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50 years ago today, Jethro Tull stepped onstage to play their inaugural performance in the United States…and apparently either they liked it or America liked it, because five decades later, they’re still playing dates across the U.S. of A.! The...

It’s hard to pinpoint when the Grateful Dead’s concert at Cornell University’s Barton Hall on May 8, 1977 became the Holy Grail-kinda show it became. It was probably sometime between the summer of 1977, when tapes of the show began...

49 years ago today, Judy Collins caused a completely ridiculous courtroom controversary in the midst of the trial of the so-called Chicago 7. Being as she was friends with both Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and appeared at their press...

33 years ago today, Ray Charles was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which would seem to be the perfect time to spotlight some of his most rockin’ hits. Instead, however, we’re going to play the contrarian...

50 years ago today, Neil Young released his self-titled debut album, kicking off a solo career which remains one of the most eclectic in rock ‘n’ roll history…except not really, because the album had actually already come out a few...

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, not to mention the week before, so that would seem to imply that either...

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...