With its Day-Glo posters and brain-searing light shows, the'60s psychedelic scene was all about the colors, a fact that wasn't lost on its savviest pop practitioners. Scotsman-turned-spaceman Do …

The Caribbean trade winds that filled the sails of pirates and slavers also relayed music from New Orleans to Jamaica. When the Crescent City's funky R&B hit the tropical island shores, the Creole-Caly …

You can't really know reggae without delving into the crazy-quilt world of Lee "Scratch" Perry, the mad genius who produced Marley's early material before cutting some of the darkest, densest, swampies …

For all its dazzling range of styles and genres, Latin music has common qualities the whole world can understand, no translation required. Every track here connects directly to the passion and freedom  …

Much of the best Latin music remains all but unknown to non-Hispanic listeners, so here's your chance to get up to speed. Find some of the wide-ranging genre's best-kept secrets by acquainting yourself …

In an era when girl groups and teen idols dominated the U.S. charts, the British Invasion stormed our shores like nothing before or since, its musical and cultural explosion not only making rock groups …

Welcome to our British Invasion Deep Cuts, where you'll experience the full spectrum of Union Jack jams from every corner of the mid-'60s scene. You'll find hints of the psychedelic revolution j …

Few late-'00s sounds have captured a neon-doused cross-section of retired ravers, too-cool indie rockers and sneaker-collecting hip-hop heads quite like fidget house. A byproduct of the digital age's a …

Sometimes the best way to judge club-clobbering producers isn't their own beats; it's the magic they whip up through well-crafted remixes. Case in point: the freshness of the following platters, a deft …