Frank Sinatra’s 'I’ll Never Smile Again’ topped the list on July 27, 1940. The top 100 lists are still going strong.

The Turf Club is the last standing music venue on the historic Westside of Asbury Park is symbolic of the city's rich musical and cultural history.

Since its birth in the 1920s, country music has undergone major changes. The '60s saw the meteoric rise of some of the genre's most iconic stars, like Merle Haggard, George Jones, and Loretta Lynn, ...

Grammy-winning historian and author Jeff Gold noticed something when he received more than 200 exclusive images from a newly discovered photo archive of American jazz clubs from the 1940s and 1950s, ...

This song is best known by The Kingsmen’s version in 1963. But the OG tune features some particularly muddy lyrics that are hard to understand from just listening to the song alone. “Louie Louie” has ...

It’s fair to say that the descent of suffocating gray clouds into the Los Angeles basin on the blazing hot day of July 26, 1943, caused unhappy sensations in the ever-growing metropolis beyond the ...

A detail from Johnny Craig's infamous cover to "Crime SuspenStories" No. 22 from EC Comics. Credit: Comic Book cover For avid followers of comic book history, 1954 was the most epochal, unsettling, ...

Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...

There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms in pearls and churchgoing families, of patriotic youth and apple pies ...