How memorable a year was 1973 for albums whose music still resonated today? That was the question posed in my Jan. 15 Sunday Arts+Culture article, “Is 1973 the second-best year ever for great albums?

Robert Plant and four friends at LA's notorious "Riot House" hotel, July 1973(Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The first release on Richard Branson’s Virgin label was, objectively, ...

The American Southeast reigned as the center of the popular, classical and folk music worlds on March 3, 1973: the night Nashville hosted the 15th annual Grammy Awards. Music City's big night for ...

Houses of the Holy might have been Led Zeppelin’s brightest album. The sharp production mirrored the positive vibes of many of the songs. Heavy electric blues, a staple of the first four albums, ...

The 16-track Used Songs: 1973-1980 surveys Tom Waits' early years on Asylum, serving as a sort of prequel to the 1998 anthology of the iconic singer/songwriter's later Island tenure, Beautiful… By ...

Yoko Ono recontextualizes “Now or Never” in a new version of her 1973 protest song. “Are we gonna keep sending our youths to war?/ Are we gonna keep scaring rice fields and infants?” the singer croons ...

Skidmore College’s music department is getting ready for “Skidmania ’73.” The popular annual tradition at the school this weekend, celebrates the music of 50 years ago, fueled by the talent and ...

Springsteen’s sound is derivative, but it is also singular. He’s got a new album out titled “The Wild, The innocent & The E Street Shuffle.” From what’s been said about it, his second record surpasses ...

Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above (see previous visualization here with data through 2018) showing the format share of recorded music sales in each year from 1973 to 2019 ...