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38 years ago today, Led Zeppelin’s concert film The Song Remains the Same had its world premiere at Cinema I in New York City, finally bringing to fruition an idea that had first crossed the band’s mind way back in...

David T. Walker covering Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay", Bobby Womack's take on "California Dreaming," and The Brymers doing "House of the Rising Sun" - three covers out of twenty tracks this week. The remainder of the set spans 40 years...

This week’s Mono Monday release is perhaps best known for being Ray Charles’ final offering during his tenure with Atlantic Records during the late 1950s and early 1960s, but while one might expect it to feel slightly schizophrenic, given that...

34 years ago today, Dire Straits released Making Movies, an album which failed to change the band’s then-declining chart fortunes in the US – their debut hit #2, but their sophomore effort, Communiqué, only climbed to #11, and this one...

50 years ago today, Manfred Mann found themselves atop the Billboard Hot 100 for the only time in their career, but if you’re only going to hit the top spot once, then it might as well be with a song...

500 MILES Could be the first Peter, Paul and Mary track I ever heard. A staple at summer camp, it was emblematic of the folk boom, hell, we even had a folk TV show, "Hootenanny." Everybody knew the lyrics and...

It’s been buzzed about for several days now that Foo Fighters would be spending a full week as the musical guests on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman, but we were as surprised as anyone when we found out...

On October 15, 2006, one of the most famous concert venues in rock history held its final performance, which means that today marks the eight anniversary of a lot of music fans waking up to the end of an era...

If you came of age during the ‘70s and ‘80s, then it’s hard to imagine that the soundtrack of your life didn’t include a few Foreigner songs, be it the pleading of “I Want to Know What Love Is,” the...