The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been subject to criticism over not just which acts get inducted, but which members of those ...

Rock & roll was born in the 1950s, a more raucous, electrified form of the blues. In the 1960s, the genre was given more life. Still rudimentary in some ways, it grew over the era and then found its ...

These are questions and themes tackled in Preston Lauterbach’s new book, “Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who ...

It seems the GRAMMYs required some time to understand or appreciate rock music. According to Billboard, a category for rock and roll debuted in 1962. Its first winner: Chubby Checker for “Let’s Twist ...

From Sting, Coldplay, Bon Jovi to Led Led Zeppelin, and Bryan Adams, youngsters are the main driving force behind the revival ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is so illustrious that many die before they get there, but who was the first posthumous inductee?

In the book, Lauterbach examines the Black artists who laid the foundations for rock ‘n’ roll and influenced its best known ...