The 1960s excelled in cheesy pop ballads with songs like “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley and “Mr. Lonely” by Bobby Vinton. The British invasion of the mid-’60s brought ...

A complete culture unto itself, dance music is vast and contains multitudes. It can be hard or soft, joyful or melancholic, ...

The 1960s were full of wonderfully bizarre band names, from inanimate objects to random words; here are five bands who used the word "love." ...

Paul Heaton is a British singer and songwriter who is best known for his work with The Housemartins and The Beautiful South.

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the ...

In the late 50s and all through the 60s, teenage death ballads narratively describing tragedies were immensely popular.

“I had recorded them I guess in the late ’60s, early ’70s. … I remembered those two songs as being two of my favorite love songs that I’d ever written, so I just thought ...

The 1960s will always be associated with counterculture and the Summer of Love, but the decade’s pop ... on a still-strange trip through the ‘60s. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.