I loved the DJs, the music, the contests, the weekly countdowns, and even the stunts such as the music battles — remember the ...
Ann and Nancy Wilson weren’t in the original incarnation of Heart, though their presence played a crucial role in the band’s ...
Journey’s most famous anthem was a largely forgotten relic of the early 1980s, until it had a massive digital-age resurgence ...
Fans of '70s and '80s rock will want to dig into the oral history of the era in music writer Paul Rees' "Raised on Radio" ...
Living Proof' is one of the most confident and emotionally charged releases of Beck’s career, blending soaring melodies with ...
But this music has legs. Take Journey’s hit Don’t Stop Believin’. Recorded in one take in 1981, it was featured in the last episode of The Sopranos in 2007 and rerecorded by the cast of Glee in 2009.
In "Raised on Radio," Paul Rees explores the glory years of arena rock, from Journey's anthems to Toto's hits and the rise of ...
The making of Aerosmith's 1987 comeback album 'Permanent Vacation' is revisited in the new book 'Raised on Radio', an oral ...
Radio disc jockey Uncle Joe Benson, whose deep voice rumbled over the airwaves of KLOS-FM, Arrow 93.1, and The Sound 103.1 for nearly four decades, died Tuesday, Feb. 24. He was 76. “It is with great ...
The program included interviews with the likes of Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison.
Below we’ve highlighted the most important pop-punk album from every year through the '80s. Since the sub-genre was still in ...
(This list is a project that the Billboard staff initially published in 2019, and which we’ve updated in some form every year since. In honor of our associated Greatest Pop Star ...