Despite the barriers having been broken down significantly in the modern era, it took a long time for a female artist to reach number one with a rock song.

In total, Presley had at least four tunes hit the top spot over the course of the year, including ‘All Shook Up’, ‘Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear’, ‘Too Much’, and ‘Jailhouse Rock’. Cumulatively, these ...

Rock and metal fans have plenty of great songs to choose from for their next road trip playlist. But just how many tunes should be on it? Is there some magic number of tracks that make the perfect ...

Rock music is dead, they said. At least, it is dead as a popular genre. To be fair, rock has fallen by the wayside from the cultural-zeitgeist perspective. Hair metal gave way to grunge back in the ...

The Baby Boomer era, a time of profound societal shifts, gifted the world an extraordinary legacy of rock music that continues to resonate across generations, evolving from its bluesy roots to ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "Rock Me" Louis Jordan, "Caldonia" Little Richard, "I Don't Know What You Got" Little Richard, "Rip It Up" So much of the rock music you hear today would not exist without the ...

When it comes to influential women in rock music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe doesn’t get enough credit. Though many would consider her time to predate rock music’s beginnings, her guitar-playing skills and ...

Developing a definitive “best of all time” list requires a densely thorough thought process, one which must take into account both subjective and objective angles when constructing a list of this type ...