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25 years ago today, Pantera landed atop the Billboard 200 with an album which conclusively proved that, although grunge might’ve helped put to rest the musical scourge known as hair metal a few years earlier, real heavy metal was alive,...

25 years ago today, Roxette released their fifth studio album, an LP which provided the duo with the single which – as of this writing, at least – remains their final hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Produced by Clarence...

Today we celebrate the birthday of a man who isn’t “just a friend,” he’s one of the most familiar rappers to emerge during the ‘80s, thanks predominantly to the success of one particular single: “Just a Friend.” That said, Biz...

10 years ago this week – yesterday, if you want to be precise – Neil Young released his 29 th studio album. Produced by Young and Niko Bolas under the moniker “The Volume Dealers,” FORK IN THE ROAD was an...

Over the course of the past several weeks, Rhino has been reissuing a series of 12” singles by New Order, all of which were originally notable for having been released in advance of the band’s debut album, MOVEMENT. Now, in...

This year marks the 50 th anniversary of David Bowie’s first hit single, “Space Oddity” (you know, the one that starts off with him crooning, “Ground Control to Major Tom…”), and to commemorate the occasion, Parlophone has just released SPYING...

32 years ago today, Starship landed atop the Billboard Hot 100 with a song from the soundtrack of a film about a mannequin that comes to life and… Actually, never mind. Let’s just say that it was an ‘80s movie,...

49 years ago today, Van Morrison just barely crawled into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 with the first single from his MOONDANCE album. Written by Morrison, “Come Running,” which he produced with Lewis Merenstein at A&R Recording...

To hear Rickie Lee Jones sing in any setting is to hear the hippest, grooviest voice you’ve ever encountered slip and slide through songs that tell a wild story one moment, open the heart to the possibility of love and...