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It’s Mickey Hart’s birthday, which means that many of our regular readers already have it circled on their calendar, as any proper Grateful Dead fan should. In celebration of one of our favorite percussionst, we’ve compiled a list of five...

40 years ago this month, Utopia released their third studio album, the most pop-centric effort of the band’s career up to that point. Recorded at the not-coincidentally-named Utopia Sound, OOPS! WRONG PLANET emerged between two of Todd Rundgren’s solo albums...

It’s been almost a week now since the conclusion of Twin Peaks: The Return, and the world is still reeling from the way it concluded. (We can’t say “the way it ended,” because we still don’t want to believe that...

Today is Chrissie Hynde’s birthday, and although she’s known best as the lead singer of The Pretenders, she’s done plenty of stuff outside of that great band. Indeed, she’s done so much that we actually spotlighted a number of these...

25 years ago this week, Stone Temple Pilots released their song “Wicked Garden” to radio, and although it was never actually released commercially as a single, it has nonetheless gone on to become one of the most well-known songs. With...

If you grew up listening to FM radio in the ‘70s, then you know just how big a deal the late Ronnie Montrose was. Indeed, the man was nothing short of a guitar god, and many an axe man worshiped...

If you know all five of the things in the below list, then you might be a Jeff Foxworthy fan, but even if you aren’t a Jeff Foxworthy fan, you might still find these five things interesting. (That’s what we...

The 1970s was a very good decade to be Al Stewart: thanks to such major hits as “Year of the Cat,” “On the Border,” and “Time Passages,” the Glasgow-born, Dorset-raised singer/songwriter became a big name on both sides of the...

31 years ago today, Dire Straits’ blend of computer-animated shenanigans and concert footage walked away with the award for Video of the Year at the 3 rd Annual MTV Video Music Awards. When the awards ceremony kicked off at the...