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As you already know if you frequent this website with any regularity, Rhino is smack dab in the middle of its annual Start Your Ear Off Right vinyl reissue campaign, but just because that’s so, it doesn’t mean that we...

30 years ago today, the heavy metal band known as Skid Row released their self-titled album, kicking off a major-label career that would take them twice into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and to the very top...

They called him “The Man with the Golden Ear,” and with good reason: Don Kirshner was a songwriter, a producer, a music publisher, and a manager, and by the time he passed away on this date in 2011 at the...

50 years ago today, Dr. John released his sophomore LP, an album which didn’t blow the minds of critics in quite the same way as his debut (GRIS-GRIS) but nonetheless continued to reveal what a unique musical artist he was…and...

In her three albums with the great arranger and bandleader Nelson Riddle in the 1980s, Linda Ronstadt took on the standards that had emerged from the early golden era of pop tunes by the likes of the Gershwins, Irving Berlin...

62 years ago today, one of the most famous nightclubs in the world – and certainly the most famous nightclub in Liverpool – opened its doors for the first time. Opened by Alan Sytner, The Cavern Club came into existence...

54 years ago this month, Trini Lopez released his seventh album for Reprise Records, an LP which found him embracing the folk movement…although you probably guessed that from the title. Born in Dallas, Texas, Lopez’s initial foray into a music...

Hey, everybody, it’s Tuesday, so you know what that means! Huh? You don’t know what that means?! Well, criminey, we just posted about this last Tuesday, so that would seem to imply that either you’re not checking out Rhino.com as...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Don Glen Vliet, who later changed his name to Don Van Vlient, but he’s better known to most music fans as Captain Beefheart. To commemorate the occasion, we thought we’d spotlight the good Captain...