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15 years ago this week, the Goo Goo Dolls released their seventh studio album, an effort which took them into the top five of the Billboard 200 for the first time in their career. Recorded variously at Icon Recording Studios...

38 years ago today, The Doobie Brothers landed atop the Billboard 200 with their eighth studio album. After the success of 1976’s TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS, the Doobies’ first album with Michael McDonald as their lead singer, it looked...

21 years ago today, Tracy Chapman had a single enter the Billboard Hot 100 which would go on to become the biggest US hit of her career. Maybe that’s because American TV viewers had already been given a chance to...

43 years ago today, Deep Purple performed a show at the Ontario Speedway – it’s near Los Angeles, in case you’re wondering – which was aired live by ABC. The show in question wasn’t just a performance by Deep Purple...

This week Dr. Rhino presents, F: The Next Logical Step. ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. As the attending physician recalls, the...

42 years ago today, America entered the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that was inspired the work that one of their peers had been doing, and the inspiration must have been pretty profound: it went on to become the...

45 years ago today, Graham Nash and David Crosby released the first of their four studio albums as a duo. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are a textbook example of a group that all but requires you to keep a...

45 years ago today, ZZ Top released their sophomore LP, an album which didn’t feature much in the way of hit singles but nonetheless paved the way for their real breakthrough album, TRES HOMBRES, the following year. Recorded at Robin...

25 years ago this month, the Sisters of Mercy released a compilation of their studio recordings from 1980 through 1983. It’s a dark piece of work, to be sure, but it’s filled with some of the most iconic material of...