The first rock song that Brian Wilson called “art music”

Brian Wilson was always looking for the next way to reinvent his music, but he knew that others had beaten him to the punch ...

We followed the music of the blues from 'the most Southern place on earth'

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

‘He Marches Right Through the Song’: Steve Albini on How Charlie Watts’s Snare Defined The Rolling Stones

Charlie Watts embodies this book’s thesis. It’s impossible to imagine the Rolling Stones without him, and he was just as crucial to their sound as Keith Richards’ guitar or Mick Jagger’s singing. In ...

The artists Eric Clapton said were impossible to define: “I’d never heard anything like that”

By the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Clapton was playing guitar in a way the entire music industry envied, but he felt the same about ...
Gigwise

151 Popular 60s Music Artists

See the best 1960s music artists, from The Beatles to Motown legends, who shaped a revolutionary decade in music history.

21 Classic ’60s Songs That Defined a Generation

Discover the most popular songs from the 1960s that defined a generation. From The Beatles to Aretha Franklin, these hits shaped music history.
The Daily Campus

British Invasion: Still bringing it

Today, we’re bringing the boom. Welcome back to another edition of British Invasion, the column that dives into British music history. Today’s programming will be on the blues boom of the 1960’s (and ...