A ranked list of 20 of the best songs released by Tom Petty in the '80s, taken from studio and live albums with the Heartbreakers, plus solo releases.

If somewhere in the cosmos there’s a heavy metal god wearing biker gear, controlling earthly events with a Flying V, the year 1980 must have been important to the long-haired deity. Before social ...

Certain hit movies from the 1980s, like Rocky III and The Breakfast Club, have a great song connected to them.

Everyone from the 1960s managed to have at least one big single in the 1980s. The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Barbra Streisand, The Beach Boys, and many more retro acts found their ...

By Lindsay Zoladz The Oscars are this Sunday, and my personal pick for best picture is Brady Corbet’s gloriously ambitious, utterly unpredictable epic “The Brutalist.” Corbet and his co-writer, Mona ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

Stuck between the ’70s and ’90s, literally and figuratively, the ’80s reached its midpoint in a melting pot of styles: rock, ...

She had battled ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, since 2022. From her 1969 debut album, "First Take," ...

record Millermen in 1980 led by its composer Danny Cannon (front) One day a few accepted the invitation to go down to a local recording studio and record a Rotherham United song. That song, Millermen, ...

Indeed, here below are three songs that explain rap in the 1980s. After rap music’s salad days in the late 1970s and into the first few months of 1980, it was Run-DMC who pushed the style further.

Team USA was locked in after its huge win over Canada on Saturday night. / @USAHockey The highly anticipated showdown between USA and Canada in the NHL's 4 Nations Face-Off on Saturday night ...