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24 years ago today, The Sisters of Mercy started a five-week run at the top of the Billboard Modern Rock chart with “More,” confirming that the three years that had passed since their previous album, 1987’s Floodland, hadn’t done anything...

"Dirty City" Steve Winwood Steve can shred quite nicely thank you, as anyone who's seen him tear apart "Dear Mr. Fantasy" recently is aware. But despite killing it live, despite putting out one of my favorite albums of the twenty...

46 years ago today, The Scaffold – a British band featuring Mike McGear, otherwise known as Paul McCartney’s brother – earned a #1 UK single (and a #1 Irish single and a #1 Australian single) with a song that had...

21 years ago today, INXS released the second single from their 1993 album, Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, a duet which found the Australian-born band teaming with an unlikely vocal partner yet pulling off the pairing relatively well. The idea of...

New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes: Thompson Twins, “Bombers in the Sky,” “Come Inside,” “Come Inside/The Saint,” “Groove On,” “Play with Me (Jane),” “Play with Me (Jane)/The Saint,” “Sugar Daddy,” and “The Saint”: You may recall how...

What were you doing in 1970? Dr. Rhino was still a twinkle in his father’s eye, but elsewhere, people were recording some great tunes. Here’s a few from the year that also gave us the first episode of All My...

33 years ago today, David Byrne continued the process of making a name for himself beyond being just a Talking Head, releasing the score he’d been commissioned to write by Twyla Tharp for her latest dance project. 1981 was already...

Wow, we’re getting the strangest sense of déjà vu all of a sudden… Yes, that’s right: yesterday our Mono Mondays release was Otis Redding’s The Dock of the Day, and today we’re issuing the very same album on 180-gram vinyl...

46 years ago today, Graham Nash left a sweet gig with one of the great British pop groups of the ‘60s, partly due to creative frustration but mostly because he’d experienced a harmonic epiphany which convinced him that his future...