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Happy 35th: Laura Branigan, BRANIGAN 2 (Article)
Monday, March 19, 2018
35 years ago this month, Laura Branigan released her sophomore album, an LP which proved that the success of her debut album was no fluke. Produced by Jack White and Robbie Buchanan in sessions which took place at two different locations in Hollywood – Rusk Sound Studios and Allen Zentz Recording Studios – BRANIGAN 2 built on the chart success Branigan found with her single “Gloria” by following a similar format: while that song was an English adaptation of an Italian song, “Solitaire” was an adaptation of a German song. The plan worked, too, with “Solitaire” climbing to #7 on the Billboard
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Single Stories: T. Rex, “Hot Love” (Article)
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
47 years ago today, T. Rex scored their very first UK #1 hit, which makes for a darned fine excuse to spotlight this classic single. Produced by Tony Visconti, “Hot Love” was recorded at London’s Trident Studios on January 21 and 22, 1971, and it was a song full of firsts for T. Rex, starting with the fact that it was the first song by the band to feature drummer Bill Fifield, otherwise known as Bill Legend. In turn, it was also the first song by the band to include a full drum kit, since they were still in the process of evolving beyond the style of music they’d been peddling when they were
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It’s TINA Time! (Article)
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
On March 21, a new musical will be opening on London’s West End – at the Aldwych Theater, to be precise – which will offer up some seriously spectacular soul music, and it’s giving us an opportunity to shine the spotlight on a true icon in our catalog: Tina Turner. TINA: The Musical stars Adrienne Warren, who made her Broadway debut in 2012 with Bring It On and then followed it with her Tony-nominated performance in Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. Warren has proven herself up to the challenge of playing someone as iconic as Tina Turner, but
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Introducing The Rhino Podcast (Article)
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Essential music podcasts? Add ours to the top of your list because we're launching THE RHINO PODCAST, right here, right now! Our first episode focuses on punk rock pioneers the Ramones, with upcoming episodes featuring The Smiths, Gene Simmons, The Cars, The Monkees, Montrose, and many more. Every other week, we'll offer up a deep dive into classic artists and albums with music, interviews with your favorite musicians, and a wealth of behind-the-scenes stories. Tune in now for a conversation with engineer and producer Ed Stasium about the making of the Ramones’ landmark third album, ROCKET TO
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This Week in 2018: Phil Collins Performs His First Latin American Dates In Two Decades (Article)
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Yes, we know it may seem a little weird to be doing one of our This Week pieces on a week that’s taking place more or less right now, but it’s actually a pretty notable occasion: Phil Collins’ Not Dead Yet Live! tour has found him playing his first dates in Latin America in more than 20 years. The last time Collins took his live show south of the border – you know, down Mexico way? – was in 1995, when he was arguably still touring behind his 1993 album BOTH SIDES and on the cusp of entering the studio to record his 1996 album DANCE INTO THE LIGHT. If it seems like a lifetime ago to you, then
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Happy 25th: Depeche Mode, SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION (Article)
Thursday, March 22, 2018
25 years ago today, Depeche Mode released their eight studio album, an LP which proved to be the band’s first to debut at the top of both the US and UK album charts. Co-produced by the band with Mark Ellis, a man who’s far better known by his studio sobriquet, Flood, SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION found Depeche Mode embracing a darker, heavier sound, which stands to reason when you consider Flood’s history of working with artists like Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails. What also needs to be remembered, however, is that the album emerged in the midst of the grunge era, which was having an effect on
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Deep Dive: George Benson, GIVE ME THE NIGHT (Article)
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Today we celebrate the birthday of George Benson, a legend in more realms of music than we’re going to take time to count up, but we are going to set aside a few minutes and a few paragraphs to spotlight his first album of the ‘80s, an LP which not only topped both the R&B and Jazz charts but also delivered a title track which became the biggest pop hit of his career. Produced by Quincy Jones, GIVE ME THE NIGHT was actually the first album to be released on Jones’s then-new label, Qwest Records, which made it a relatively high-profile LP from the get-go. In addition, the album prominently
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Make It a Double: The Smiths, LOUDER THAN BOMBS (Article)
Thursday, March 22, 2018
How do you introduce the Smiths to the uninitiated? Certainly, the case can be made for any one of their four studio albums (with THE QUEEN IS DEAD perhaps being the most obvious choice). But they were also a great singles band, and it can be argued that their greatest impact could be felt in the two or three minutes that it took to hear a side of any of their many 45s. And while a new would-be convert will never be a teenager in the mid-‘80s hearing “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” or “Hand in Glove” or “Shoplifters of the World Unite” for the first time, those and other of the band’s singles
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The One after the Big One: David Bowie, LOW (Article)
Thursday, March 29, 2018
In 1976, David Bowie was on a commercial roll, particularly in the U.S., where in the short span of two years he had placed three studio albums and one double live record into the Top Ten (including STATION TO STATION, which hit Number Three). Personally, however, he was a mess—badly addicted to cocaine, sick of the spotlight and in serious doubt about his mental state. To escape his ills, he eventually decamped to Berlin with Iggy Pop; the two of them immersed themselves in German avant-garde music and the early minimalist recordings of ex-Roxy Music member Brian Eno, and each began writing
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Make It a Double: Little Feat, HOY-HOY! (Article)
Thursday, April 5, 2018
For a time during their ‘70s heyday, Little Feat was one of the coolest bands on the planet. There were artists that sold more records; there were artists that filled bigger concert halls; there were artists with bigger name recognition. If, however, you wanted to hear a potent combo of blues, rock, jazz, R&B and folk—if you needed to hear this salty stew of goodness—there was really only one place to go. Acts as diverse as Chico Hamilton, Robert Palmer and the Grateful Dead took it a step further, and brought in members of the band to play on and/or produce their records, trying to graft a
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