The 1960s are often remembered as a decade of social and political change, in a manner not dissimilar to today's climate. Amid the upheaval of gender norms and racial bias, popular music was ...

These one-hit wonders from the 60s really shocked me when I first looked at their chart data. I could have sworn these rock bands were bigger and more commercially successful than they actually were.

For some reason, it feels like the artists who become one-hit wonders wouldn’t also be the type who’d want to collaborate with others. Instead, there is a sense that these types of songwriters are ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...