As the '70s turned into the '80s, a funny thing was happening: Rock music couldn't be as easily categorized as it once was. Punk, pop, disco and New Wave all found their way into music made by the era ...

Rock music was changing fast by the time the late 1970s rolled around. In fact, if you look at the biggest hits of that era, many of the rock songs that charted vary wildly from rock and roll to new ...

I couldn’t leave this excellent little Wings tune off this list. Written by Paul McCartney, “Goodnight Tonight” dropped in March 1979 and is a fun disco-flamenco rock jam that was the perfect ...

While not directly jazz-related, this top ten list of the best live Rock recordings has been banging around in my head for several years just waiting for a chance to get out. As part of the bargain, I ...

The year was 1979, and two Boston bands, La Peste and the Neighborhoods, were headed for a showdown at the Rock and Roll Rumble. As this year’s crop of Rumble bands are set to be announced this Sunday ...

Dave Maloney was the youngest Rangers captain in franchise history and is still a color commentator for the team’s broadcasts. But a few days a week, the 63-year-old is a stocker at a Greenwich, Conn.

Devo had been on the road pretty much non-stop for five years when they secured a spot on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert in October of 1979, and by that point they were one of the best live acts on the ...

Several TV shows have used Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” However, Stranger Things put the song in the spotlight in the first half of Season 4. The series brought thousands of new fans to Bush’s ...

If you’ve seen “Hunger,” “Shame,” or his Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave,” you know that director Steve McQueen has a singular gift for plunging viewers into his characters’ central nervous systems, ...

This time last year, the two-man Toronto assault squad known as Death From Above 1979 was in a bad place. Not interested in being a hometown phenomenon, singer-drummer Sebastien Grainger and bassist ...