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25 years ago tomorrow, the world will celebrate the 25 th anniversary of the release of Ministry’s fifth album, an LP which proved to be not only the most commercially success album of the band’s career but also the only...

Make It a Double: Prince, 1999 By 1982, anyone with ears could tell that Prince was special—DIRTY MIND (1980) and CONTROVERSY (1981) moved the needle from lascivious to downright filthy, both in lyrical content and groove, and a single like...

Today we celebrate the birthday of a woman who was born Perfect and has remained pretty darned stellar even after setting aside her maiden name: Christine McVie. As you might expect, we can’t resist using this occasion to remind you...

Seven years ago today, Jewel filmed a video for Funny or Die that made her the talk of the internet for…oh, let’s go with Andy Warhol’s axiom and say it lasted for probably 15 minutes or so. Still, it was...

The longstanding joke about the ‘60s is that if you remember them, you weren’t there, but just because you don’t remember them doesn’t mean you can’t revisit them. This year marks the 50 th anniversary of the legendary Summer of...

During the course of their years as a couple, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett recorded several strong albums and made a lot of big-name friends, as you can see by checking the credits of any of those LPs, but how much...

The late, great heavy metal rocker Ronald James Padavona was was born on this day in 1942 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but you know him better by the pseudonym he adopted in order to rock harder (we presume): Ronnie James...

45 years ago today, Chicago finally decided to take it easy on themselves, releasing the first single album of their career. That’s right: up to this point, Chicago had been so darned prolific with their collective songwriting acumen that their...

It was six decades ago this past spring that Atlantic Records kicked off a little something called the Rock & Roll series, wherein the label would compile collections of hit singles from the greatest new artists of the day. To...