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“You cannot continue to record and simply hope that your audience will approve, or that average critics will approve, or that radio will approve. You progress only when you wonder if an abnormally scientific genius would approve – and this...

Back in July, we here at Rhino proudly announced that we were going to be making Pet Shop Boys fans very happy by resuming a past tradition with the duo’s back catalog: delivering expanded editions of their albums with a...

Talk Talk had an advantage over many of their ‘80s peers by releasing an eponymous single – if you remembered the name of one, then you remembered the name of the other – but while they found considerable success in...

19 years ago today, Metallica launched into a nine-song set at the home of the late Hugh Hefner, a.k.a. the architectural wonder otherwise known as The Playboy Mansion. Well, actually, it’s not the architecture of the mansion that’s a wonder...

40 years ago this week, David Bowie released his twelfth studio album, an LP which also served as the middle chapter of his so-called “Berlin Trilogy.” Recorded at Hansa Studio by the Wall in West Berlin (and, yes, that’s definitely...

One of the most enjoyable holiday traditions to emerge over the course of the past few years has been the Record Store Day Black Friday event, in which labels take one of the most excruciating shopping days of the year...

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?! Of course you are. And if you’re not, then it’s your own fault: we’ve been telling you about the return of Rhino’s Rocktober for two weeks now. You know, a lot of labels would just...

You may recall how, back on September 29, Rhino released 10X10, by Ronnie Montrose featuring Ricky Phillips and Eric Singer, which was the album that the late Mr. Montrose had been working to finish when he died. Belated though it...

He met his songwriting partner John Perry Barlow at boarding school. Barlow spun the whole secret origin story about the Weir/Barlow friendship in a 2016 interview with TipJar, one which should definitely be read in its entirety if you’re a...