It's perhaps the most recognizable opening riff in music history — and those first 17 seconds came out swinging, ...

In the year 1960, rock music as we know it hadn’t really come to be quite yet. Rock and roll was still the standard, as was rockabilly music. And while most would consider rock songs from that era to ...

The name Alan Freed may be largely forgotten now, but for several years in the 1950s and 1960s, he was a cultural trailblazer. He introduced the term “rock and roll” to mainstream US audiences in the ...

The Top 50 American Rock Songs don't necessarily scream "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!," but there's no mistaking the country of origin for most of these artists. The songs below, as selected by the UCR staff, ...