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The guy who wrote “Talkin’ Baseball” actually has a pretty deep history in popular music. Learn more and dig into our Opening Day playlist.
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What happens when a leading Krautrock producer gets his favorite musicians together, doses them with acid, and rolls tape? The Cosmic Jokers.
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Eddie Money was almost Janis Joplin’s immediate replacement in Big Brother and the Holding Company. Hard to picture? Seems the band felt the same way. The marriage lasted roughly ten minutes. Get the story here.
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A Grateful Dead performance is always a cornucopia of covers and originals–songs selected from history and songs composed through experience–served seamlessly alongside one another. Sometimes, you can’t tell which is which. See which of your favorite Dead tunes are actually covers.
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The best Irish tunes for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration, plus the origin story for “Shipping Up to Boston”.
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Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” isn’t just the ultimate one-hit wonder. It was also inspired by another one-hit wonder.
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MTV era stars, classic rock veterans, Dirty Dancing and the original Rickroll. Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown for the week of February 27, 1988.
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Led Zeppelin may be one of the greatest bands of all time, but they’re also the biggest thieves in rock history. We lay out just a bit of the very damning evidence against them.
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Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown for the week ending on January 26th of 1974 is a stew of funk, classic rock, silky soul, and patriotic pablum.