The '70s paved the way for the '80s sound, as evident in these three 1979 rock songs. Revisit these throwback hits.

Bruce Springsteen’s shift away from rock and roll in the early 1980s produced one of his most introspective and haunting albums, Nebraska, and featured a song that would come to define 1980s folk rock ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

Some '80s bands got off to great starts and generated a lot of hype, but their spotlight was brightest right at the beginning. Here we're examining the histories of 11 '80s rock bands that never quite ...

Every now and then, an old performance resurfaces online and people gather around it the way they gather around a story someone hasn’t told in years. That’s what happened this week with Tom Waits’ ...

Revisit three songs from 1969 that set the precedent for soft rock. These songs, more or less, built an entire sub-genre.

These five '80s rock and metal guitarists who started great new bands serve as an unfortunate reminder that previous success and loads of talent don't guarantee future prosperity. That doesn't mean we ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...