There are a lot of things going on in today’s crazy, mixed-up world. We don’t need to enumerate them here, but suffice it to say, it often feels like too much is happening. But what can a person do to ...

The Pointer Sisters, Minutemen and more sounds from a landmark year in pop music. By Lindsay Zoladz If you’re halfway decent at math, you know that it is currently the 40-year anniversary of 1984 — ...

Summertime, and the listening is easy, songs are rockin’ and the volume is high. Which is to say, it’s time to talk about songs of summers past. Songs of the summer anchor us in a time and place. You ...

1984 was a strong year for music in general, but rock, in particular, had a stellar run. In this era of the genre, hair bands ran rampant, experimentation was commonplace, and anthems were all the ...

For the rest of the year, I’m ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the final ...