Tune in to the music of the 1960s

1960s music is defined by a decade of rapid reinvention: in barely ten years popular music moved from polished early-60s pop and the Motown hit factory through the British Invasion, folk rock, surf and garage, Nashville and Bakersfield country, and the psychedelic explosion.
The common thread is the rise of the self-contained band, the 45 rpm single as a cultural force, and studios used as instruments in their own right.

This site organizes the decade into eight core genres: British Invasion & Beat Music, Motown/Soul & R&B, Folk Rock, Garage & Surf Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Country (Nashville Sound & Bakersfield), Pop & Brill Building, and Jazz & Easy Listening.
Each is presented as its own station with its defining sound and key artists.

The site is built like the front panel of a tube radio.
Each of the eight genres is a station you can tune into, and each interactive tool is a control on the panel.
You can start from a genre station, play a tool such as the Random Song Generator or Party Playlist Builder, or test yourself with trivia and the personality quiz.

These eight cover the styles that shaped the charts and the culture across the whole decade, from the start of the 60s to its end, while staying distinct enough to explore one at a time.
Together they map the vast majority of the essential 1960s songs and artists without collapsing everything into a single vague “oldies” category.

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Every tool is free, needs no sign-up, and runs right in your browser, powered by a hand-checked catalogue of essential 1960s songs with music that plays on the page.