September 2024

The story of Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is one full of contradictions. Indeed, its very inception attested to the fervent dualities that tormented its...

Peerless vocal stylist Nina Simone had to wait three years from her debut album release, with Little Girl Blue in 1958, to her first US...

The first chart bite of the Top 40 cherry for Neil Diamond arrived in America on September 10, 1966. In the days when he’d been...

Famously, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to launch the biggest African-American-owned business of its era. Considering that his background included boxing, running a record shop that...

The first release on frontman Andy Latimer’s own Camel Productions imprint, Camel’s 11th studio album, September 1991’s Dust And Dreams, wasn’t just a strong comeback...

It’s inevitable that B.B. King’s Live In Cook County Jail will be compared to 1965’s Live At The Regal, recorded by the same blues giant...