Readers who attended, heard about or wished they were at any of the evolutionary rock concerts of the 1950s through 1985 will be eager to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what really went into the ...

Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock 'n' roll icon as controversial as he was influential, died on this day in 2022. He was 87 years old.

These popular rock bands from the 1960s didn't quite survive the era, at least in terms of charting success. I think that's a bit unfair.

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

From Open Culture: “For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s,” writes Leah Branstetter, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at ...

A new book from Milwaukee-based Marquette University Press aims to tell the story of rock and roll in the city via essays from a number of local experts. "Milwaukee Rock and Roll, 1950-2000: A ...

It was November 12, 1966. The intersection of Sunset and Crescent Heights boulevards teemed with hundreds of young people—fighting for their right to party past 10 p.m. The gathering, which began as a ...

"Milwaukee Rock and Roll 1950-2000: A Reflective History" takes a mosaic approach to chronicling several generations of the music scene here. Fortunately for readers, the three editors of this new ...

Popular expressions of approval often have a vogue and then fade away. Once “swell” reigned supreme. “Anybody will look swell” in a hat from a certain Orlando shop, a 1913 Sentinel ad declared — and ...

“Juneteenth” was signed into law in 2021 as a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. “Juneteenth” is a combination of the words “June” and ...

The first quarterly 1960s' Rock and Roll Band Reunion Showcase will take place on Friday, Jan. 17, at the Historic Grove Theater. Doors open at 5 p.m. The show starts at 6 p.m. Admission is $15 per ...