The first sounds you hear when you drop the needle — or click the digital file — on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks are ...

These five incredible and enduring Bob Dylan albums are absolutely essential listening for any fan of the folk legend.

Nevertheless, Led Zeppelin kicked off their tour on Jan. 18 at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, ...

Carole King's Really Rosie, her 1975 collaboration with legendary children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, marks its ...

The sheer scale of Michael Jackson’s fame can sometimes overshadow the music itself. From the moment he danced into America’s ...

Given how many outstanding albums were released in 1975, how can any respectable music critic claim it was an inferior year ...

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Here are the 25 best metal albums of 2000. It was the dawn of not just a new century, but a new metal millennium. After a bumpy decade for heavy metal on the whole, a resurgence for the genre's ...

Concept albums are prevalent across music. Some tell a continuous story, while others use each song to contribute to an overall theme. Regardless of the path taken, the process can be arduous and ...

2024 was a banner year for heavy music, having hit us heavy-music fans with countless awesome albums from veteran artists and rising forces alike. And while that was badass, 2025 could be poised to be ...

How best to define the indefinable 2024? Other than a smattering of excellent albums, finding a throughline through the melee of the whole thing is nearly impossible. Once again, music was beleaguered ...

The Arizona Republic's photo archives highlight some of the biggest moments of 1975, including major political firsts and big sports highlights in the Grand Canyon State. The photos also show the ...