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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...

The Christmas season is on the cusp of switching over from “just around the corner” to “almost here,” which means that the number of days you’ve got left to comfortably listen to holiday tunes without getting funny looks is down...

40 years ago this week, Christopher Cross released his self-titled debut album, an LP which was so incredibly successful that it both made him a superstar and made it damned near impossible for his second album. Although he’s considered one...

FOURTH ANNUAL “DAY OF THE DOORS” TO TAKE PLACE AT THE ORIGINAL MORRISON HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES ON JANUARY 4, 2020 FAÇADE OF HOTEL TO BE RESTORED TO AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE ORIGINAL MORRISON HOTEL ALBUM COVER ROBBY KRIEGER...

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...

In today’s installment of Single Stories, we’re taking a long, strange trip into the history of one of the Grateful Dead’s most famous tunes, a song which ran for only two minutes and 44 seconds when it was released as...

When you think of Sheila E. and the artist with whom she’s most often associated, there’s really only one thought that tends to come to mind: Prince. That’s fair, since he’s the one who kick-started her career, thanks to penning...

33 years ago today, The Smiths performed their final show, bringing to an end to the band’s concert career and starting a still-ongoing line of questioning by the British press: “Will The Smiths reunite?” The show in question, which took...

It’s Wednesday, so it must be time to take another dip into the Rhino catalog and trot out a new quartet of cover songs that you may or may not have heard before. This time, we’re putting a holiday spin...