Not to be confused with its lighter-touched country rock cousin, Southern rock mixes blues, soul and country and spins it ...

For the soundtrack of 'Footloose', Heart vocalist Ann Wilson performed a duet with Mike Reno of Loverboy, but he was not her first choice for the part.

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’s no filler on this album We’ll begin with the granddaddy of all modern popular music – good old rock & roll. The Beatles split up in 1970. Led Zeppelin called it a day in 1980. Rock & roll was ...

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 ...

Henry Kreindler was no rock star, but you might be hard pressed to find anyone who helped define the sound of Winnipeg’s ...

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

Most artists try to make something timeless when they create a set of songs, but these albums had a lot of their mojo secondhand from decades past.

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 ...

Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi returned triumphantly to his New Jersey high school this week.  The Bon Jovi frontman visited ...

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