The Pretty Things, despite their name, were a gem of a gritty, vulnerable band in a sea of perfectly pleasant pop-rock acts in the 1960s. This outfit, formed in 1963, leaned toward blues rock, beat, ...

Few decades have produced as much good music as the 1960s. And far too many bands got a bit of attention, only to more or less fade from the public eye by the time the 1970s rolled around. Such is the ...

June 9 (Reuters) - Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped ...

Before Woodstock and FM radio shaped the sound of the 1970s, the 1960s were already roaring with American bands pushing rock in bold new directions. This was the decade that cracked the genre wide ...

As they crisscrossed the country in the late 1960s, the likes of The Who, Cream, The Yardbirds and Buffalo Springfield famously made stops at the legendary Arlington Heights teen music club, The ...

The “battle of the bands” concept wasn’t invented during the 1960s, when hundreds of teen bands began springing up in suburban garages in the wake of the rise of surf music and, a bit later, the ...

Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk music, has ...