The history of rap music, all things considered, doesn't go back too far. The genre came out of New York in the late 1970s ...

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

The year 1970 kicked off a decade of groundbreaking music in everything from rock to pop to R&B. That very year yielded a ton of hits, like “Let It Be” by The Beatles and “Bridge Over ...

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.