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47 years ago today, the former Small Faces released their first full-length album with Rod Stewart fronting the band. When Stewart entered London’s De Lane Lea Studios with Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan, and Kenney Jones to record the...

40 years ago today, Kraftwerk released their sixth album, an LP that found the German band shifting away from the realm of Krautrock in favor of a sound which is now generally identified as synthpop. Recorded at Kling Klang Studio...

Even though he was 90 years old when he died on Saturday, it was always going to be a sad day for rock and roll when we lost Chuck Berry. What made it particularly sad, however, was the knowledge that...

2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of House of Pain’s self-titled debut, an album which made listeners jump around, jump up, jump up, and get down, and in celebration of the occasion, we've reissued both this classic release...

10 years ago today, LCD Soundsystem released their sophomore studio album in the United States, having released it a week earlier in the UK. Produced by the DFA, a.k.a. Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy, SOUND OF SILVER was a much-praised...

With the Stooges and the MC5, Elektra Records had cornered the market on the proto-punk sounds emanating from Detroit in the late 1960s. The Motor City five made their debut for the label with a live album recorded during two...

You know him, you love him, you can’t live without him: he’s Paul Shaffer, formerly the bandleader for Late Night with David Letterman and The Late Show with David Letterman, and he’s back with the gang of musicians who faithfully...

37 years ago today, Twisted Sister sold out the New York Palladium without having a recording contract or any significant radio airplay. Pretty impressive stuff, no? Given that Twisted Sister found their most significant commercial success while signed to Atlantic...

54 years ago today, Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers released a single which wasn’t actually about smoking pot, although the media repeatedly tried to convince the public that it was so. #FakeNews Seriously, though, “Puff the Magic Dragon”...