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30 years ago today, The Cure released the album that would prove to be their first entry in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 and – perhaps more impressively – would provide them with their first-ever top-40 hit on...

35 years ago this month, Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke of Yazoo – or Yaz if you’re in America or Canada – announced that they were calling it quits. To honor this admittedly depressing anniversary, we’re taking a look back...

31 years ago today, The Monkees kicked off their first proper reunion tour since the group’s original dissolution. Although Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork had made a few appearances here and there in each other’s lives and shows...

53 years ago this month, the Liverpudlian lads known as Gerry and the Pacemakers made their debut on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single that truly broke them in America. Written by the band themselves (that would be Gerry...

40 years ago this month, Roy Buchanan released the second album of the three-record stint he did with Atlantic Records in the ‘70s. Produced by Stanley Clarke and engineered variously by Bernie Kirsh, Karl Richardson, Ed Thacker, and Dave Wittman...

Three years ago today, Christine McVie was the recipient of one of the most prestigious awards in the British music industry: the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award. When you consider how many hits McVie brought to the table as a...

Rap love stories don’t come much more famous than the one between Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G., but it was a romance that was cut all too short as a result of Biggie’s murder. It’s been 20 years since...

Over the course of their career, Jethro Tull’s music has been variously described as rock, prog, and folk, but nowhere did the full trifecta come into play more wonderfully than on the band’s 10th album, SONGS FROM THE WOOD. Although...

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...