He also has another influence to thank. He played the song's infectious angular guitar riff on a late '60s Black Beauty Gibson Les Paul Custom. Akkerman says he chose the model after seeing the ...

These rock bands from the 1970s are still alive and kicking today, but their lineups look very different than they did half a century ago.

An inevitability about rock music from the 1970s is that the bands and artists who made it will have to call a halt at some point. This year, many fine rock bands are doing just that. As the farewell ...

If classic rock music was born in the 1950s and came of age in the 1960s, then it became a full-fledged adult in the 1970s. That’s when it realized its full potential as a genre. One that could be ...