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New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes: 112, Peaches & Cream – To kick off this week’s column, we’ve got the first of a few new additions to our digital catalog from the Bad Boy Entertainment archives, and...

Here’s a piece of information that’ll make you go crazy: today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain. Now, when we say Purple Rain, in this particular instance we’re talking about the soundtrack...

Say, have you heard about this Jersey Boys movie? Yeah, yeah, we know, there’s been just the teensiest bit of publicity about it, but we hope you’ll forgive us if we offer a little bit more today…and, uh, then some...

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When discussing singer-songwriters who started their careers in full creative bloom and stayed the course for several albums, you can’t chat about the ‘70s without citing Jackson Browne, but while his self-titled debut in 1972 was outstanding and 1973’s For...

Introducing the bouillabaisse of sound that is Maison Dufrene – a vintage serving of southern soul, r&b, country, blues, gospel and beyond.The first of an ongoing collaboration with Louisiana record collector, dj and musicologist, Paul Dufrene. ABOUT AQUARIUM DRUNKARD Based...

If you’ve been following our weekly Digital Roundup feature, then you’re already fully aware that, as of a few months back, we’ve gotten into the occasional habit of starting off the week by dropping a new Mono release into our...

30 years ago today, possibly emboldened by having sold the Renoir and the TV set, Duran Duran stopped dancing on the valentine long enough to dance their way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time...

Yesterday, the music world lost one of its great songwriters, not just of the Brill Building era (although he certainly qualifies in that particular category) but of all time. Gerry Goffin was 75, but over the course of three-quarters of...