I’ve been writing about music history for many years now, and one thing remains true: The best music tends not to make it high on the charts, if at all. Let’s take a quick dive into just three stellar ...

1974 was the year when the utopian dreams of the sixties finally curdled into a magnificent, decadent reality.

While these 1970s songs are amazing, they were best-suited for their era, and would have likely flopped if released today.

For the rest of the year, I’m ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the final ...

This is FRESH AIR. And as part of the summer series on albums celebrating their 50th anniversary, rock critic Ken Tucker is reviewing the New York Dolls' 1974 record "In Too Much Too Soon." It was the ...

Can you guess the 1974 song from just one clue? The year 1974 stands as one of the most diverse and creative periods in popular music, delivering an extraordinary range of sounds that shaped the ...