Joan Jett loves cover songs almost as much as she loves rock ‘n’ roll. That’s the key takeaway from The Hit List, Jett’s eclectic covers
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Bob Dylan has said that Blood on the Tracks, his 15th album and one of the greatest of his long career, isn’t personal. But most
In 1965, most Rolling Stones fans would expect to pay around 7 shillings for the band’s latest singles – and that year they had a choice of “Route
On Jan. 18, 1960, a new kind of hit single topped the Billboard chart – instead of celebrating the brightness and energy of the recently
Should Tremors, released on Jan. 19, 1990, be celebrated because it helped rejuvenate the glorious tradition of B-movie monster pictures from the ’50s? Or because
The famously private Dylan has said that the songs on this 1975 album aren’t autobiographical, writing in his memoir that they were instead inspired by the
Rock ’n’ roll pioneer Alan Freed had no problem with upsetting the moral guardians of the ‘50s, but in the end he paid a very
It took 10 years for Kevin Cronin to complete the song that became one of REO Speedwagon’s most definitive power ballads. When he finally delivered
For a brief span in the ’80s, there was nothing on television that could compare to Miami Vice. The opening credits let you know you were
Released Jan. 25, 1970. M*A*S*H was where Robert Altman first earned his reputation as on of Hollywood’s most idiosyncratic directors. The movie was a massive success, winning