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Happy Birthday: Tom Johnston (Article)
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Today we celebrate the birthday of Tom Johnston, best known as the frontman of the Doobie Brothers prior to Michael McDonald stepping in. In celebration, here are four facts about Mr. Johnston, some of which you may know and some of which may be news to you. Either way, we hope you’ll wish the gentleman the best of all possible birthdays if you’re able to do so, and if you’re not, then you can still celebrate by listening to the music. His friends call him Tommy. Actually, we don’t know for a fact that this is true. But we do know that it’s how he’s credited for his performance on Nicolette
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Deep Dive: Warren Zevon, BAD LUCK STREAK IN DANCING SCHOOL (Article)
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
There are precious few songs in the pantheon of rock music which include in their lyrics the word “brucellosis.” In fact, as far as we know, there’s still only one, and it features on this album. BAD LUCK STREAK IN DANCING SCHOOL was Warren Zevon’s fourth studio album, and it took a full-fledged intervention to get it made, so deep was Zevon in the throes of his oft-documented alcoholism. The intervention didn’t take, unfortunately, but the album managed to get made nonetheless, albeit in a sporadic, haphazard fashion. Interestingly, the album’s cover proved to be more controversial than any
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Out Today: Two Twin Peaks CDs (But They’re Not Twins) (Article)
Friday, September 8, 2017
It’s been almost a week now since the conclusion of Twin Peaks: The Return, and the world is still reeling from the way it concluded. (We can’t say “the way it ended,” because we still don’t want to believe that it’s all over.) Thankfully, we here at Rhino can offer at least a little bit of musical salve to fill the vacuum left by the series. As of today, you can walk into your friendly neighborhood record store – or, failing that, you can walk up to whatever electronic device you use to access the internet – and purchase not one but two CDs worth of Twin Peaks music: TWIN PEAKS: LIMITED EVENT
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Happy 40th: Utopia, OOPS! WRONG PLANET (Article)
Friday, September 8, 2017
40 years ago this month, Utopia released their third studio album, the most pop-centric effort of the band’s career up to that point. Recorded at the not-coincidentally-named Utopia Sound, OOPS! WRONG PLANET emerged between two of Todd Rundgren’s solo albums (1976’s FAITHFUL and 1978’s HERMIT OF MINK HOLLOW), and was markedly different in sound from Utopia’s previous album, RA, which had come out in February 1977. Yes, that’s right, this was an era when bands could release a second album in the span of a single year and not have their label complain about the fact that they hadn’t yet had a
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5 Mickey Hart Magic Moments (Article)
Monday, September 11, 2017
It’s Mickey Hart’s birthday, which means that many of our regular readers already have it circled on their calendar, as any proper Grateful Dead fan should. In celebration of one of our favorite percussionst, we’ve compiled a list of five magic Mickey Hart moments from the Dead’s back catalog, some from the studio and some from the band’s live shows. We’re sure you’ll have your own favorite Mickey moments, so feel free to share them in the comments…and while doing so, give these tracks a listen! 1. “ Caution (Do Not Stop on the Tracks),” ANTHEM OF THE SUN: The first Grateful Dead album to
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Single Stories: Rod Stewart, “Da’ Ya’ Think I’m Sexy” (Article)
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Remember that time Rod Stewart went disco? Sure you do! Boy, those were some good, sexy times, weren’t they? Well, now it’s time you learned the story behind the song that took our man Rod to the top of the singles charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by Stewart, Carmen Appice, and Duane Hitchings, “Da’ Ya’ Think I’m Sexy” was the first single from Stewart’s ninth solo album, BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN, and when it first emerged, it caused no end of consternation from a number of Stewart’s diehard fans, the ones who’d been following his career since he’d been singing blues-rock tracks in
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On This Day in 1987: Morrissey Goes Solo (Article)
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
30 years ago today, New Musical Express ran an article bearing the headline “GOODBYE, SMITHS” which effectively served as the kick-off of Morrissey’s career as a solo artist. “The Smiths are dead,” began the article, just in case the headline hadn’t successfully all of the band’s fans into fits of weeping. “After weeks of speculation about a replacement for Johnny Marr, NME discovered at the weekend that Morrissey intends to record under his own name in the future.” Although Morrissey himself wasn’t quoted within the piece, his spokesperson, Pat Bellis, had plenty to say on his behalf
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Happy 45th: Yes, CLOSE TO THE EDGE (Article)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
45 years ago today, Yes released their fifth studio album, an effort which proved to be their most commercially-successful LP up to that point in their career. Recorded at Advision Studios in London, CLOSE TO THE EDGE was – like THE YES ALBUM and FRAGILE before it – co-produced by the band and Eddie Offord, who’d also been keeping busy by engineering albums for Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Offord’s goal was to capture the brilliance of the band’s best live performances within a studio setting, going so far as to have Yes’s road crew construct a stage in the studio on which the band would play
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In Stores Tomorrow: Dr. John, THE ATCO ALBUMS COLLECTION (Article)
Thursday, September 14, 2017
If you’re someone who enjoys a good bayou boogaloo (providing that boogalooing is legal in your particular bayou, of course) and you live outside the U.S., then you’ll be pleased to learn that, come tomorrow, you’ll be able to pick up a copy of Dr. John’s THE ATCO ALBUMS COLLECTION. If you're in the U.S., you can grab it digitally. And don’t worry about the fact that Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun once gazed upon Dr. John’s debut album, GRIS-GRIS, and asked, “How can we market this boogaloo crap?” It’s nearly 50 years later, and Dr. John is a music legend. Does anything else even
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The One after the Big One: Madonna, LIKE A PRAYER (Article)
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Today's press- and fame-seeking celebrities (be they a Cyrus, Minaj, Kardashian or a Real Housewife from somewhere) have got nothing— nothing—on Madonna, circa 1989. Madonna could make headlines without even trying, just by being seen in public with (or without) her famous soon-to-be-ex-husband (Sean Penn); she could command a then-whopping $5 million to star in a Pepsi campaign built around the lead single off her fourth album; she could then be removed from that campaign (but keep her $5 million) by sexualizing the statue of a saint and dancing in front of burning crosses in a video for that
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