Music can comfort us in troubled times. It can also be transformative, like these four songs from 1977 that forever changed rock history.

Punk rock’s first wave didn’t last very long. It burned out nearly as quickly as the short songs of its most famous bands.

When Poison drummer Rikki Rockett brings his new group The Rockett Mafia to town, even he isn’t 100% sure about what’s going to be played. “We change our mind every other day, I swear to God ...