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50 years ago this month, Herbie Mann released the album that found him using his skills as a jazz flautist to further listeners’ education of music from the Middle East. Mann had a long history of taking his flute and...

Given the success of her bio-pic, What’s Love Got to Do with It, we’d understand if you thought that you knew pretty much all you needed to know about Tina Turner. You don’t, though. There’s always some additional tidbit of...

35 years ago this month, Genesis released their third live album, little realizing that kids three-and-a-half decades later would have little or no frame of reference to audio formats involving sides. When THREE SIDES LIVE was originally released in North...

Whenever a band releases a new album, it generally inspires fans to take a step back and give a good listen to all of the other albums in the band’s back catalog. As such, since Depeche Mode released their latest...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to frequent visitors to Rhino.com that this year marks the 60th anniversary of Stax Records – we’ve mentioned it before, and we’ve also made a point of hyping how we’ve teamed with the fine...

25 years ago today, Black Sabbath released their 16th studio album, an effort made particularly notable by being the first LP by the band to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals in more than a decade. “After Ronnie departed back...

Here’s one thing you probably know about the MC5 even if you don’t know anything else about the MC5: they’re the band who gave us the phrase, “Kick out the jams, mother fuckers!” That alone would have secured their permanent...

35 years ago this month, Fleetwood Mac released their 13th studio album, and while 13 might be an unlucky number for some, it proved to be pretty fortuitous for the band. Well, at least in terms of the album’s success...

43 years ago today, an event known as the Bucolic Frolic took place, and let's be honest: this is one of the greatest names any music festival has ever had. Unfortunately, that name fell by the wayside over the years...