By then a music veteran — with session credits for George Harrison, Peter Frampton and Johnny Hallyday, and membership in Spooky Tooth — Jones had just made an acrimonious departure from the Leslie ...

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John Fogerty was recently awarded the Johnny Mercer Award by the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. To celebrate, we count down 15 of ...

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Reports from late last year about the demise of MTV were overstated; but it got us thinking about the network’s legacy and ...

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If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to explore albums as defining statements rather than collections of hit ...

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here's a ranking of the 13 best. Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have ...

This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...

As 2025 winds down, let's take a closer look at the 13 best rock songs of the year and count down to the best of the best. Earlier this year, we gave you the 51 Best Rock and Metal Songs of 2025 and ...