Not to be confused with its lighter-touched country rock cousin, Southern rock mixes blues, soul and country and spins it ...

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re ...

One Direction burst onto the global music scene in 2010, capturing hearts with their boyish charm, tight harmonies, and ...

Like many of the best Gwen Stefani songs, “Ex-Girlfriend” evinces her stylistic range, as punk, hip-hop and rock collide into one. Like a scorned ex-lover, the song’s energy stops and starts ...

I was speaking with someone just the other day about this, about how I cannot come up with a solid explanation for yacht rock. It’s a style of music delivered through vibes and energy.

One of those ‘happy-go-lucky’ rock songs with smart, nuanced layers woven into it (bittersweet melody shifts, a dreamy bridge section, lyrics like ‘I’m a bit of a mess but I’ll be ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods are an English pub rock and punk rock band formed in Essex in 1975. They were part of the pub rock ...

From floor-shaking stadium anthems to paeans to a lost past and roadmaps for a new life, here are the best songs about rock’n’roll. The piano man had grown nostalgic around the early 80s ...

The projects that tend to do best in this category are either straight-ahead rock or hard-to-categorize experimentalism: Look ...