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’ ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...