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Who can blame a young band who have had a big hit, for cutting another song from the same cloth, in an effort to score another hit? It's not a particularly novel or creative approach to songwriting or record making...

50 years ago this month, Otis Redding released his only live album to land in record stores during his lifetime. Recorded at Paris’s Olympia Theater during the Stax/Volt tour of Europe, LIVE IN EUROPE finds Redding being backed by a...

Today we celebrate a single that might never have found its way into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 if one of its two co-writers hadn’t convinced the other that its simplicity was worth pursuing. “Dance With Me”...

If you’ve checked the weather forecast lately, then you know that summer is still raging on, as is Rhino’s celebration of the Summer of Love. This week, we’ve got four special vinyl reissues, a new Monkees compilation spotlighting their psychedelic...

Today’s the birthday of longtime Black Sabbath member Geezer Butler, and when we use the word “longtime” to describe his tenure, we’re not kidding around. In fact, he was so devoted to the band that even during the windows in...

Today’s the birthday of Ron Asheton of The Stooges, so if you feel the need to run put on one of the band’s classic albums, we understand completely. In fact, we’re even encouraging it, hence the inclusion of our official...

When it comes to all-time-best best-of collections, one of the great one-two punches in rock history is The Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits Vol. 2, a two-fer that covers their career – well, the pre-reunion years, anyway –...

Ahoy, ‘Trane spotters! Remember not long ago when we released TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION, a nine-track compilation containing material drawn from his Atlantic Records work between 1959 and 1961, and we told you that we’d be offering up more Coltrane...

Today we celebrate the birthday of late R&B legend Gerald Levert, and although he may have left us back in 2006, he delivered a lot of smooth soul music before departing. (Not that this should come as any surprise to...