This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Rock and roll isn't just music—it's been the soundtrack to our lives for generations. Since bursting onto the scene in the '50s, it's ...

A couple of weeks ago, Pearl Jam played the American Airlines Center and rocked the hell out of the place. But after all of these years, can anyone still call Pearl Jam a grunge band? As someone who ...

It’s a tradition as old as pop music itself: A band discovers how much money can be made by crossing over to the pop market and starts crafting softer music accordingly. It has happened to the best of ...

Effortlessly cool Allman Brothers Band singer/keyboardist Gregg Allman once quipped, “’Southern rock’ is a bit redundant. It’s like saying ‘rock rock.’” Allman’s point was many of rock and roll’s ...

They’re not just bands, they’re “brands.” Classic rock bands whose logos are nearly as famous as the music and the musicians who made it. But there are also many worthy classic rockers far less ...

College rock was notorious for finding underground rock bands and giving them a platform that in some cases turned into eventual mainstream success. Here, we're giving some appreciation for the often ...

In a nutshell, progressive rock kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when distinctive and imaginative artists experimented with particularly complex arrangements, lengthy track lengths, ...

We’re back at it – ranking bands – and this time it’s rock. The emergence of rock music came on a little over six decades ago, so to some people, it’s still considered a “younger” genre of music. Rock ...