For this list, we chose five of the greatest classic dad rock albums that you should pick up a copy of. Thus, the artists are ...

Dad-rock was mostly made in Los Angeles in the 1970s. A dad-rock album rocks, but not too hard. A dad-rock album is very tired and would like to drink precisely one cold Rainier.

The Misfits are a legendary band, and their debut album, 'Walk Among Us' is an all-time classic. Combining '50s and '60s melodies with a punk and metal sound, the Misfits pounded out 13 songs in just ...

Let's face it: "Dad rock" isn't really a positive term. It has an ugly suburban connotation, the sort of music that triggers nostalgia in the minivan on the way to soccer practice of the days ...

The term was first used by Pitchfork's Rob Mitchum in his panning of Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky: Sky Blue Sky nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted ...

Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan talk music weekly on 'Dad Rock,' a podcast from USA TODAY. ... Dad Rock podcast counts down albums of 2015. Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan.

On this week's episode of USA TODAY's Dad Rock podcast, hosts Patrick Foster and Jim Lenahan are joined by Washington, D.C.-area musician and Beatles fanatic Grant Gunn (he is playing in a Beatles ...

1. Wilco: “Either Way” In a sense, this is where it all began: The critic Rob Mitchum is widely credited with popularizing the term “dad rock” in his Pitchfork pan of Wilco’s 2007 album ...

And now he has embraced it anew, embodying dad rock as fully as any rock star has by literally recording an album with his son, 18-year-old drummer Spencer, as "Tweedy." Titled Sukierae , the ...