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From a historical standpoint, you can’t go wrong with this week’s Mono Monday release…unless, of course, you think you know something that the Library of Congress doesn’t. To our way of thinking, though, if John Coltrane’s Giant Steps is good...

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY This was a number two hit for Hugo Montenegro back in 1968, it was a cover of the original theme from the flick done by Ennio Morricone. Yes, it's strange, but the sixties...

24 years ago today, Perry Ferrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, and Eric Avery released their second studio album, an effort which turned out to be not only the most successful album of their career but also the last album they’d...

The Return of Rock Royalty THE BRITISH INVASION Sharing the stage for the first time ever, the iconic singers of the legendary 1960’s rock revolution: Gerry & The Pacemakers Chad & Jeremy Billy J. Kramer Mike Pender’s Searchers Denny Laine...

The Bee Gees pulled off one of pop music’s more remarkable career transformations in the mid-1970s. Up to that point they were an excellent bunch of Beatle-influenced harmonizers…afterwards they put disco on the map and ruled the charts for a...

"Aqualung,""Thick As A Brick,""Cross Eyed Mary,""Locomotive Breath"... Who wants to hear the best of Jethro Tull (and some new tunes from Ian Anderson!) live this fall? Enter to win a pair of tickets to hear their hits in a city...

37 years ago today, the American record-buying public were first given the opportunity to purchase Foghat’s Live. We realize that may not seem like a big deal to those of you who weren’t alive to experience the glory of Foghat...

37 years ago today, the Sex Pistols embarked on a brief set of dates around the UK, but because of the amount of infamy they’d already accumulated during the course of their career, the band decided it’d be in their...

Strains of Africa, from the continent and beyond. We recently published a piece on Aquarium Drunkard entitled Africa Unbound: A Tale of Cross-Cultural Influence, a sort of unintentional sister piece to a piece we did in 2010 entitled Fela Kuti...