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44 years ago today, the band Orleans released the second single from their third album, a song which subsequently became not just the band’s first top-40 hit but, in fact, their first top-10 hit, too. The first single from LET...

When discussing artists who hit their creative and commercial stride in the ‘70s, you can’t end the conversation without talking about James Taylor, whose hits during the course of the decade included “Sweet Baby James,” “Fire And Rain,” “Don’t Let...

4CD/1LP Boxed Set Features The Group’s Don’t Tell A Soul Album Mixed As It Was Originally Intended And Expanded With Previously Unreleased Studio And Live Recordings, Including A Session With Tom Waits And A Complete 1989 Concert 
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55 years ago today, The 4 Seasons sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 with yet another tune penned by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, this one inspired by an industrious little girl Gaudio happened across. Produced by Crewe, “Rag Doll”...

50 years ago today, The Doors released their fourth album, an effort which found the foursome stepping a bit outside the box from their sounds of their previous LPs and embracing brass and string arrangements. “It was to be a...

During the time he walked this planet, Thin Lizzy singer and bassist Phil Lynott was a hero, a demi-god, 6’ 1” of pure, swaggering Irish cool. He made anthems for the working man – indelible songs like “The Boys are...

Morrissey surpassed the commercial success of his former band the Smiths after the singer-lyricist launched a solo career in 1988. Over the next 10 years, “Moz” released six studio album and a string of hit singles before going on a...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Geezer Butler, bassist for Black Sabbath and one of the few musicians with a nickname that prepared him for old age decades before he got there. To commemorate the date of Butler’s birth, please...

It’s Wednesday, so it must be time to take another dip into the Rhino catalog and trot out a new quartet of cover songs that you may or may not have heard before. Let’s get started, shall we? This week,...