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Rock

Fifty Years of The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones — actually Jagger and Richards — played The Marquee Jazz Club in London on this day in 1962. The set list, according to Rolling...

Pop

Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick Medley

This is a bit of the third soundtrack of the 1960s — the one that wasn’t rock-and-roll and the one that wasn’t afraid of it. I purposely...

News and Commentary

On the Record

Joe Petro at Music Think Tank: Listeners spent over $100 million dollars on vinyl records in 2011. That is a 30% increase in both revenue from and unit sales...

News and Commentary

The Sounds of Science

The folks at CNET have a piece about the “sonification” of the Higgs Boson, the elemental particle that was discovered by the CERN Institute in...

Historical

The Great John Hammond

This is from This Day in Music.com entry for July 10, 1987: Producer and record company executive John Hammond died. He brought Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan...

Rock

Ringo Turns 72

  A couple of weeks ago Paul McCartney celebrated his 70th birthday. Proving once again that even being a member of Beatles doesn’t stop the aging...