On This Day
‘Sinatra At The Sands’: Remembering Frank’s Time-Stopping Performance
Captured live on ‘Sinatra At The Sands,’ The Chairman delivered a performance that made everyone in the room think they’d hit the jackpot.
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Features1 week ago‘Assume Form’: James Blake Takes Shape On Fourth Album
Beckoning us back from isolation, ‘Assume Form’ finds James Blake reasserting his dominance and surpassing his biggest rival: himself.
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Features1 week agoDouble Cream: Eric, Ginger And Jack At The Crossroads In A White Room
The group may have split, but their version of Robert Johnson’s ‘Crossroads’ became a US single just as they were entering the UK charts with ‘White Room.’
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Best Martin Luther King Songs: 10 Moving Tributes
From sorrowful mourning to polemical rage, the best Martin Luther King songs deal with the death of the civil-rights icon in moving, revelatory ways.
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Motown And Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech
How the legendary soul imprint worked to make some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most celebrated and inspiring speeches available on record.
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‘Do You Want More?!!!??!’: How The Roots Rebelled Against Hip-Hop
The Roots’ ‘Do You Want More?!!!??!’ brought an ambitious sense of experimentation to hip-hop, revealing what a live band could do with the genre.
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‘The Soul Cages’: How Personal Tragedy Led Sting To An Artistic Triumph
Hailed as ‘a musical diary of the heart,’ ‘The Soul Cages’ found Sting reckoning with the death of his father, channeling his grief into a creative peak.
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‘Happy Birthday’: Stevie Wonder Helps Create Martin Luther King Day
The song, and Stevie's tireless campaigning, led directly to the enshrinement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, observed since January 1986.
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The Classic ‘Liege & Lief’: Sandy Denny’s Fairport Farewell
The singer's final album in her first spell with Fairport Convention became a folk music cornerstone.
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Main St. And Far Beyond: The Lyrical Guitar Of Mick Taylor
Celebrating a man who was part of a golden period for the Rolling Stones, and far more besides.
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Pianist Ahmad Jamal Recalls ‘At The Pershing’
‘At The Pershing: But Not For Me’ became one of the biggest records in the history of Chess Records. Ahmad Jamal recalls how it happened.
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Revisiting Air’s Retro-Futurist ‘Moon Safari’
Leave it to the French to turn retro-leaning lounge music into space-age scores.
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’Frampton Comes Alive’: Peter Frampton’s Live Epiphany
'Frampton Comes Alive' became the multi-platinum sensation of 1976 and produced three major hits in 'Show Me The Way,' 'Baby I Love Your Way,' and 'Do You Feel Like We Do.'
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Goes Extinct: Meet The New T. Rex
On January 16, 1971, it was farewell Tyrannosaurus Rex, long live T. Rex the band and T. Rex the LP.
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‘At Last’: A Classic Ballad By The Young Etta James
The Mack Gordon and Harry Warren song was already nearly 20 years old when Etta cut it for her debut album.
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‘Chiquitita’: The ABBA Song That Introduced The ‘Voulez-Vous’ Album
Completed at the end of 1978 at ABBA's Polar Music Studios, ‘Chiquitita’ soon emerged as the first single from their ‘Voulez-Vous’ album.
