deep dive

It’s National Women’s History Month, and if you’ve been checking out Rhino.com since March began, then you know that we’re making a concerted effort to utilize a number of our regular features as opportunities to spotlight female artists. Today, we’re...

It’s Black History Month, and you’ve probably noticed that we’ve been commemorating the occasion by commandeering many of our regular features to spotlight black artists. Today we’re doing a deep dive that we’ve actually done before, but it’s such a...

As you probably know, February is Black History Month, and as such, we’ve been commandeering some of our regular features and utilizing them to spotlight artists to commemorate the occasion. Today, we’re taking another Deep Dive, this time to check...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Kate Wolf, the late, great singer-songwriter who managed to make a major impact on folk scene – first as a member of the band Wildwood Flower, then as a solo artist – before succumbing...

Today we remember the late, great R&B singer-songwriter Donny Hathaway, who died on this date in 1979, and we do so by taking a deep dive into his back catalog and taking a look at the soundtrack he recorded for...

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...

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...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Tom Verlaine, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his work with the band Television. Just because that’s why he’s best known, however, doesn’t mean that it’s all he’s done, which is why...

Today we celebrate the birthday of legendary singer-songwriter J.J. Cale, so we thought we’d honor the occasion with a look back at an underrated collaborative album he recorded with a certain guitar legend. Released on November 7, 2006, THE ROAD...