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If you regularly darken the doorstep of Rhino.com, then you know that we’ve been in the midst of a 50th anniversary celebration for Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” for awhile now. That celebration continues today as...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Enya, who – when she was born in County Donegal, Ireland – was graced with the full name of Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin. As such, it’s perhaps not a surprise that she ended up...

Today’s Rhino birthday boy is probably best known these days for his work with either Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, or – to a slightly lesser extent – Them Crooked Vultures, but there was once a...

34 years ago today, Prince released his first single with the Revolution as his backing band and provided a generation with an instant retort to any traumatizing moment in their lives: “So this is what it sounds like when doves...

On this edition of THE RHINO PODCAST, host Dennis is in the booth with the one and only Micky Dolenz and Monkees reissue producer Andrew Sandoval to talk playing concerts in supermarket parking lots, Don Kirshner, JC Penney, long hair...

20 years ago today, the Kronos Quartet released a tribute to a noted Russian composer which can best be described as “startling.” That’s not a critique of the Kronos Quartet, mind you, but a descriptor of the string quartets they’re...

52 years ago this month, Trini Lopez released his 12th album on Reprise Records, which is an impressive accomplishment by itself, but it’s made even more so by the fact that Lopez’s stint on the label only started in 1963...

15 years ago today, a man described as an “Elektra recording artist slash-a political activist-a” made his debut as a character on The Simpsons. In the episode entitled “Brake My Wife, Please,” which aired during the show’s fourteenth season, Jackson...

25 years ago this week, Dire Straits released the second live album of their existence, giving their newer fans an opportunity to hear in-concert versions of some of their hugest hits from the then-recent past. Recorded in Nîmes, France and...