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How many truly great albums were released in 1974, and has that music endured? Those were the questions posed in my June 30 article, “Is 1974 the third best year for great albums? From Bob Marley to ...

Fifty years ago, the sounds that dominated Latin music were thriving. Rock had become ambitious (and intellectual), the New York salsa explosion was at its apex, and the movements of bossa nova and ...

Kiss and Rush were just two of the bands who released their first albums in 1974, starting the long road towards careers that would become legendary in time. That's just scratching the surface as ...

In the mid-1970s, rock music ruled the airwaves. You couldn’t turn on the radio or walk into a department store without hearing a few major chords running through a buzzing amplifier. What a world, ...

Sometimes it’s appropriate to create an album title that stretches longer than a country mile. Something that slips off your tongue in the course of a near-minute. Other times, though, concision is ...