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12/31/2024

2025 is nearly here… Start your year in style by playing Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” at 11:56:20pm tonight, and the drum fill will welcome you into the new year 🎆

Listen: https://lnk.to/PhilCollins-ITATFC

12/27/2024

Happy 80th birthday to music legend Mick Jones, born December 27, 1944, in Portsmouth, England. He's seen here rocking with Foreigner on stage at the Reading Festival, United Kingdom, August 27, 1978. (Photo by Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

12/25/2024

Add some soul to your holidays with Otis Redding’s MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY! Stream now and feel the festive groove. ✨ : https://open.spotify.com/track/4STCTQ1h0VuWfvDyhGOxkv?si=e8df25746ca8498d

12/23/2024

Experience the queen's magic this holiday season with Aretha Franklin 's SILENT NIGHT. Stream now and feel the soul of Christmas🎶🎄 https://open.spotify.com/track/1LtTdk2gGKbuZoet4YmypA?si=0692615eaec0447d

12/20/2024

Let Joni Mitchell’s RIVER bring a touch of bittersweet beauty to your holiday season. Stream it now and feel the magic. ✨

LISTEN: https://open.spotify.com/track/0DAmSYQW9kq9gQNDI002KP?si=5a71fabfe59d40c7

12/19/2024

THIS IS 40: Van Halen singer David Lee Roth kick-started his solo career in earnest with the December 19, 1984 release of his first solo single, CALIFORNIA GIRLS. A cover of the Beach Boys classic, Roth’s zany version was a hit, sauntering up the Hot 100 to peak at #3 for the week of March 2, 1985.

FUN FACT: both real-life Beach Boy Carl Wilson and Christopher Cross performed background vocals on the track https://www.rhino.com/article/december-1984-david-lee-roth-releases-california-girls

12/19/2024

BUT I WON’T CRY FOR YESTERDAY: For a band so inextricably tied to the 1980s, New Wave icons Duran Duran scored one of its biggest and most memorable hits amidst the chaotic rise of grunge and gangster rap in 1992 with ORDINARY WORLD.

Released December 1992 in America, the tune debuted at #67 on the Hot 100 for the week of January 9, 1993 (the single was released January 18, 1993 in the UK).

ORDINARY WORLD rocketed up the Hot 100 chart, eventually peaking at #3 for the week of February 20, 1993.

It took a pair of monster hits to block “ORDINARY WORLD from the top spot: Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” at #1, and Peabo Bryson with “A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme)” at #2

LINK: https://www.rhino.com/article/december-1992-duran-duran-launch-comeback-for-the-ages-with-ordinary-world

12/19/2024

RIP to the Minneapolis music legend Bob “Slim” Dunlap, dead at the age of 73.

He’s seen here rocking with The Replacements at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St.Paul, Minnesota in 1989. (Photo by Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

12/18/2024

YOU GOT TO ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES TO GET TO WHAT’S REAL: it was December 1983 when Van Halen released the lead single from their blockbuster 1984 album: JUMP.

The relatively radical track expanded the band’s hard-rocking style with a catchy synthesizer hook and new pop sensibilities. The song not only went on to be Van Halen’s lone #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, it still stands among the most popular “Jock Jams” heard blasting at American sporting events.

LISTEN/MORE: https://www.rhino.com/article/december-1983-van-halen-release-jump

12/18/2024

Happy birthday to the guitar legend Elliot Easton, born December 18, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. He's seen here rocking with The Cars at The Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, October 16, 1980 (Photo By Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

12/18/2024

Light up the season with the soulful magic of Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas! Stream the magic ✨

LISTEN: https://open.spotify.com/track/7MSYSOobsombc1mbDWFxtD?si=76d23592b2a74c5d

12/17/2024

Happy 75th birthday to the legend Paul Rodgers Official, born December 17, 1949, in Middlesbrough, England. He’s seen here rocking with Bad Company on stage at Earl’s Court in London, England, July 1977. (Photo by Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

12/17/2024

December 17, 1971, David Bowie released fourth studio album HUNKY DORY.

Although now widely acknowledged as one of the best albums in Bowie’s catalog, HUNKY DORY didn’t make a dent on the U.K. album charts upon its 1971 release. It wasn’t until August 1973 that it finally peaked in the U.K. top 5 in the wake of a reissue of “Life on Mars?” following the 1972 release of Bowie’s breakthrough album THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS.

Lead single “Changes” was never a top 40 hit in the U.K., although it did peak at 41 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. It has long since stood alongside second single “Life on Mars?” as one of the several beloved Bowie classics featured on HUNKY DORY, which also include “Kooks,” “Queen Bitch,” “Oh! You Pretty Things,” “Quicksand,” and “The Bewlay Brothers.”

LISTEN (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/album/6fQElzBNTiEMGdIeY0hy5l?si=5Lc2Ldc2SlOszlKuTgOW-Q

(Apple Music): https://music.apple.com/us/album/hunky-dory-2015-remaster/1039798000

12/16/2024

‘CAUSE CHRISTMAS AIN’T THE TIME FOR BREAKING EACH OTHER’S HEART: It was November 1987 when Ramones rocked the holidays with the release of MERRY CHRISTMAS (I DON’T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT).

Originally released as a b-side to the single I WANNA LIVE, the punk rock Christmas classic made its LP debut as the last track on Ramones’ 1989 full-length, BRAIN DRAIN.

LISTEN/WATCH/MORE: https://www.rhino.com/article/single-stories-ramones-merry-christmas-i-dont-want-to-fight-tonight

12/16/2024

It’s almost Christmas! Snowman has left a note for you ☃️ Find it in the mailbox at www.siachristmas.com! While you’re there, watch Sia’s videos with the Misfits or play your favorite Everyday is Christmas song on repeat 🎶🎁

It’s almost Christmas! Snowman has left a note for you ☃️ Find it in the mailbox at www.siachristmas.com! While you’re there, watch Sia’s videos with the Misfits or play your favorite Everyday is Christmas song on repeat 🎶🎁 - Team Sia

12/16/2024

The holidays are fast approaching! There’s no better time to grab Harry Potter: The Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. This 16-LP set features all eight iconic film scores on house-colored vinyl.

Available now and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, exclusively on Rhino.com. Link in Stories

PURCHASE LINK: https://store.rhino.com/en/rhino-store/artists/harry-potter-soundtracks/?pdshow=true

12/16/2024

Happy 75th birthday to the guitar legend Billy F Gibbons, born December 16, 1949, in Houston, Texas. He’s seen here rocking with ZZ Top at the Metro Center on the ELIMINATOR tour in Rockford, Illinois, February 8, 1984. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

12/12/2024

THIS IS 45: December 12, 1979, The Cars released the third and final single from the CANDY-O album: DOUBLE LIFE.

FUN FACT: DOUBLE LIFE was the 21st music video shown on MTV after the cable channel launched in August 1981 https://www.rhino.com/article/december-1979-the-cars-release-double-life