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13 years ago today, the hard rockers who were recently named 2014’s Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now by Kerrang! took their first real step toward world domination when they earned their very first #1 on Billboard’s Alternative...

1. "Come See About Me" The Supremes My favorite Supremes cut! A Holland-Dozier-Holland composition, it's all about the groove. I distinctly remember dancing to this at the following year's bar mitzvah parties. That's right, some tracks are so rhythmic they...

27 years ago today, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – collectively known as Pet Shop Boys – took a song that had previously been identified as belonging to Elvis Presley or Willie Nelson and somehow managed to make it their...

43 years ago today, T. Rex earned their first and only #1 album in the UK, but it was a long-lasting one, staying in the top spot through January 29, 1972, then taking the top spot back again on February...

New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes: J Mascis, Martin + Me: By the time J Mascis finally got around to releasing his first album under his own name in 1996, many critics – most of them old-school...

Trim your tree. Part three of our vintage holiday mix series. Find part one, here and two, here. Continuing in the vein of the past two weeks, Wassailing aims to re-frame seasonal music in a way that has nothing to...

43 years ago today, David Bowie released the album that would give him his first top-five placing on the UK album charts, kicking off a series of ch-ch-ch-changes in the public’s appreciation of his music that would, only two years...

28 years ago today, Debbie Gibson released her first single, a self-composed track which ultimately climbed all the way to the #4 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Not too bad for a 16-year-old, eh? “Only in My Dreams” was...

45 years ago, sax man Eddie Harris released an album with a title that referenced a right guaranteed by the First Amendment…or maybe it was referencing the cost of speech. Either way, it’s still not the strongest entry in Harris’s...