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Hey, everybody, it’s Tuesday, so you know what that means! Huh? You don’t know what that means?! Well, criminey, we just posted about this last Tuesday, so that would seem to imply that either you’re not checking out Rhino.com as...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Don Glen Vliet, who later changed his name to Don Van Vlient, but he’s better known to most music fans as Captain Beefheart. To commemorate the occasion, we thought we’d spotlight the good Captain...

53 years ago today, David Robert Jones released his first single under the pseudonym he would utilize from then on: “David Bowie.” Penned by Bowie and recorded at London’s Pye Studios with Tony Hatch producing, “Can’t Help Thinking About Me”...

45 years ago today, Carly Simon released her fourth studio album, an LP which subsequently became one of the best-selling albums of her career, thanks at least partially to the duet she performed with her then-husband, James Taylor. Produced by...

Back in September 2018, Rhino celebrated the 50 th anniversary of The Doors’ third album, and oh how the band’s fans rejoiced. Well, most of them, anyway. Granted, there were some who didn’t have enough of a cash influx to...

Today we celebrate the birthday of one Roderick David Stewart, a gentleman known to his friends, fans, and damned near everyone else as Rod. To commemorate the occasion, we thought we’d take a look back at one of his most...

30 years ago today, Emmylou Harris released an album which – as the title of this column suggests – you oughta know…and if you already know it, well, that’s okay, this’ll just remind you that you haven’t revisited it in...

Let us now survey the coolness factor of the Eagles, circa 1980. Glenn Frey was cool. Joe Walsh was cool. Don Felder was mysterious, which made him sort of cool. Don Henley was cerebral and Timothy B. Schmit mild-mannered, but...

Today we celebrate the birthday of guitar legend Jimmy Page, and in honor of this important date, here are five things you may not have have know about this iconic musician. He originally harbored dreams of becoming a biologist. It’s...