Retro Wheels and Rails returns to The Watercress Line in Hampshire on 13 and 14 June, bringing a weekend of heritage railway travel, live entertainment, and decade-themed nostalgia across the line’s ...

A coonskin cap craze in 1955 launched one of history's most unlikely cultural takeovers.

Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist and restless genius whose bold, distinctive tone and constant experimentation kept him ...

Sonny Rollins' publicist has revealed that the beloved American jazz tenor saxophonist died at the age of 95 at his home in ...

The musician, who died Monday at age 95, honed a deeply individual sound on his horn and penned several jazz standards in a ...

These songs from the 1950s have lyrics that are pretty difficult to understand. That doesn’t change the fact that these tunes were earworm hits back in the day. And, honestly, some of them were even ...

It’s fair to say that the descent of suffocating gray clouds into the Los Angeles basin on the blazing hot day of July 26, 1943, caused unhappy sensations in the ever-growing metropolis beyond the ...

A detail from Johnny Craig's infamous cover to "Crime SuspenStories" No. 22 from EC Comics. Credit: Comic Book cover For avid followers of comic book history, 1954 was the most epochal, unsettling, ...

Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...