Original Features

Other items include a Hendrix guitar pick, a bootleg Ozzy sweatshirt and an invitation to Janis Joplin's wake.

That first track can make or break whether you hear the rest of the album. Here's why the best opening songs matter so much.

These artists prove a lone hit can still resonate for decades.

Will this be our last chance to salute Angus Young in person?

The Beatles' 1965 album was a turning point in their career, musically and personally.

The last song on 'Rubber Soul' wound up not aging too well.

These 35 essential horn rock tracks prove that adding trumpets and saxophones to guitars and drums creates something genuinely special.

Famous acts have been swiping ideas and making them their own from the beginning. Here are the worst offenders.

Neil Young's catalog is sprawling and uneven, but that's kind of the point. His willingness to follow instinct over commercial sense defined rock music.

Who hasn't stumbled along the way? Sometimes, it even happens on a signature track.

These rock stars saw the future, decades before it arrived.

There's two sides to every story, even when it comes to one of the closest songwriting partnerships in history.