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Now Available: Led Zeppelin, HOW THE WEST WAS WON (Article)
Friday, March 23, 2018
We’re only about six months away from celebrating the 50th anniversary of that fateful day in Gladsaxe, Denmark when John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant first stepped onstage together. Yes, they were billed at the time as The New Yardbirds, but given the foursome in question, surely we all know that it was, for all practical purposes, the first live performance by Led Zeppelin…and surely it will neither shock nor amaze you to learn that Rhino will be celebrating this momentous anniversary in a big way when September 7 rolls around. Still, six months is a long time when
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Out Now: Grateful Dead, GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE VOL. 1 (Article)
Friday, March 23, 2018
When most people think of The Grateful Dead’s music, they think not of the work the band did in the studio but of the band’s live performances. That’s not to dismiss their studio albums – as if we’d ever do such a thing! – but simply to underline that the Dead were true road warriors who made their bones in concert, turning in a record-breaking 2,318 performances between 1965 and 1995. Oh, and in case you were wondering, yes, the “bones” joke was intentional. We’re just that hilarious. But now let’s get serious: we’ve got a new Grateful Dead live collection – the ultimate live collection, some
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Instant Gratification: The Cars, “Shake It Up” (DEMO) (Article)
Monday, March 26, 2018
It seems like only yesterday that we let slip the info that Rhino would be releasing expanded editions of two classic Cars albums – SHAKE IT UP and HEARTBEAT CITY – in the very near future. Well, friends, the future is almost here: these reissues will be arriving this Friday, and when they do, you’ll find that they feature the 2016 remastered versions of the original albums, rare and previously-unreleased bonus tracks, and illustrated booklets featuring new interviews with Ric Ocasek and David Robinson as well as liner notes by noted rock critic David Fricke. When we told you about these
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Happy 35th: ZZ Top, ELIMINATOR (Article)
Monday, March 26, 2018
35 years ago this month, ZZ Top released their eighth studio album, an LP which found the trio of Texans becoming MTV darlings and, in turn, finding themselves with the biggest-selling album of their career. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, ELIMINATOR was produced by Bill Ham, who’d been working with ZZ Top since the release of their first album – the cleverly-titled ZZ TOP’S FIRST ALBUM – in 1971. The band had already been using synthesizers in their songs on their previous album, 1981’s EL LOCO, but they wanted to embrace that sound even more this time around. The end result
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Single Stories: Bread, “If” (Article)
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
47 years ago this week, Bread released the second single from their third album, a song that muscled its way up the Billboard Hot 100 – well, you know, inasmuch as a soft-pop single can muscle its way up anything – and settled in the top five. Produced by David Gates and co-written by Gates and Waleen Johnson, “If” followed on the heels of “Let Your Love Go,” the first single from Bread’s MANNA album. While that track was a top-30 hit, climbing to #28, its success wasn’t on par with the band’s previous pair of singles, “Make It With You” and “It Don’t Matter to Me,” which hit #1 and #10
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This Day in 1970: Faces, FIRST STEP (Article)
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
48 years ago today, the Faces released their debut album, its title aptly describing how the LP was only just the beginning of what the band had to offer. Produced by the band and recorded between August 1969 and January 1970 at De Lane Lea Studios in London, FIRST STEP is, at least in terms of songwriting credits, arguably the most democratic album ever released by the Faces, with each member of the band having their name on at least one song. Whether you want to consider this coincidence or not, it’s also the single longest album ever released by the band, which doubtlessly helped in terms
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Happy 45th: Fleetwood Mac, PENGUIN (Article)
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
45 years ago this month, Fleetwood Mac released their seventh studio album, an LP which was the first with a new member, the first without an old member, and the only one with a member who you may not remember, since it was the only album by the band on which he appeared. Co-produced by Martin Birch with the band and recorded at the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio in Benifold, Hampshire, PENGUIN was – as you likely deduced from that opening paragraph – an album of considerable transition for Fleetwood Mac: it was the first one released by the band after Danny Kirwan was fired by the band, it was
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Out Now: The Cars, SHAKE IT UP / HEARTBEAT CITY – Expanded Editions (Article)
Friday, March 30, 2018
The wait is over. The time is here. The new deluxe editions of The Cars’ SHAKE IT UP and HEARTBEAT CITY are available from your favorite music retailer even as we type these words. Truly, this is a good Friday! But, hey, maybe you missed the memo and don’t have any idea what we’re on about. Far be it from us to leave you in the lurch! We’ll just cover our bases and go over the details one more time, shall we? In April, The Cars will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which seemed like a sufficiently momentous occasion to bring out the latest two deluxe reissues of albums from the
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Single Stories: Van Halen, “Jump” (as heard in Ready Player One) (Article)
Monday, April 2, 2018
It remains the most popular single ever released by Van Halen, and it’s such a definitively ‘80s song that it’s used as a touchstone for the decade in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic adaptation of Ready Player One, but do you know the origins of “Jump”? If you don’t, well, don’t worry: we’re about to take care of that omission in your pop culture education. In 1981, Eddie Van Halen penned the synth line of “Jump,” but his bandmates were sufficiently unimpressed as to opt out of doing anything with it at the time. (Whoops!) A few years later, producer Ted Templeman approached David Lee Roth and
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Happy 30th: Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car” (Article)
Monday, April 2, 2018
30 years ago on April 1st, Tracy Chapman released the first single from her self-titled debut album, a song which would quickly define Chapman’s career as a folk-pop singer and prove to be one of the most enduring songs of the 1980s. Written by Chapman herself, “Fast Car” tells the tale of a woman trying to battle her way out of poverty, no matter how futile her efforts may appear to be. It would be fair to say that folk-pop was not all the rage at the time, so it can’t be overstated how remarkable it was for Chapman to have taken over the pop charts with her song. Part of that success is
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