When Queen released their third album Sheer Heart Attack in 1974, the band had already begun sketching more multi-layered, orchestrated rock with the lush “Killer Queen” and the guitar-hurtling “Stone ...

How many albums were released in 1975 that have stood the test of time and still resonate strongly today as all-time standouts? That was the question I posed in my Jan. 13 Sunday Arts+Culture cover ...

Some bands have classic albums that seem to come out of nowhere. Others build gradually to a peak. Truth be told, A Night at the Opera contains a little bit of both of those extremes in its DNA. On ...

America was a mighty weird place in 1975 — but music was the weirdest thing about it. The entire culture was changing fast. It was the year Jaws invented the Hollywood blockbuster. Saturday Night Live ...

Queen created albums of lasting power and majesty, with a fizzy amalgam of power pop, rock, opera and metal. Then they brought it all to life with eye-popping in-concert theatrics before losing ...

In a very The 1975-ish bit of meta self-reference, I’ll be honest: when I volunteered to write this piece it was mostly to point out that Matty Healy is wrong, and not in the ways you might think.