By the time John Travolta - repeat, John "Vinnie Barbarino," "Stayin' Alive" Travolta - rode a mechanical bull to superstardom in Urban Cowboy, country style had crossed over to the mainstream i …

If these are some of your favorite songs - at least in their most recent incarnation - you just gotta jump in the Wayback Machine with us and hear the '70s originals that gave them life. After S …

The beauty - and the induplicability - of the Dead springs from their outrageously diversified portfolio of musical mentors, taking the concept of "eclectic" to a nearly schizo extreme. A spacious, spi …

A band, a lifestyle, a legend: the Dead left such a massive footprint in rock history, it's no wonder so many bands would aspire to a little of their cosmic magic. Often tagged as the Dead's rightful h …

New wavers didn't invent the synthesizer, but did they ever perfect it, ransacking prog's gig bag and momentarily shoving the guitar out of the spotlight with a sound that could swing from dark  …

Like a musical version of the Garbage Pail Kids, new wave's one-hit wonders devoured their entire 15 minutes of fame in less than four . . . before disappearing in a flash of Day-Glo brilliance. If any …

The lights dim, the piano ripples beneath the singer's aching plea, and the drummer, sticks poised, takes a final breath before dropping the 16-ton hammer that can signify only one thing - the power …

From Tom Petty to Billy Joel, Meat Loaf to Rush, our Album Cuts guide us past the hits' hard candy shell to the rich, creamy center within, revealing key ingredients that converted passive audiences in …

During the '70s industry-standard four-track recorders blew up like a pan of Jiffy Pop, swelling to as many as 24 tracks, and the masters of this new technology, like Todd Rundgren and Brian Eno, often …