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Last month, you may have noticed that we released a big ol’ seven-album set collecting Dr. John’s Atco output from 1968 through 1974, but if you’re not really familiar with the good Doctor’s output, then we can understand if you...

"Townes was a holy mess, his life a mix of the sublime and the horrific. By the time he died of a heart attack at 52 on New Year’s Day, 1997, the Fort Worth native had written a large batch...

33 years ago today, one of the most enduring compilation albums from the man called “the Peter Pan of Pop” landed at #1 on the UK charts, where it remained for a total of five weeks. As avowed fans of...

SHERRY It was not like today, there was no Disney Channel, never mind Disney Radio. All we had were three networks, a few independents and...our transistors. They were the iPods of the day, everybody was constantly buying new ones, for...

"If every concert tells a tale, then every tour writes an epic. Spring 1990 felt that way: an epic with more than its share of genius and drama, brilliance and tension. And that is why the rest of the music...

Were he still walking among us, today would’ve been Ronnie James Dio’s 72nd birthday, and there’s no question that it’s depressing to recall that, alas, he succumbed to stomach cancer on May 16, 2010, but with the release earlier this...

Screw it. Let’s play some INXS. 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 tune was “Touch Me...

38 years ago today, Rod Stewart found himself sitting atop Billboard’s Top 200 album chart with A Night on the Town, an effort so beloved that it continues to be held up by fans as one of the reasons why...

19 years ago today, when Jerry Garcia stepped off the stage after the Grateful Dead’s performance at Soldier Field, neither he nor anyone else knew that he’d just completed what would prove to be his final concert as the band’s...