From teenage messiahs to the Lynyrd Skynyrd story, we rank 16 bombastic masterpieces that pushed the boundaries of rock and storytelling ...

The album recording of “Intelligence,” which premiered in 2023, is nominated for best opera recording. It’s also the first ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. All these years later, friends have come and gone – goodbye, Fred – but Queen, in one shape or ...

Heigh Ho, dear lovely rainbow tribe, welcome back to Bobby's CD sandbox where we offer our broken-down breakdowns of new music releases. So, strap in and get ready, as Bobby goes on the record ABOUT ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. They’re watching an old black-and-white Marx Brothers film on a primitive video player owned by ...

From the Who’s “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia” to Green Day’s “American Idiot” and Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” the pop music world has produced more than its fair share of rock operas and concept albums. But ...

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 ...

For years before it was released in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers’ high-concept album “Southern Rock Opera” existed only as a topic of conversation and consternation as the band worked the concert ...

A whopping six decades into her career, Marie Osmond continues to reinvent herself. She recorded her first hit, the country chart-topper “Paper Roses,” at age 13, and she still holds the record for ...