Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock 'n' roll icon as controversial as he was influential, died on this day in 2022. He was 87 years old.

Where would classic rock music be without the 1950s? That was the decade when the genre was forming, when it was just beginning to understand the power of what it could do and what it could be.

Mick Jagger might be the litmus test for most rock frontmen, but he knew any band owed it to themselves to listen to the ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, a New Orleans boogie-woogie pianist who wrote and recorded the 1950s rock-and-roll standards “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise” and who influenced many ...

While there were plenty of innovators from the original rock and roll movement, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason sees one man as ...

A rock band popular in the mid-1980s has canceled its fall reunion tour. The Stray Cats announced Tuesday that they are ...

Desert Hot Springs has finalized a location for its upcoming monthly downtown concerts on Pierson Boulevard, between Cactus and West drives. The city’s outdoor concerts will take place from October ...

The time is one autumn in the golden summer era of the 1950s. Orangeburg's Bluebird Theatre has been magically transformed into Mom's Malt Shop, the local hangout for the kids at Herbert Hoover High ...

JANESVILLE — Brian Johnson pours himself a steaming mug of coffee as 1950s rock and roll plays in the background at Rockin Rob’s, a 1950s-style diner in a former Dairy Queen at 1532 E. Racine St.

Coming after World War II, the 1950s finally allowed people to take a sigh of relief as they began recovering from years of economic decline, conflicts, and battles. It was a period characterized by ...