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Today’s Rhino birthday boy is probably best known these days for his work with either Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, or – to a slightly lesser extent – Them Crooked Vultures, but there was once a...

34 years ago today, Prince released his first single with the Revolution as his backing band and provided a generation with an instant retort to any traumatizing moment in their lives: “So this is what it sounds like when doves...

On this edition of THE RHINO PODCAST, host Dennis is in the booth with the one and only Micky Dolenz and Monkees reissue producer Andrew Sandoval to talk playing concerts in supermarket parking lots, Don Kirshner, JC Penney, long hair...

20 years ago today, the Kronos Quartet released a tribute to a noted Russian composer which can best be described as “startling.” That’s not a critique of the Kronos Quartet, mind you, but a descriptor of the string quartets they’re...

52 years ago this month, Trini Lopez released his 12th album on Reprise Records, which is an impressive accomplishment by itself, but it’s made even more so by the fact that Lopez’s stint on the label only started in 1963...

15 years ago today, a man described as an “Elektra recording artist slash-a political activist-a” made his debut as a character on The Simpsons. In the episode entitled “Brake My Wife, Please,” which aired during the show’s fourteenth season, Jackson...

25 years ago this week, Dire Straits released the second live album of their existence, giving their newer fans an opportunity to hear in-concert versions of some of their hugest hits from the then-recent past. Recorded in Nîmes, France and...

Today we celebrate the birthday of John Simon Ritchie, Jr., but you can call him “Sid,” or if you want to go all out, you can refer to him by the full name under which he achieved his fame: Sid...

44 years ago today, Led Zeppelin officially launched their very own record label, one which would – in addition to serving as a home for their own material – also released LPs by Bad Company, Dave Edmunds, the Pretty Things...