The 50s may not feel like the decade with the most amazing rock and roll choices, but without that decade, we may not have the genre at all.

"Blackboard Jungle" was itself a story of juvenile delinquency — that other '50s bugaboo ... It was not the first "rock 'n' roll" record (Ike Turner, Wynonie Harris, and many other African American ...

The quartet melds elements of ’50s-style rock ’n’ roll and grinding punk-metal to create a sound that—as heard on its new album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven—is catchy and entertaining as hell.