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48 years ago today, Led Zeppelin played a song from LED ZEPPELIN IV, and while that would normally not be all that big a deal, it becomes one when history subsequently reveals that they never played it again. Written by...

Say there, sport, do you know Lily Allen? Oh, you don’t, eh? Hmm. You must be American. Well, look, pal, get this through your skull: you oughta know Lily Allen! Why? Oh, don’t you worry, friend: you’d better believe that...

It’s a long-standing tradition in comedies that the schlubby leading man, no matter how unlikely it may seem, somehow always seems to end up with a gorgeous girl, and if Seth Rogen has proven nothing else in his cinematic career...

New 50-Song Collection Goin' 50 Spans The Texas Trio's Entire Recording Career As 3-CD And 5-LP Sets Available August 16 Single CD And Digital Versions Available June 14 ZZ Top 50th Anniversary North American Kicks Off With "Texas Bash" Dates...

Led Zeppelin’s second record confirmed the band to be not only a top concert draw and the thunder-bringing gods of a new hard rock sound (new for 1969, at least), but also a burgeoning commercial concern, as well. The strong...

Gosh, has it really been five years since we wrote about this classic album for its 55 th anniversary? Apparently so, because here it is turning the big 6-0. Produced by Nesuhi Ertegun, it doesn’t really do THE BALLAD ARTISTRY...

• Yes, “Something’s Coming” (1969): Given just how original their original material was, it’s often dismissed that Yes started their career by playing covers, even including a couple of them on their debut album. "But what covers they were, given...

40 years ago this week, The Ramones released their first official live album, a 2-LP affair in which the bruddahs managed to squeeze 28 songs into a 53-minute run time. (Yeah, we know: it’s really not all that shocking when...

20 years ago today, Tom Petty started letting people walk all over him. Not because he’d suddenly become a soft touch, but because he and the Heartbreakers were given their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On...