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38 years ago today, the cinematic adventures of Jake and Elwood Blues officially entered theaters, giving comedy fans a lot of reasons to laugh while providing music fans with at least as many classic tunes. Directed by John Landis (...

31 years ago today, The Grateful Dead released one of the most successful singles of their career, but despite what you may have read elsewhere, it wasn’t on the same day that an ice cream company debuted a flavor named...

It’s still June, so it’s still African American Music Appreciation Month, although we’d argue that every month qualifies as African American Music Appreciation Month ‘round the Rhino offices. But let’s not quibble about that, let’s just get to the appreciating...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest super-groups – Crosby, Stills and Nash, so there’s more than a small amount of appropriateness to the fact that we’re about to honor one...

25 years ago this month, the lead singer of legendary Minneapolis band The Replacements released his first official solo album. Co-produced with Matt Wallace, 14 SONGS wasn’t the first thing Paul Westerberg released under his own name. In fact, his...

Last year, Rhino began the process of celebrating the career of Brazilian thrash/death metal legends Sepultura by reissuing their classic albums CHAOS A.D. and ROOTS, and it’s finally time to get back to the celebration: as of today, fans of...

50 years ago today, Aretha Franklin released the album that opened with a song that she’d memorably perform in a feature film more than a decade later, stealing every single moment that she spent on celluloid. Talking a bit about...

For much of the world at large, the career of The Flaming Lips might as well have started in 1995, i.e. when they took to the stage of The Peach Pit After Dark for their performance of “She Don’t Use...

It was no surprise when Michael McDonald’s 1982 solo debut IF THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES landed in the Top Ten, yielded a Top Ten single (“I Keep Forgettin’”), and effortlessly went gold. His last records with the Doobie Brothers (MINUTE...