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When Tori Amos toured behind her solo debut LITTLE EARTHQUAKES back in 1992, she performed alone, at a piano — a lone figure on a dimly lighted stage singing extraordinary songs with minimal accompaniment. Fast-forward seven years, to her 1999...

Given that they’re celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, it’s fair to say that Barenaked Ladies have probably reached a point in their career where most people know that there aren’t actually any ladies in their lineup, and if one...

40 years ago today, The Cars released their self-titled debut, kicking off a career path which would ultimately drive them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, THE CARS was an album which found...

June is African-American Music Appreciation Month, and it has been since June 7, 1979, when President Jimmy Carter decreed it to be so. Oh, sure, it was called Black Music Month at the time, but it’s still the same thing...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Laura Phillips Anderson, better known as Laurie, the legendary art rocker and avant-garde artist who’s arguably best known by mainstream audiences for finding her way to the penultimate spot on the UK Singles chart...

On February 2, 1968, London’s famed Marquee Club played host to the very first live performance by Jethro Tull. That’s the band Jethro Tull, mind you, rather than the inventor of the seed drill, who was reportedly not much of...

Back in the dark ages, i.e. before streaming became a big deal, the most substantial way for new artists to break it big was via word of mouth, which is precisely how Damien Rice first managed to find substantial success...

Right about this time last year, Rhino released a ZZ Top vinyl box set entitled CINCO: THE FIRST FIVE LPS, and its contents consisted of – spoiler alert! – the band’s first five albums. Now that the band’s fans have...

On April 2, Emmylou Harris fans were given a gift: the news that Rhino would soon be reissuing Harris’s 1985 album THE BALLAD OF SALLY ROSE in expanded form…and, no, the fact that this news was delivered on her birthday...