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Today we celebrate the birthday of one of America’s most underrated songwriters, an unheralded solo artist, and an all-around great musician and producer: Van Dyke Parks. Back in 2018, we put together a playlist featuring 20 songs from within the Rhino catalog that Parks either played on, helped write, or produced in some capacity, and we also offered up a six-pack of additional Parks-connected tracks from other labels. This time around, we’ve bypassed doing a new six-pack, but that’s only because we’ve constructed an all-new playlist, one which contains 50 – count ‘em – 50 tracks that our man

Solo Marks First New Album In Over A Decade January 24, 2020 – Canada’s most celebrated songwriter, and international folk legend Gordon Lightfoot has announced his new album SOLO. The album sees Lightfoot returning to the studio to release his first album of new music since 2004’s Harmony. SOLO showcases Lightfoot at his most pure, alone in the studio with his guitar. The new album is heralded by the first single “Oh So Sweet,” which can be heard here. SOLO will be available everywhere music is sold on March 20th as a CD ($14.98) and LP (21.98) Fans can click here to pre-save the album on

2020 isn’t going to be just another year for Stone Temple Pilots: this Friday, the band will be releasing the first acoustic album of their career. PERDIDA is a continuation of the musical evolution that began with the arrival of their new lead singer, Jeff Gutt, in 2017, taking the band into heretofore-unexplored territory with deeply personal songs, introspective lyrics, and instruments you wouldn’t normally expect to hear on an STP album. You can check out the title track from the album via the Spotify link, and if you’ve missed out on the two previous tracks that the band has released to

You know how we’ve spent the last several weeks assuring you that 2020 wouldn’t be just another year for Stone Temple Pilots and telling you about how the band would be releasing the first acoustic album of their career? Well, the time has come at last, and the album in question is finally here. PERDIDA is a continuation of the musical evolution that began with the arrival of their new lead singer, Jeff Gutt, in 2017, taking the band into heretofore-unexplored territory with deeply personal songs, introspective lyrics, and instruments you wouldn’t normally expect to hear on an STP album. We

You know him for such iconic tunes as “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” but it’s been 14 years since famed Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot last released a studio album’s worth of new music. That situation is about to change: on March 20, Lightfoot will be releasing SOLO, his first new studio LP since 2004’s HARMONY. The origins of HARMONY are pretty fascinating in their own right: Lightfoot stumbled upon two CDs worth of songs that he’d recorded the better of two decades earlier, having written them just prior to suffering an almost

You know him for such iconic tunes as “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” but it’s been 14 years since famed Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot last released a studio album’s worth of new music. Actually, scratch that. As of this morning, it’s no longer accurate. Even as you read this sentence, you can now purchase a copy of SOLO, the first new studio LP from Gordon Lightfoot in 16 years. That’s right: not since 2004’s HARMONY has our man Gord released a new studio album. In other words, this is a pretty big deal. The origins of HARMONY

Today we learned of a casualty of COVID-19, and while it was one that truly gutted us, we know we’re not alone in mourning the loss of Adam Schlesinger, who died at age 52 from complications of the virus. Born in New York City on Halloween 1967, Adam Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey, went to Montclair High School, and then got a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. That’s where he met Chris Collingwood for the first time. No, the Schlesinger / Collingwood friendship didn’t immediately lead to the formation of Fountains of Wayne, but

A little over two weeks ago, Rhino released the first new studio LP from Gordon Lightfoot in 16 years. That’s right: not since 2004’s HARMONY has our man Gord released a new studio album. In other words, this was a pretty big deal. The origins of SOLO are pretty fascinating in their own right: Lightfoot stumbled upon two CDs worth of songs that he’d recorded the better of two decades earlier, having written them just prior to suffering an almost-fatal abdominal aortic aneurysm in 2002. Refamiliarizing himself with the material, he took nothing more than himself, his guitar, and the songs into

If you’re a fan of singer-songwriters, then you have our deepest sympathies, because – probably not unlike yourself – we here at Rhino HQ have been in mourning ever since the news broke late last night that the legendary John Prine died of complications from COVID-19. Sure, we knew he’d been doing poorly since testing positive for the virus. We also knew that he’d been put on a ventilator. But given how much he’d fought for life over the course of the past several years – the guy beat cancer, for heaven’s sake! – we still kept our fingers crossed that he was gonna pull through, so the fact

Today we celebrate the birthday of a gentleman named Patrick Carney, who – as you hopefully already know – is one of the two musicians who make up The Black Keys. (The other, of course, is Dan Auerbach.) To commemorate the occasion, we’ve put together a list of five things about Carney’s band that you may or may not know, so...let’s get to readin’! 1. Dan Auerbach and Carney first met when they were both still in single digits. Although they didn’t exactly become friends at the time, they were living in the same neighborhood in Akron, Ohio and therefore crossed paths when they were eight or