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30 years ago this week, Phil Collins landed atop the Billboard 200 with his first new solo album since the multi-platinum success of NO JACKET REQUIRED half a decade earlier. Although he’d continued to secure high-placing chart hits with his...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Michael Nesmith. You know, from the Monkees? The one who used to wear the wool hat. Right, that guy... Of course, we’re only kidding: we can’t even begin to calculate the unlikelihood of someone...

18 years ago today, Nickelback sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 with a single that would subsequently receive more U.S. radio airplay during the 2000s than any other song by the band...or any other band, for that matter! Credited collectively...

39 years ago today, Metallica officially completed the recording of an album which would go on to become not only one of the most important albums of their career but, indeed, one of the most influential albums in the history...

50 years ago today, Led Zeppelin sat atop the Billboard 200 for the first – but certainly not the last – time in their career, thanks to their sophomore album. To say that LED ZEPPELIN II was recorded on the...

40 years ago today, Utopia released their fourth studio album, an LP which both continued the band’s evolution away from their prog-rock beginnings and built on the success of its predecessor, 1977’s OOPS! WRONG PLANET, to provide them with the...

49 years ago this month, Gordon Lightfoot released the song that would provide him not only with his first appearance on the U.S. charts but, indeed, his first top-5 single on the Billboard Hot 100, not to mention a #1...

Today we celebrate the birthday of the late R&B singer Esther Phillips, and we do so by taking a look at arguably the least R&B-oriented album in her back catalog, mostly because it so unabashedly advertises the fact that it’s...

We’re only two days away from Christmas, and we here at Rhino Records are just about to venture out of the office for the holiday. As such, we’re trying to get everything in order, including all of our posts for...