When discussing the best rock albums of every year of the 1970s, bangers like Rumours, A Night at the Opera, and Hotel ...

From Queen to The Beatles, these albums feature wall-to-wall masterpieces.

Frank Zappa was already referencing a teenage rock opera back in 1963, years before The Who made the format famous.

Rock opera is a very niche sub-genre that hasn’t necessarily graced the music industry in a successful manner regularly. However, when it has, it has made history. Two musicians who made a killing on ...

So what exactly is a 'rock opera'? And where does the 'rock opera' end and the common or garden 'concept album' begin? The answer to that is above my pay grade, but the phrase has become common ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

Time flies when you're rocking out and the last 25 years has given us some amazing rock and metal albums. It took plenty of discussion and debate amongst the Loudwire staffers, but we feel we've got a ...

The 1970s were a decade defined by the evolution of rock music as both a genre and cultural movement, splintering and morphing into sub-genres like punk, folk rock, heavy metal, glam rock, and ...

You’ve heard rock operas like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and Green Day’s “American Idiot,” but what about a rock album that gets reimagined as an opera? Billy Corgan is ...

The Who has released quite a few stellar albums during its 60-year career, so you might think the band’s principal songwriter, Pete Townshend, might have a hard time choosing his favorite. During a ...

In 2001, the Drive-By Truckers released their third studio album, “Southern Rock Opera.” It was a dream conceived by members of the band before they even officially formed, back in 1998; a kind of ...