In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...

The term “classic rock” covers a wide period of time and thousands of songs. However, it seems like radio stations that play older rock and roll spin the same 20 songs on repeat while tossing a couple ...

If you are in a band and your single plays relentlessly on the radio, life is pretty good. But for listeners, especially the fans, radio can ruin even the greatest songs by overplaying them. Many ...

Classic rock is arguably the most beloved genre of music across multiple generations, now in the thick of its seventh decade. The genre boasts many of the best-selling artists of all time as its ...

Austin is a list writer for Collider, focusing on television. Austin graduated from Florida International University with a degree in English Literature, where he assisted with teaching several film ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Johnny Van Zant said the Southern rock titans "will leave that door open" for a new studio album without late co-founding guitarist Gary Rossington, according to a new Classic ...

Born in Jacksonville just over 50 years ago, 38 Special is still holding on loosely. The nonstop Southern rock band is celebrating its anniversary with its first studio album in more than twenty years ...

The 1970s. What a decade for music! It was a wild, experimental, and incredibly fertile period that saw genres explode, artists push boundaries, and hit after hit cascade from radios across the globe.

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, ...

When Poison drummer Rikki Rockett brings his new group The Rockett Mafia to town, even he isn’t 100% sure about what’s going to be played. “We change our mind every other day, I swear to God. That’s ...

“Leonard Skinner was our gym coach,” Rossington said, “and it was actually just me who was taught by him. The other guys in ...

The ambassador is a longtime bass player, and has even had his own amateur rock band called Capitol Offense. While serving as ...