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The Get Tough on Toxics benefit concert was a pretty big deal in 1986. It was an event which was designed to both draw attention to and raise money in order to support two environmental initiatives in California: Proposition 65...

52 years ago today, The Association’s most durable hit single made its debut on the Hot 100. That’s not to say that it’s your personal favorite, but given how successful it was at the time of its release and how...

35 years ago this week, Spandau Ballet released the single that would go on to become the second biggest hit of their career, and if we have to tell you what song it sits behind, then we can only presume...

It doesn’t exactly count as breaking news to learn that the Grateful Dead had a tendency to tour, which means it’s far from a shock to find that those tours often took them to the Pacific Northwest, but it might...

When it comes to classics, Led Zeppelin have plenty of albums which qualify for that descriptor, but they’ve got a concert film that makes the cut, too: THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, which documents the band’s performances at New York’s...

30 years ago today, Jane’s Addiction released their first full-length studio album, NOTHING’S SHOCKING. While Billboard did an outstanding job of detailing the origins and making of the LP in a new oral history of the album, we thought we’d...

30 years ago today, Bad Company released their second album with Brian Howe fronting the band, and the end result accomplished something that their previous LP had failed to do: it helped bring them back into the upper reaches of...

Warren Zevon’s recorded output prior to 1980’s live album STAND IN THE FIRE found him to be an excellent songwriter, a fine singer and a masterful selector of sympathetic musicians who could (and did) place his songs in the best...

46 years ago today, Jack Nitzsche quietly released an orchestral album which took its title from the location of its recording. Although he first came to the attention of music fans for his 1963 song “The Lonely Surfer,” Nitzsche soon...