From garage-rock pioneers to stadium-filling legends, we rank the definitive American bands that provided the soundtrack to our lives.

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From manipulation and financial shenanigans to scandal and ego, these infamous rock managers shaped music – and sometimes ...

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From the raw energy of punk to stadium-filling anthems, these 21 artists define the defiant, melodic soul of Irish music ...

Many an iconic rocker has found religion or spirituality. It hasn't always led them where they might have hoped ...

Rock has always thrived on decadence and danger, but some of its greatest music came from places already steeped in darkness. These places remind us that creativity often germinates in haunted soil: ...

A debut album is often the purest, most unadulterated artistic statement a band will ever make. Forged in years of obscurity, ...

For long neglected outside her own nation, Welsh composer Grace Williams is starting to enjoy her time in the sun again ...

Motown gave us The Sound Of Young America throughout the ’60s, but one year – 1966 – was the year Berry Gordy’s label truly came of age ...