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When you’re the guitarist for one of the biggest bands in the world, you’d think you’d quickly get used to having people tell you that you rock. Not Kirk Hammett of Metallica. He was completely blindsided when he learned on...

We're back with a fresh set of tunes that will have you whistling all the way through your work week! Tune in for ditties from Rhiannon Giddens, The Band, Alejandro Escovedo, Old 97's, Japandroids, and many more.

34 years ago today, Depeche Mode released their seventh single, a non-LP track which was also the band’s first single to feature Alan Wilder as an official member. Recorded in December 1982 at London’s Blackwing Studios, “Get the Balance Right!”...

Rhino has made it a point to reissue classic albums on 180-gram vinyl on a regular basis. This is the latest to get that treatment. You're welcome. CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR (2005): Madonna’s tenth album was also a return...

56 years ago today, Carla Thomas’s classic R&B single “Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)” first entered the Billboard Hot 100, which seems like a perfectly good excuse to pull together a Single Stories piece about it. Written by Thomas...

When Chicago released their second album, the appropriately-entitled CHICAGO II, they blew their fans’ minds with the musical amalgam that they’d constructed, one which incorporated everything from orchestral music to heavy rock. As such, many have hoped for decades that...

When it comes to powerhouse thrash metal bands of the 1980s and 1990s, precious few had as much influence on their peers as Sepultura. Founded by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, they came from Brazil, they took no prisoners, and...

Considered to be one of the greatest gigs to ever grace the Pyramid Stage, Blur’s 2009 set was their first at Glastonbury Festival since topping the bill in 1998. Described as “unbelievable” and “triumphant” by the world’s media, the band...

50 years ago today, Eddie Floyd released his debut full-length album, the title track of which remains one of the all-time great R&B singles of the 1960s. Recorded at Stax Studios during the back half of 1966, KNOCK ON WOOD...