The thing with big hits is that as soon as modern pop (in its rock or any other form) was shaped (and still is) a set of musical formulas came into play to make hits out of songs. By the time we got ...

There were soaring guitars, melodic keyboards and larger-than-life power ballads. All of those musical qualities are distinguishable characteristics for several 1980s rock acts. Those are also traits ...

The students had to audition for this special event, and some say they did not even know who Foreigner was when they ...

There have been some heavy bands who've decided to give their their songs a little extra spring with some swing. The ...

While also being a genre of music, classic rock is perhaps even more an attitude. And more often than not, that attitude is a snarling sentiment that says, "I ain't going nowhere." It's Led Zeppelin ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, led by the Milwaukee native, had scores of hits across the '70s and '80s. These were the ...

Like “Funkytown,” a hit song in the early 1980s was bound to be influenced at least a little bit by the echoes of disco. Harry and her band don’t shy away from the beat, but they rock out hard and the ...

The Uptown Music Collective recently announced all of the major shows in its upcoming season, which will run from November ...

When Cumberland’s Pershing Street rings with the iconic 1980s hit “We Built This City” on Oct. 12, a new Rock The Block event ...

With this week’s news that superstar Jack White will play the historic theater, here’s a look at some of the big names that ...

Hugh Prestwood, an El Paso, Texas, native and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame-inducted wordsmith, died on Sept. 22 ...

LOS ANGELES — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music ...