From stadium-filling riffs to the birth of the synthesizer, we rank the essential records that defined rock’s most creative decade ...

UCR's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s highlights iconic records that shaped music history, featuring legends like Bruce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years after Janis Joplin’s death, Columbia Records assembled a double album of her legendary live performances. One LP ...

Introspective, politically conscious, authentic? The singer-songwriters of the 1970s were some or all of these things ...

The sophomore album can be the hardest to write. These are the best three classic rock sophomore albums from the 1970s.

Stacker compiled data on the best rock albums of the ’70s and listed the top 50, according to Best Ever Albums. - Sire Stacker compiled data on the best rock albums of the ’70s and listed the top 50, ...

But like most cultural phenomenons, it didn’t just appear out of thin air. The sound, the swagger, and even the spectacle had been long since brewing throughout the duration of the 1970s and was ...

There is a revolving discussion going on about which decade in modern times is the best. And while that debate might never end, one of the decades that is mentioned more than others is the 1970s. The ...

It just might be the case that the 1970s produced some of the best live albums around, and that doesn’t just concern their quality, whether music or recording is concerned, but also the quantity, as ...

When it comes to pop music, it’s important to end everything with a bang. Occasionally, certain pop artists can get away with giving fans something downbeat or slow. But most of the time, the idea is ...

Shaking off the naturalism, daisy chains, and acid tabs of the 1960s was easier than expected. The 1970s unfurled as a paradox of both striking diversity and remarkable coherence: From high-concept ...

The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live ...