new directions. This was the decade that cracked the genre wide ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

It’ll be a very long time until rock music fully falls out of style, if it ever will. In the meantime, the genre will continue to evolve and change, just as it first began doing with early evolutions ...

Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke ...