There's no question that the '70s was an incredible decade for music in general, but that's when one genre in particular ...

The ’70s were defined by music ranging from pop and punk to country rock and metal, but one genre stands out in the classic rock field: hard rock. Easily encompassing many of the above styles, as well ...

Watch Billy Idol and The Warning pay tribute to 'La Bamba' and another legendary anthem in a mashup fans are calling 'pure ...

Word association time! Quick, when we name a decade, you shout out the bands that come immediately to mind. Ready? The 70s! Okay, we hear you. And those are some of the same bands that we think of, ...

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 ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called "disco demolition" night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...

The Top 50 American Rock Songs don't necessarily scream "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!," but there's no mistaking the country of origin for most of these artists. The songs below, as selected by the UCR staff, ...

Did you pick up the guitar as a youngin’ in the 1970s? If you still play the guitar today, you might have been inspired to start decades about by these rock songs from 1974. And even if they didn’t ...

When it comes to classic rock, the 1970s were the Golden Age. After Rock 'n' Roll's rise in the '50s and '60s, the genre found its niche in popular culture history. The decade prior came to a close ...

Lex Williams is a music writer and film critic, who shares her time between North Carolina and New York City. From a young age, Lex has always had a passion for arts in all its forms, having worked in ...

In his autobiography, Elvis Costello wrote that the popular idea of him early on as an angry man was just a trick of physiology. He wrote: “It seems that the space between my two front teeth, which ...

Before taking on its now-iconic and familiar title, That '70s Show was supposed to be named after a lyric from one of The Who ...