this day in music

31 years ago today, Atlantic Records celebrated their 40 th anniversary with a concert extravaganza which – although it didn’t play host to every act that called the label home over the course of those four decades – did an...

62 years ago today, The Coasters got a write-up in Billboard for their latest single that any group would happily hold up to anyone in their proximity and shout, “Look-a there!” (If you don’t know the song, just trust us...

48 years ago today, Led Zeppelin played a song from LED ZEPPELIN IV, and while that would normally not be all that big a deal, it becomes one when history subsequently reveals that they never played it again. Written by...

20 years ago today, Tom Petty started letting people walk all over him. Not because he’d suddenly become a soft touch, but because he and the Heartbreakers were given their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On...

44 years ago today, Alice Cooper debuted a conceptual art piece disguised as a TV special which also doubled – or would that be tripled? – as a promotional tool for his latest album. Directed by Jørn Winther and written...

16 years ago today, Wilco released their fourth studio album for the second time…and if the preceding information leaves you mystified, then you’ll definitely want to keep reading, if only so that you’ll understand what the heck we’re talking about...

38 years ago today, Yes officially broke up…for a bit. Picture it: the 1979 music scene. Having just scored a #1 hit in the UK with “Video Killed the Radio Star,” Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes were Yes fans, and...

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...