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50 years ago today, Cilla Black released “It’s for You,” the second of three tunes that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote and passed along to her rather than recording them as Beatles songs. In his book The Unreleased Beatles...

New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes: Theodore Bikel, An Actor's Holiday / Folk Songs Of Israel / Jewish Folk Songs / Songs Of A Russian Gypsy / Folk Songs From Just About Everywhere / Bravo Bikel! -...

Let’s get small, while this wild and crazy guy shows us that comedy is not pretty. Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Martin! ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front...

35 years ago today, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, and Tony Thompson, along with singers Alfa Anderson and Luci Martin, released an album which kicked off with one of the greatest grooves of Chic’s career while promising – and absolutely delivering...

Get the Best of 2-Tone Vinyl Get The Specials - Live At The Moonlight Club In recent years, the sight of a porkpie hat has inspired most people to think of one word – Heisenberg – but prior to the...

Get the Twin Peaks Original Soundtrack Get Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Get the Twin Peaks Original Soundtrack Get Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me If you’ve seen an exorbitant number of pieces being posted about Twin Peaks lately...

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that there was once a time when instrumental artists could find significant chart success on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s not as though it’s completely unheard of nowadays, but if you look back at the...

Between late 1979 and early 1980, four brothers from Ohio took their band into a studio in Detroit and laid down some serious funk, and 34 years ago today, Warner Brothers put that funk out, throwing their substantial corporate weight...

Townes Van Zandt has had many acolytes over the past 40 years, but it's Lyle Lovett who grabbed, and held, my attention. A lover, and performer, or various genres - from country, jazz, blues and Tejano - to standards from...