Prince hit the top of the US singles charts with “Let’s Go Crazy” on September 29, 1984. It stayed at #1 for two weeks.
It was the second of 5 #1 US singles by Prince (the other four are “When Doves Cry,” “Kiss,” “Batdance,” & “Cream.”)
“Let’s Go Crazy” was the the first track on the the […]

According to many fans, Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic, sounds better on Guitar Hero 3 than it does on the official CD version.
Why? Because of the “loudness war.” Basically the music has been “mastered” in a way in which the only goal is to make the music as loud as possible without any concern […]

Goats Head Soup became The Rolling Stones’ 8th UK #1 album on September 22, 1973.
The album also reached #1 in the US (on October 13th.)
It’s most well known song is the #1 US single (#5 in the UK) “Angie.”
While, “Angie” was a big hit and the album did reach #1 in both the […]

NIN’s fourth major label studio album,The Fragile, was released 9 years ago today on September 21, 1999.
The album had a huge amount of anticipation due to it coming out more than five years after NIN’s prior release, The Downward Spiral. The Fragile, a double album, became NIN’s first #1 album on the billboard charts […]

Oasis’ 7th studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, is due out October 6th worldwide (and October 7th in the US) but it has just leaked on the internet just more than two weeks ahead of that official release. These days that’s actually a pretty late leak.
My initial reaction to this album is very positive. […]

“Stuck with You” was the first single from Huey Lewis and the News’ 1986 album Fore! and it reached #1 on the US singles charts 22 years ago today on September 20, 1986. It stayed at #1 for three weeks before being knocked off the top spot by Janet Jackson’s “When I Think of You.”
September […]

Over 750,000 fans attended Simon & Garfunkel’s free reunion concert in Central Park in NYC on September 19, 1981. The show was recorded for an album and a video release. Most of the songs were Simon & Garfunkel classics but they also performed quite a few of Paul Simon’s solo hits.
The album version (which […]

Jimi Hendrix died from a drug overdose on September 18, 1970. He was in London when he died and he was only 27 years old.
Hendrix is considered by most critics to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Along with being an incredible guitarist, Hendrix was also a singer & a songwriter. […]

Country music legend singer-songwriter Hank Williams was born on September 17th of 1923 in Alabama.
Williams first hit was “Move It On Over” which was written, recorded, & released in 1947. It reached #4 on the country singles charts.
“Move It On Over” is still a well known song today, over 60 years later. Among Williams’ other […]

B.B. King was born 83 years ago today as Riley B. King in Mississippi.
King is one of the most critically acclaimed guitarists of all time, a good example of that acclaim is when he was ranked as the 3rd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
King has been extremely influential on many […]