From the MC5 to Silver Apples, 1969 was a year when music was reinventing itself amid the counterculture boom. The Beatles ...

The vaults of major labels such as Columbia and many others hold many secret and yet to be revealed gems. First of all, check out singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's archival Bootleg output series or ...

These killer songs from 1969 featured surprisingly incredible lyrics that you may not have really listened to the first time around.

Of course, in Perry’s native Jamaica, the sound-system circuit meant those at the controls were as much a focus – and sometimes more so – than the singers or bands. Duke Reid, Clement ‘Sir Coxson’ ...

The pace of the news cycle slowed to a crawl, the shock and surprise followed by the dull inevitability of events already set into motion. The music of 1968 mirrored its historical moment. The trends ...

The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, and remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.Woodstock was a three-day music festival attended by mainly young people living ...

Psychedelic pop was in full flower by mid-1968 when Tommy James and the Shondells recorded “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” Included in the group’s sixth album, “Crimson & Clover,” the song was released as ...

So many absolutely amazing rock songs came out in the year 1969. One of the greatest decades of music was coming to a close, and several different genres were pumping out hits from bands and musicians ...

14 Songs from 1968: Can you name them from just one line? Get ready to test your knowledge of the iconic year 1968 through its unforgettable music. This was a year of profound social change, political ...

In 1969 you either bought your music on black plastic circles and used a needle to scratch sounds out of the vinyl, heard it on the airwaves, most likely on a lo-fi AM radio, or, if you were lucky, ...

One of the late 1970s' most iconic disco anthems once charted as a country song in 1969, recorded by one of the genre’s original outlaws. Jennings' crowning achievement with the song came after he had ...