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Everybody’s had a case of the Mondays at some point or other, but in order to try and lift you out of the darkness and bring you into the light, we’re starting a new feature: “Heavy Metal Monday,” wherein we...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Jay Jay French, guitarist and founding member of Twisted Sister. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve put together a list of five things that you may not have known about Jay Jay, but we also...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Bernie Leadon, a multi-instrumentalist who’s worked with tons of talented folks but is ultimately best known as a former member of the Eagles. To commemorate this occasion, we’ve put together a list of five...

16 years ago today, the city of Philadelphia officially declared it to be Solomon Burke Day in the city. 2002 was a good year for Solomon Burke, who’d found considerable success in the 1950s and 1960s with singles like “Just...

Throughout their existence as a band, the Grateful Dead made their reputation largely on the road, playing long shows with long jams and giving audiences long, strange trips every time they took the stage. When they were in their peak...

17 years ago this week, Michelle Branch released the opening track from her debut Maverick Records album as a single, resulting in a top-20 hit for the singer-songwriter. “Everywhere,” like the rest of the songs on THE SPIRIT ROOM, is...

27 years ago today, the first date of the first Lollapalooza festival took place, offering concertgoers the opportunity to see several of their favorite alt-rock artists back to back in a day-long extravaganza. Devised by Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell,...

37 years ago today, the soundtrack to a comedic motion picture about a loveable drunk named Arthur Bach first hit record store shelves, bringing with it the first opportunity for consumers to pick up not only Christopher Cross’s theme song...

While we continue to wait for scientists to crack the nut that is time travel, there’s still a way that we can be transported through the mists of time to the 1980s, and that’s through the power of music. As...