Justin Timberlake was born on January 31st of 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is most well known as a member of the late ’90s/early ’00s boy band NSync and more recently as a successful solo performer. NSync released three studio albums: 1998′s self titled debut, 2000′s No Strings Attached, and 2001′s Celebrity. Each of the [...]

Super Furry Animals have announced that their 9th studio album (as yet untitled) will be released digitally on March 16th, on April 13th on CD worldwide, and on April 21st on CD in the US. This is the track listing as found on their website (SuperFurry.com) 1.’The very best of Neil Diamond’ 2. White socks/Flip [...]

Phil Collins was born on January 30th of 1951 in London, England. Collins is well known both for his time with the progressive rock band Genesis and for his very commercially successful solo career. He originally joined Genesis in the early 1970s as a drummer and backing vocalist but when the original lead singer for [...]

Tommy Ramone was born as Erdélyi Tamás in Budapest, Hungary on January 29th of 1952. He is best known as the drummer and co-producer for the Ramones from 1974 to 1978 (that time period includes their first three albums: Ramones, Leave Home, & Rocket to Russia.) He left the band as a drummer in 1978, [...]

Chris Carter was born on January 28th of 1953 in London, England. He was a founding member for the groundbreaking industrial rock group Throbbing Gristle in 1975. He played synthesizer. The other members of the band were Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, & Peter Christopherson. Their first album was 1977′s The Second Annual Report. That [...]

It’s that time of night. It’s time to play psychedelic radio on Last.FM – I won’t go into the whole thing about how I love Last.FM this time, at least beyond this sentence mentioning that I won’t mention it. So uh, yeah I’m rocking psychedelic radio, which is made up of all of the songs [...]

Nick Mason was born on January 27th of 1944. He is most well known as Pink Floyd’s drummer. He is actually the only member of the band who has been with Pink Floyd since they first formed in 1965 (with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Bob Klose, and Richard Wright.) Along with drumming and playing percussion [...]

Check out John Lennon doing “Yer Blues” (from The White Album) with the help of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, & Mitch Mitchell. Lennon called this super group “The Dirty Mac.” It features a ridiculous introductory conversation between Lennon and Mick Jagger. This performance was part of The Rolling Stones Rock N Roll Circus which is [...]

The folk trio The Rooftop Singers had a #1 hit with “Walk Right In” on the US pop charts. It went to #1 on January 26th of 1963 and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached #10 in the UK. “Walk Right In” had been originally written & recorded by blues man Gus Cannon [...]

The Carpenters had their 3rd (and last) #1 single on the US pop charts on January 25th of 1974 with their cover of “Please Mr. Postman.” This was the second time this song hit the top of the charts. It hit #1 in 1961 as the debut single by The Marvelettes. It was actually the [...]