deep dive

Today we celebrate the birthday of a gentleman named Hugh Laurie. Yes, we’re talking about the actor. Yes, we’re talking about the musician as well. If you didn’t know that they were one and the same, then it’s probably because...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Laura Phillips Anderson, better known as Laurie, the legendary art rocker and avant-garde artist who’s arguably best known by mainstream audiences for finding her way to the penultimate spot on the UK Singles chart...

As we head into Memorial Day weekend, we thought we’d do a Deep Dive into an underrated album by a Norwegian band whose albums beyond their debut are already pretty darned underrated to begin with. If that doesn’t qualify as...

Today’s Rhino birthday boy is probably best known these days for his work with either Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, or – to a slightly lesser extent – Them Crooked Vultures, but there was once a...

52 years ago this month, Trini Lopez released his 12th album on Reprise Records, which is an impressive accomplishment by itself, but it’s made even more so by the fact that Lopez’s stint on the label only started in 1963!...

Duane Eddy is a true guitar legend, a man known far and wide for his particularly twangy sound, but while he built his reputation on such classic instrumentals as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road,” “Because They’re Young,” and...

35 years ago this month, The B-52’s released their third studio album, little realizing that someday the LP’s anniversary would inspire Rhino Records to compose a column about the occasion for their ongoing Deep Dive feature. But here we are,...

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...

The time has come to hop in the Wayback Machine and take a trip to a time when a couple of jazz guys could team up at the Montreux Jazz Festival, release the end results of their performance, and end...