this day in music

27 years ago today, Don Henley demonstrated his love for Henry David Thoreau by doing his part to save Walden Woods from destruction. After discovering that publisher-developer Mortimer Zuckerman was planning to take an 18.5-acre parcel of land and put...

25 years ago today, Pantera landed atop the Billboard 200 with an album which conclusively proved that, although grunge might’ve helped put to rest the musical scourge known as hair metal a few years earlier, real heavy metal was alive,...

40 years ago today, Kate Bush kicked off her very first concert tour, one which lasted for a little over a month and left audiences speechless with the way Bush had expressed her creative vision. With her popularity rising rapidly...

45 years ago today, the members of the band formerly known as Jefferson Airplane kicked off their first under a new moniker, one which would last them until the day they decided to do away with the Jefferson, but the...

23 years ago today, Alanis Morissette was the queen of 38 th Grammy Awards, taking home four awards and cementing her status as a superstar. Given the success of her JAGGED LITTLE PILL album over the course of the preceding...

38 years ago today, Firefall appeared on American Bandstand to promote their album CLOUDS ACROSS THE SUN. When we originally started work on the piece, it was with the belief that this appearance was Firefall’s one and only time appearing...

61 years ago today, Richard Wayne Penniman – better known to rock ‘n’ roll fans as Little Richard – set aside the super-secular songs that had made him one of the most popular of the early rock ‘n’ rollers and...

41 years ago today, one of the greatest music and comedy crossovers of all time took place on prime-time television. That’s right: we’re talking about that time the Doobie Brothers guest-starred on What’s Happening!! If it seems like an unlikely...

50 years ago today, Jethro Tull stepped onstage to play their inaugural performance in the United States…and apparently either they liked it or America liked it, because five decades later, they’re still playing dates across the U.S. of A.! The...