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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...

It’s time to return to the Rhino Reading Room to remind you of three artists from the Rhino catalog who are all celebrating birthdays this month and have written memoirs. You don’t necessarily have to be a big fan of...

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? • Terry...

50 years ago today, the self-titled debut album by Chicago Transit Authority went gold, but not only did it continue to sell extremely well after that accomplishment, but it actually went on to set a record with the length of...

Today we honor the life and legacy of Don Van Vliet, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist better known by his stage name, Captain Beefheart. The good Captain left us on this date in 2010, and music hasn’t been the same since,...