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 ...

The year 1963 saw the release of some of the best rock songs from the 60s. Whether they were happy songs, heartbreak songs, or something else entirely, these are three of the best rock songs from 1963 ...

The 1960s was a time of explosive creativity in the realm of popular music, that shaped the era we are still living through. There was a pop cultural explosion, driven by the confident and empowered ...

Is there anything better than putting songs in order? Well, probably a few thousand things. But, I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy the curation that goes into crafting a list like this. I don’t see song ...

These hits from such duos as Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are the very best of the ...

The 1960s were a great era for music. Beatlemania took over the world, Chubby Checker inspired a dance craze, and Nancy Sinatra sent girls flocking to buy go-go boots. In 1964, Motown Records—which ...

Love was in the air in the 1960s, all the way from the Summer of Love in '67 to the many romantic and classic tunes that were recorded and released during this peak of popular music — but perhaps the ...