Take a porkpie hat brimming with rankin', skankin' Jamaican ska and a jackboot stuffed with D.I.Y. punk attitude, and what've you got? The official uniform of yet another - the third, in fact -  …

Talk about a revolution: from college campus to commercial radio to industry colossus, alt rock broke its Seattle-based bonds and flew off in a dozen different directions. And like a kid in a candy sto …

Nastier than grunge, noisier than a buzz saw caught in a jet engine, and most definitely not teased 'n' coiffed, alt metal parted the pit somewhere between hardcore, hip-hop, and hell to redefin …

The silken harmonies that bolted from gospel's tent, sneaking into the subway for a smoke during doo-wop's heyday, reinvented themselves in the '70s for a new generation. In "Just My Imagination (Runni …

Going back to slave-era spirituals, black music shrouded its message in code. By the '70s the voice of black pride erupted like lava, burning its way through the thin veneer of concealed rage. In "War, …

Seventies soul burst its era's levees like the Mississippi, an uncontainable force of nature rolling through the decades. Bill Withers' tear-your-heart-out tale of desertion, "Ain't No Sunshine," has u …