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Here’s the thing about prolific bands: because of the number of albums in their back catalog, you tend to find yourself celebrating a lot of release-date anniversaries. This is pay...

Progressive rock – or prog-rock, as it’s more familiarly known – is generally perceived as having experienced its commercial heyday in the ‘70s, but the genre certainly experienced...

When he was born 64 years today, he was known as John French Segall, but if that name doesn’t ring a bell, then perhaps Jay Jay French will strike you as more familiar: he’s the gu...

31 years ago today, the bio-pic about the couple often described as the Romeo and Juliet of punk rock had its premiere at the Limelight Club in London, England. Directed by Alex Co...

Who can blame a young band who have had a big hit, for cutting another song from the same cloth, in an effort to score another hit? It's not a particularly novel or creative approa...

50 years ago this month, Otis Redding released his only live album to land in record stores during his lifetime. Recorded at Paris’s Olympia Theater during the Stax/Volt tour of Eu...

Today we celebrate a single that might never have found its way into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 if one of its two co-writers hadn’t convinced the other that its simplicity...

If you’ve checked the weather forecast lately, then you know that summer is still raging on, as is Rhino’s celebration of the Summer of Love. This week, we’ve got four special viny...

Today’s the birthday of longtime Black Sabbath member Geezer Butler, and when we use the word “longtime” to describe his tenure, we’re not kidding around. In fact, he was so devote...