Album art for the 2004 remastered pressing of ‘Rock Around the Clock’ by Bill Haley & His Comets; Photo: Geffen Per our human necessity to be definitive with the way the past has unfolded, this day […]
Taylor Swift drinks a beer at a New York Knicks game; Photo: Clever News/YouTube When Taylor Swift dropped her sixth record, Reputation, back in the fall of 2017, a few people were quick to note all […]
The cover of Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Foxy Lady’ ’45 b/w ‘Manic Depression’; Photo: Polydor Further immortalized with a Wayne’s World nerdcore pelvic thrust 30 years later, Hendrix‘s purported only happy song he’s ever recorded, “Foxy Lady,” was cut […]
Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield (left) and Phil Spector (right) at Gold Star Studios in 1965; Photo: Getty 5,000 more pairs of boots were sent to Vietnam while MLK was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for […]
Huddie William ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter; Photo: Michael Ochs Archive via The Telegraph One of blues’ finest chain-links to the African griots that birthed rhythm into traditional gospel and field songs, Huddie William “Lead Belly” Ledbetter passed […]
Bruce Springsteen walks the ‘Streets of Philadelphia; Photo: Vevo The very first of now eight global public campaigns created by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness of enemies against humanity we tend to forget, World […]
The cover of Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’; Photo: Warner Bros. Van Morrison‘s true solo album, released on this day in 1968, as 1967’s “Brown Eyed Girl“-opening pop rocket Blowin’ Your Mind was released without his […]
Sammy Hagar rides a cop for his lack of speed law coolness in the official video for ‘I Can’t Drive’; Photo: Vevo/YouTube In 1974 Big Brother decided to institute a National Maximum Speed Law across […]
Queen‘s fourth record, A Night at the Opera, was a go-for-broke rock moment, the most expensive album ever recorded at the time, a theatrical sojourn in the name of rock and unconventional pop. Silver-throated Freddie […]
The most infamous drum machine named ‘Echo’ and its right hand dudes the Bunnymen made their debut in their Liverpool stomping grounds on this day in 1978 at a dive called Eric’s Club. Pre-Pete […]
