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45 years ago this week, Joni Mitchell released the album that remains – at least to a certain percentage of the population – the one for which she’s best known, owing to the fact that it contains the song which...

We’re actually six days out from the anniversary of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight,” which was originally released on January 5, 1981, but we wanted to highlight it a little early – on New Year’s Eve, specifically – because...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Paul Westerberg, the man who became an alt-rock legend by fronting The Replacements and then continued to bless his fans with solo material after the band broke up. In honor of this tremendous singer-songwriter...

Mick Jones may be known as a mainstay of the Foreigner lineup, but he’s made his way out of the band on occasion to do some side projects, and he was keeping plenty busy before he and Lou Gramm got...

To hear J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf’s scat-jive intro to “Whammer Jammer” on 1972’s FULL HOUSE is to hear a transmission from another, much funkier planet — a skiggity-strange liggity-language that kiggity-kicks off another, longer miggity-missive from one...

19 years ago today, the world lost one of the great R&B singers and songwriters: Curtis Mayfield, the man responsible for penning such classic tunes as “Gypsy Woman,” “It’s All Right,” “Keep On Pushin’” and “People Get Ready” for The...

39 years ago today, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Chicago, and J.D. Souther took the stage of the San Diego Sports Arena to stump for Ronstadt’s then-beau, Jerry Brown. It was one of the great pop-meets-politics romances of the century –...

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the most legendary female R&B singers of the 20 th century: Carla Thomas, who came by her talent honestly – her dad was Rufus Thomas – and then kicked it up a...

52 years ago this month, Wilson Pickett – or Wicked Pickett, if you prefer – did something which always thrills the telephone company to no end: he recorded a song which featured a phone number as its title. As everyone...