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20 years ago this month, Mudhoney released their third and final album for Reprise Records, a trifecta which helped cement their reputation as one of the strongest bands of the so-called grunge movement. Produced by the band with Jim Dickinson...

What do you do when you make one of the great hard rock albums of all time — a record that at the time was representative of a new kind of playing, yet still juvenile and fun, and decades later...

30 years ago today, James released their second and final album for Sire Records, and given the level of success it found at the time, it’s somewhat remarkable that the band managed not only to release a third album –...

50 years ago today, pop star Cilla Black briefly became a movie star in America, thanks to the US release of her first film as a leading lady. Unfortunately, it was also her last film as a leading lady, but...

33 years ago today, Book of Love released their second single, providing them not only with a top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart but – more than a few years down the line – the title...

Today we celebrate the birthday of the man who put the “Gerry” in Gerry and the Pacemakers: living Liverpool legend Gerry Marsden. Born in – you guessed it – Liverpool, Gerard Marsen would soon become known as “Gerry” as well...

10 years ago this week, Jenny Lewis released her first official album as a solo artist. Some would argue that ACID TONGUE was actually her second solo album and, in doing so, would cite RABBIT FUR COAT – released in...

It was considerably more than 17 days ago when we first told you that Warner Brothers was going to be teaming up with the Prince Estate to release PIANO & A MICROPHONE 1983, a nine track, 35-minute album featuring a...

The MC5 were one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands to emerge in the 1960s, and the number of individuals who respect and revere the music they recorded and released in their heyday has multiplied over the years. If...