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You won’t find this Friday’s new vinyl reissue sitting on a park bench eyeing girls with bad intent, and given that we’re smack dab in the middle of the #MeToo movement, that’s probably for the best. If you’re an AQUALUNG...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Randall Stuart Newman, but you can call him Randy…or at least you can try. All things being equal, though, you’d probably get a far better response by addressing him as “Mr. Newman.” He might...

30 years ago this holiday season, Chris Rea released a single which he’d written 10 years before he recorded it, but despite sitting on it for a decade, the track has continued to find regular seasonal airplay throughout the intervening...

It was 50 years ago this week that Van Morrison released ASTRAL WEEKS, an album which is to Morrison’s back catalog what PET SOUNDS is to the Beach Boys’ discography. In other words, it’s damned near as perfect an album...

Today we celebrate Al Jackson, the legendary percussionist who sat behind the kit for Booker T. & The M.G.’s during their ‘60s heyday, into the ‘70s, and until his death in 1975. To celebrate the date, we’ve got the most...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Anna Mae Bullock, but if you don’t know her by that particular name, we’re sure you know her under the name she’s been utilizing throughout her lengthy career: Tina Turner. To commemorate the occasion,...

40 years ago this week, Chic took their third single to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, earning the first #1 hit of their career. Co-written by Rodgers and his longtime collaborator, Bernard Edwards, “Le Freak” was written as...

1981’s ABACAB put Genesis into the Top 10 of the U.S. album chart for the first time, cementing the trio of Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks as arena-packing mainstream artists. As little as six years prior, this was...

We know the past few weeks have probably been as much of a blur to you as they have been to us, but if you search your mind (or at least this website), you’ll recall how Rhino recently announced the...