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New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes: Sister Sledge, The Studio Album Collection: 1975 – 1985: You know them for their hit singles, of course, but beyond “We Are Family,” “He’s the Greatest Dancer,” and the like, Sister...

The Rascals are underrated. They had tons of hits, solid album after solid album, and yet they aren’t mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles, The Stones, and other luminaries from the 1960s. The Rascals may not have had...

Last year’s Big Star documentary, Nothing Can Hurt Me, is now streaming over at Netflix…which I’ll use, here, as an excuse to highlight both the group and solo work of Chilton and Bell. If nothing went right for Big Star...

There’s always been something a bit special about Spandau Ballet: even though they may have had a look and a sound that helped cement them as ‘80s artists, a surprising amount of their music had a timelessness to it that’s...

If you consider yourself a bass player and you don’t hold Jaco Pastorius in the highest esteem, then we can only presume you’ve never really listened to the man, because he’s one of those guys whose work with the instrument...

This week’s Mono Monday release is a compilation rather than a studio album, but it’s an important compilation, one which provides a glimpse into the New Orleans sound circa the late 1940s and early 1950s via the early recordings of...

On October 5, 1993, the band Afghan Whigs, who’d self-released their debut album, 1988’s Big Top Halloween, and then came of age with a pair of albums on Sub Pop Records (1990’s Up in It and 1992’s Congregation), finally made...

22 years ago today, Athens, Georgia’s favorite sons earned their second #1 album in the UK when Automatic for the People premiered atop the British charts, a position the album never earned in America. The follow-up to 1991’s Out of...

"Rocky Mountain High" John Denver Love him or loathe him, if you're not enamored of this song you're not a friend of mine. From the acoustic intro you're immediately transported to a place of fresh air where your troubles have...