Amid an astonishing 12 months for music, we reach into 1979 and pick out five gems that still stand tall with prescient glow.

OK, I've been a music fan for a long time now and I've lived through some good years for music and some lean ones. And I've dug back into the music of the past, too, so I feel pretty confident in ...

Forty years ago, America was filled with tube tops and harness boots, the Atari and the Walkman. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the U.K. elected Margaret Thatcher. The snowboard was invented ...

Rock music was changing fast by the time the late 1970s rolled around. In fact, if you look at the biggest hits of that era, many of the rock songs that charted vary wildly from rock and roll to new ...

Following recent reissues of Pylon and Method Actors, another great lost Southern new wave artist has his work unearthed. Kevin Dunn is the latest unjustly overlooked figure to reemerge from the 1980s ...

No one has achieved a more perfect trifecta of big hair, vintage clothes and danceable post-punk than The B-52’s. The influential, one-of-a-kind band arrived on the punk scene in the late 1970s, and ...

Looking in the rear view mirror to 40 years ago, we couldn't help but notice the overabundance of musical riches from the year 1979. Classic releases from multiple genres like rock, rap, R&B, disco, ...