J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Why The White Album remains essential listening for rock fans.

50 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours isn’t just the best selling classic rock album of 2025, it’s the 25th-best selling record of the year overall. Of course, the very top of the 2025 ...

Classic rock, to many listeners, peaked in the 1970s. That’s a notion that is certainly debatable, but one can’t deny that some of the best classic rock albums hit the shelves in the 1970s, ...

I wrote recently about 16 brilliant albums that were totally overlooked for an Album of the Year Grammy Award. As I worked through the decades, it became obvious there were several more absolutely ...

Folks often remember the 1980s as the decade full of glam rock, hair metal, synth-pop, and other ornate genres of music that contrasted sharply with the down-to-earth simplicity of the 1970s. Indeed, ...