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34 years ago today, The Doobie Brothers released One Step Closer, their ninth studio album and – as it turned out – the last studio album they’d release before disbanding for more than half a decade. All things being equal...

29 years ago today, The Waterboys released the album that their leader, Mike Scott, has called “the record on which I achieved all my youthful musical ambitions,” but we’d sum it up thusly: on the band’s first two albums, you...

Soul. R&B. Funk. With a little LA smooth and late 70s synths for good measure. This is the September Jukebox. This edition pays tribute to both the late greats: Bobby Womack, Jackie Shane, Terry Callier, Nina Simone and those who...

This week’s Mono Mondays release comes from the catalog of a top-notch vibraphonist, back when your average musician knew right off the top of his or her head exactly what a vibraphonist was. Kids, if you’re not in the know...

Word reached us last night of the death of a man whose work we’ve talked about quite a lot here on Rhino.com, not just this year – although lord knows that’s true, thanks to all of the releases tied to...

Peter Frampton was not the only unheralded rock star to break through with a live album in 1976. But unlike "Frampton Comes Alive," Bob Marley and the Wailers' live LP was a single disc and it had little initial impact...

A few weeks back, you LP lovers out there were given the thrill of being able to listen to The Specials’ sophomore effort, More Specials, on 180-gram vinyl, but just in case those of you who prefer CDs have been...

They say that there are no second acts in life, but Frank Sinatra had at least three. In a career that spanned six decades, Mr. Sinatra recorded substantial catalogs for the Columbia and Capitol labels, as well as his own...

2 of the "Greats" are getting vinyl upgrades this week. Read all about it here: Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace: This may surprise you as much as it surprised us – we first read it on Wikipedia, and it shocked us...