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For today’s Deep Dive in honor of Black History Month, we’re diving a little deeper than usual and spotlighting a band that released three albums on Elektra between 1979-1980 and even scored a top-10 hit on Billboard ’s R&B Singles...

33 years ago this month, Prince – accompanied, of course, by his backing band, The Revolution – released the first single from the PARADE album, and what better day to reminisce about a song called “Kiss” than February 14? Written...

The length of time and fitful process required to release TRIO II – the second album by the lovely triple-tiered harmony machine of Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris – should not cause one to think it is of...

14 years ago today, during the 47 th annual Grammy Awards, Led Zeppelin were officially declared as the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Well, technically, anyway. In fact, the...

35 years ago today, Foreigner was in the midst of their two-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with the song that – at least as of this writing – remains the lone #1 hit of their...

Some names are so associated with a particular genre that you can’t hear one immediately thinking of the other. Such is the case when it comes to John Coltrane and jazz, which is why Rhino is celebrating his career for...

50 years ago this week, The Doors were sitting upon the top of the Cashbox 100 – that’s right, we’re talking Cashbox , not Billboard , so you can stop mentally preparing the nasty comment you were going to leave...

Today we celebrate the fact that yesterday was Roberta Flack’s birthday, and we also apologize for the fact that we don’t post new pieces over the weekend, but we figured that the occasion of Ms. Flack’s birth was worthy of...

Today we celebrate the birthday of singer-songwriter Tom Rush, and we’re doing so by taking a look at an album from his back catalog which – despite being the most commercially successful LP of his career – still isn’t known...