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Get it on: Amazon || iTunes 25 years ago this month, Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth released their debut album, an LP which has since gone on to be seen (and heard) as one of the best hip-hop albums ever...

48 years ago today, the Bath Festival of Blues took place in – wait for it – Bath, England, and the lineup was one that would make any music fan’s mouth water even in 2017. The brainchild of concert promoter...

50 years ago this month, Herbie Mann released the album that found him using his skills as a jazz flautist to further listeners’ education of music from the Middle East. Mann had a long history of taking his flute and...

Given the success of her bio-pic, What’s Love Got to Do with It, we’d understand if you thought that you knew pretty much all you needed to know about Tina Turner. You don’t, though. There’s always some additional tidbit of...

35 years ago this month, Genesis released their third live album, little realizing that kids three-and-a-half decades later would have little or no frame of reference to audio formats involving sides. When THREE SIDES LIVE was originally released in North...

Whenever a band releases a new album, it generally inspires fans to take a step back and give a good listen to all of the other albums in the band’s back catalog. As such, since Depeche Mode released their latest...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to frequent visitors to Rhino.com that this year marks the 60th anniversary of Stax Records – we’ve mentioned it before, and we’ve also made a point of hyping how we’ve teamed with the fine...

25 years ago today, Black Sabbath released their 16th studio album, an effort made particularly notable by being the first LP by the band to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals in more than a decade. “After Ronnie departed back...

Here’s one thing you probably know about the MC5 even if you don’t know anything else about the MC5: they’re the band who gave us the phrase, “Kick out the jams, mother fuckers!” That alone would have secured their permanent...