Some of bubblegum pop's accidental superstars, including 1910 Fruitgum Company and the Lemon Pipers, had low expectations for ...

David Costell of the iconic '60s pop-rock band, Gary Lewis and The Playboys turns 82 years old today. Costello was born on March 15, 1944, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he first developed a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NBC soon premiered the sitcom in September 1966 and created a wave of innovative filming for TV, with the creators wanting the ...

The vocalist was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2020. By Stephen Daw Pride Editor Mark Volman, a founding member of the ’60s pop-rock group The Turtles, has died at age 78. In a statement shared ...

On paper, the Archies were a cartoon band, made up for the animated Saturday morning series that featured lead singer and guitarist Archie Andrews, bass player Reggie Mantle, keyboardist Veronica ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

In the latest installment of the wildly popular “My Music” series of PBS musical retrospectives by T.J. Lubinsky, WHYY presents “60s Pop, Rock & Soul,” premiering at 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 3.

There was a point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the term “pop-punk” was used as a pejorative against Green Day, Blink-182, and others. “Basket Case” is too catchy. Green Day can’t possibly be ...

Women belong in rock and roll because they’ve been there since the beginning. Many who focused on rock were shoved aside in the early days of the industry, as the genre was dominated by men. But for ...

Many iconic British rock bands were inspired by American music. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones each began their careers by covering Chuck Berry. And Brian Jones famously named his band after the ...

How many '60s pop hits can you identify from just one line? The 1960s handed radio a catalog of songs that have never really left. From Motown's assembly line of perfect singles to the British ...