Veteran music writer and editor Alan Light’s latest book, “Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac ‘s ‘Rumours,'” is out today on Atria Books.

Today in Music History for Nov. 4: In 1740, English clergyman Augustus Toplady, who wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages," was born. In 1847, composer Felix Mendelssohn died at Leipzig at age 38.

For Cale, that town was Tulsa, the Oklahoma city where he was raised in the postwar era. Born John Cale in 1938, the ...

In the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon told writer David Sheff that ...

Former Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay died in Nashville on Sunday (Nov. 2) at age 78 following a long battle with cancer.

On Spotify, it has more streams than any Beatles album, Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind,’ Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic,’ or anything else from ...

A 1977 Bowie track found new fame decades later when Stranger Things reintroduced the once-overlooked song to a new ...

Bob Marley's music is beloved all over the world, and songs like "I Shot the Sheriff" and "No Woman, No Cry" are among his very best.

Apparently, the best dance music has come out of Boston. Donna Summer’s 1977 smash hit “I Feel Love” was named the best dance ...

Forty-eight years ago today, Meat Loaf released one of the best-selling albums of all time after being rejected by multiple labels.

Here's who produced the most No. 1s on Hot Latin Songs in the first quarter of the century, as part of Billboard's yearlong retrospective. The rich breadth and range of Latin music is beautifully laid ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...