Mr. Bobby Womack's been a power hitter all the way back to the beginning of the game, slamming home runs like the soulful sugar rush "Sweeter Than the Day Before" with the Valentinos, and playing guita …

Billy Idol's photogenic mug was plastered all over MTV in the days of Max Headroom and Ronald Reagan, but only a small portion of Idol's huge audience was aware of his punk past with Generation X, the  …

Before he became a bare-chested, '80s new wave pin-up boy, Billy Idol was the frontman for first-generation British punks Generation X. They helped bust down the doors of stodgy stadium rock with the C …

The folks at iTunes Essentials recently caught a rare Bad Brains gig - on a New York City ship skimming its way across the Hudson River. As odd as the pairing may sound (one of the most important hardc …

It's easy to imagine a fire engulfing H.R.'s eyes as he rages against his battering ram of a band in a blistering early-'80s version of "Right Brigade." While the rest of this playlist comes from the s …

A haunting ballad, "Dreaming of You" is the title track of the 1995 album that catapulted Selena into mainstream success - a few months after her tragic death. With its bubbly beat and cumbia stylings, …

Twenty minutes. That's how long it took for the Verve's first run of reunion shows to sell out in late 2007. Never mind the eight years that separated the group's late-'90s split and their sudden retur …

It's hard to believe now, given their festival-closing credentials and all, but the Verve's first single - the skyscraping "All In the Mind" - earned them a cult following. The same goes for the psych- …

Named after official unemployment-benefit paperwork, UB40 came straight out of Birmingham under the wing of their staunch early supporter, the Pretenders' singer/guitarist Chrissie Hynde. No one had bl …