From jangling indie to late-’90s pop, these bands left their mark with a single unforgettable hit that defined then forever more ...

Updated for 2026: Discover 10 iconic classic rock songs that overshadowed the bands that wrote them, from 'Bohemian Rhapsody' to 'Stairway to Heaven'.

MTV Rewind collects broadcast clips and music videos from YouTube and strings them together to recreate the experience of actually watching MTV in its heyday. There’s even a collection of 98 videos ...

Album-oriented rock ascended along with FM radio. It reached tremendous mainstream success—and a reputation for being uncool.

In 1981, the band Blondie topped the Billboard charts with the song “Rapture.” The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 28, 1981, and stayed there for two weeks. The song, written by ...

Billy Idol, Jeff Buckley, Sade, P!NK, Lauryn Hill, Oasis and Wu-Tang Clan are among the diverse batch of 17 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees announced today. Ten of this year’s hopefuls are on the ...

The 50 best love songs of all time on the Billboard charts -- songs with "love" in the title that are the biggest hits.

You might be surprised to know, however, that several acts/artists who filled out the programming that day had been around the block and then some. These four veterans took their place among the ...

MTV is known for debuting quite a few stellar music videos for high-charting songs in pop, rock, and hip-hop. Country songs didn’t make it to MTV often in the early days of music-videos-only ...

Reports from late last year about the demise of MTV were overstated; but it got us thinking about the network’s legacy and most memorable moments.... What are the greatest videos of MTV’s golden era?

Reports from late last year about the demise of MTV were overstated, but they got us thinking about the network's legacy and most memorable moments. So on this episode of All Songs Considered, we ...