This week on The Shake Out, Dave brings a stack of feel-good 45s full of 60s soul and garage rock gems, plus a 1964 stomper ...

Punk rock started in 1976 in New York, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum.

June 2026 promises to be a reissue-heavy month, but some new releases stand out. Yes returns with their 24th studio album, ...

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More than 50 years after its release, “I Saw the Light” by Todd Rundgren remains one of the defining soft rock songs of the ...

The smooth smash helped usher disco into the mainstream and became one of the decade’s defining crossover hits.

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With hundreds of bands playing The Great Escape this week how do you know where to start? Well, how about all the great ...

"Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band, which has bencome a legendary country rock song, was written overnight.

What sounded like the ultimate 1980s love song was actually inspired by jealousy and heartbreak — and it still dominates ...

"Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band, which has bencome a legendary country rock song, was written overnight.

In the 60s, surf rock emerged as a popular genre, characterized by heavily reverbed guitar sounds and, often, fun harmonies, as is the case with The Beach Boys. Here are a couple of surf-rock jams to ...