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47 years ago today, one of the last songs recorded by Otis Redding before his death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967 became his first – and, sadly, his only – single to hit the top of Billboard’s...

This one goes out to all the Steely Dan freaks, nerds and weirdos out there -- you know who you are -- and to the haters as well (you, too, know who you are). One of the more divisive groups...

38 years ago today, Iggy Pop kicked off the North American leg of his so-called Idiot World Tour, a jaunt which featured a band that included three future members of Tin Machine: Tony Sales on bass, Hunt Sales on drums...

30 years ago today, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure won the Ivor Novello Award for Best-Selling A-Side for the charitable endeavor known as Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” One of the most memorable accumulations of musical talent for...

One track can build a reputation and cement a career. Chris Whitley's "Living With The Law" was released in 1991, almost a decade before the Napster era, when if radio didn't play it most people didn't know it. There was...

New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes: We’ve only got two new additions to the Rhino Digital Catalog this week, but given that one of them comes from one of the most rockin’ American bands of the ‘70s...

37 years ago today, Kate Bush began the second week of her reign on the UK Singles chart with “Wuthering Heights,” which lasted until April 1, 1978. It would’ve been a pretty decent showing for any artist, but when you...

'The Final Reunion Tour' was the first time Cliff Richard & The Shadows had played together for over 20 years - split into 3 legs starting in the UK in September 2009, moving on to Europe, Australia and finally South...

Did you know that this playlist was waiting for the astronauts up on the moon, in 1969? Fact!* *not a fact ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front...