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Today we celebrate the birthday of John Anthony Gillis, a man who subsequently married a young lady named Megan White, decided to reverse marital tradition and take his wife’s last name, and subsequently became a huge rock star. Oh, right...

41 years ago today, Elvis Costello officially submitted his walking papers to the factory where he’d been holding gainful employment in order to pursue rock ‘n’ roll full-time a move which was not only best possible career move that he...

20 years ago this week – on July 7, to be precise – Barenaked Ladies released their fourth studio album, otherwise known as the LP which provided them with their biggest hit single to date. Produced by the band with...

Today we celebrate the birthday of self-described “folkabilly” singer Nanci Griffith, and we do so by diving deep into her catalog and saying a few words about one of her albums that might have flown under your radar: FLYER, which...

Prior to recording the first of their two 1976 albums, A TRICK OF THE TALE, Genesis decided that their drummer, Phil Collins, was the ideal candidate to take over for Peter Gabriel as lead singer — something that must have...

While we continue to wait for scientists to crack the nut that is time travel, there’s still a way that we can be transported through the mists of time to the 1980s, and that’s through the power of music. This...

On this date in 1971, Jim Morrison died in Paris, France, leaving behind a remarkable musical legacy for someone who was only 27 years of age. To celebrate his life on the day of his death, we’ve got the official...

57 years ago today, The Drifters released their first single to feature Charlie Thomas on vocals, a Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman composition which was a big hit for the group and an even bigger hit for a completely different...

If you haven’t yet started watching season two of the Netflix series GLOW, then we’ll try to avoid offering up any spoilers with this post, but for those of you who’ve at least made your way through the first episode...