Not to be confused with its lighter-touched country rock cousin, Southern rock mixes blues, soul and country and spins it ...

Love has inspired countless rock and roll classics over the decades. These songs capture the joy, heartbreak, and passion of ...

Pitney, who was only 21 years old just starting out his career when the song was released in 1961, handles all of those various moods in a bravura performance. Kind of an odd story, this one.

but since they sing the opening theme (the 1935 Richard Whiting song “Rock and Roll”), they surely deserve at least a bonus episode. Indeed, more people have probably discovered the Boswell Sisters ...

Rock and roll has a problem. Few bands are known outside of the genre, and even fewer are getting any airplay outside of rock ...

The ubiquitous Jelly Roll spreads his "Beautifully Broken" onto the world this week, topping a new music releases crop that ...

Shit. ELO is one of those classic bands that has become embedded in our collective DNA. The songs Lynne brought into the world and his work with The Traveling Wilburys, George Harrison ...

Decades before 'Kellyoke,' Cher covered a dazzling range of songs on her weekly TV show. These 10 video clips prove the point ...

Bunnie Xo shared a snippet of an unreleased track of his 'Beautifully Broken' album, saying that she cries every time she ...

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Award-winning hip-hop country artist Jelly Roll returned to Boston Sept. 26 with his “Beautifully Broken” tour, filling TD ...