A 1978 track that still speaks to everyone.

The Sex Pistols’s notoriously ill-conceived 1978 tour of the U.S. was one of the more surreal moments in American pop culture history. The band had spent the previous two years violently yanking on ...

From the horrors of Jim Jones to the death of Harvey Milk, social and cultural upheaval transformed the city There is no city in the world quite like San Francisco. Despite a rising gap between rich ...

A close inspection of the albums and singles charts of 1978 shows that punk, post punk and new wave coexisted smoothly with heavy metal, soft rock, pristine pop, disco fever, soul balladry and prog ...

In the late 1970s, punk rock seemed to decline as quickly as it had risen in popularity. And as the scene waned nearly as quickly as the breakneck tempos that defined it, a new sound emerged. With ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. In the wake of their self-released 1977 debut EP, Spiral Scratch, the Manchester punk band Buzzcocks received mounting ...

Rock and roll was tied up in my concept of what San Francisco was even before I moved here. The impact of the Summer of Love and groups like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane were felt around ...

The biggest selling album of 1977 was Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours.” In the words of Spin magazine, it was music made by “rich, luxuriating hippie sophisticates who cavorted like sprites and nymphs and ...