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Ahoy, ‘Trane spotters! Remember not long ago when we released TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION, a nine-track compilation containing material drawn from his Atlantic Records work between 1959 and 1961, and we told you that we’d be offering up more Coltrane...

Today we celebrate the birthday of late R&B legend Gerald Levert, and although he may have left us back in 2006, he delivered a lot of smooth soul music before departing. (Not that this should come as any surprise to...

25 years ago tomorrow, the world will celebrate the 25 th anniversary of the release of Ministry’s fifth album, an LP which proved to be not only the most commercially success album of the band’s career but also the only...

Make It a Double: Prince, 1999 By 1982, anyone with ears could tell that Prince was special—DIRTY MIND (1980) and CONTROVERSY (1981) moved the needle from lascivious to downright filthy, both in lyrical content and groove, and a single like...

Today we celebrate the birthday of a woman who was born Perfect and has remained pretty darned stellar even after setting aside her maiden name: Christine McVie. As you might expect, we can’t resist using this occasion to remind you...

Seven years ago today, Jewel filmed a video for Funny or Die that made her the talk of the internet for…oh, let’s go with Andy Warhol’s axiom and say it lasted for probably 15 minutes or so. Still, it was...

The longstanding joke about the ‘60s is that if you remember them, you weren’t there, but just because you don’t remember them doesn’t mean you can’t revisit them. This year marks the 50 th anniversary of the legendary Summer of...

During the course of their years as a couple, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett recorded several strong albums and made a lot of big-name friends, as you can see by checking the credits of any of those LPs, but how much...

The late, great heavy metal rocker Ronald James Padavona was was born on this day in 1942 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but you know him better by the pseudonym he adopted in order to rock harder (we presume): Ronnie James...