Rock music is generally traced back to the 1950s, but classic rock had its breakthrough in the '70s and '80s. While Elvis Presley is often called the King of Rock and Roll, rock music was actually ...

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 ...

What albums from the '70s and '80s would you pass down to your children? If you are of a certain (Gen X) age, like this author, the music you grew up with was imprinted upon you by your parents in the ...

The transition from one decade to the next is significant in more ways than just the flipping of a calendar page. For musicians, it can represent a sonic, aesthetic and ideological changing of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York.

There were some really shocking moments in rock and metal during the '70s, '80s and '90s. There are certainly some pretty shocking things that still happen in our world today. But when you look at ...

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A rendering of the new Sunset Amphitheater, which just added rock bands Foreigner and Loverboy to its schedule. They’ll perform Oct. 2. Courtesy Notes Live Before the boy bands of the ’90s, there were ...

Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock 'n' roll for a decade, ...

Ricky Phillips, a longtime member of the popular 1970s-80s rock band Styx, is leaving the band after more than 20 years. “I am taking a break from the road. I’m not retiring, just taking a break,” ...

Clem Burke, the longtime drummer for legendary rock band Blondie, has died. He was 70 years old. Blondie announced Burke’s passing on the band’s Instagram story Monday. “It is with profound sadness ...