"The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have degenerated into a movie-length music video, with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning merely glam-rock poseurs ...

You take some music, hot beats, drumbeats, Finger poppin’ and stompin’ feet . . . It’s got this whole wide land. Rock ‘n’ roll forever will stand, Singin’ deep in the heart of man. —It Will Stand by ...

Jack White knows rock and roll, so it’s a no-brainer that he has a high-quality opinion on the most rock and roll album of all time. Is it Elvis? The Beatles? The Doors? None of the above. The real ...

I grew up in the 1970s. The radio was always on – AM early in the decade and FM by the end. I pedaled my bike to the record store to buy 45s, and then when I was old enough, drove my car to the same ...

Chas Madonio is intimately familiar with Kent's music scene during the '60s and early '70s, at one point playing in a band with pre-fame Joe Walsh. Madonio spent the last three years compiling his and ...

In the spring of 1954, when the nation’s top record was Perry Como’s “Wanted” and the top album was the soundtrack from the movie The Glenn Miller Story, a new musical style was germinating. Bill ...