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Although he’s no longer with us, today we celebrate the life of Daniel Milton Peek, known to his friends as Dan and known to the world at large as one of the members of America from 1970 through 1977. Peek...

38 years ago this month, ZZ Top released their sixth studio album, and we didn’t have to love it like we did, but we did…and we thank them. Produced by Bill Ham, who’d also twiddled the knobs for all of...

It’s Halloween, which would be the perfect time to play up some of the scariest songs of all time, but we thought we’d defy expectations and go in a different direction: we’re spotlighting five albums from our catalog which –...

Once he was the guitarist for The Smiths, but he’s done so much and played with so many other artists since those days that it feels more than a little bit limiting to try and shove him solely into the...

27 years ago today, Madonna released the single which served as one of the obligatory new tracks on her first greatest-hits collection. Written by Lenny Kravitz, Ingrid Chavez, and Madonna, “Justify My Love” was originally recorded by Chavez – she...

When Whitesnake was founded in 1978, David Coverdale was already a star in the UK, having fronted Deep Purple from 1973-1976 and then followed his stint with that band with a solo career. The decision to start his own band...

When Edinburgh-born brothers Charlie and Craig Reid first burst onto the scene in 1983 as The Proclaimers, they had a built-in gimmick before they ever opened their mouths: they were identical twins. Mind you, as soon as they did open...

A.D. hitting stores – if you missed that announcement, you can read it by clicking right here – and when we gave you all the details on that particular release, we casually mentioned that we would actually be reissuing two...

When you read the title of this piece, it could be slightly misleading, so we’d better clarify what it means: what we actually want is for you to have a killer soundtrack for whatever Halloween goings-on you’ve got on your...