On March 19, 1968, Joni Mitchell played two surprise sets at Café Le Hibou in Ottawa. Also present was Jimi Hendrix, who’d played two sold-out shows of his own at the Capitol Theater earlier that night. Those Jimi Hendrix Experience shows have been packaged into multiple live albums over the years, but they weren’t the only ...

On May 9, 1987, Sonic Youth were the surprise guests at a benefit show supporting Jimmy Johnson and Byron Coley’s experimental music magazine Forced Exposure. The concert went down at The Rat in the mag’s home base of Boston, and it featured some serious underground heavy hitters. Forced Exposure contributor Steve Albini was ...

In 2002, before beardy indie-folk became a cliché, Sam Beam broke out in a big way with The Creek Drank The Cradle, his debut album as Iron & Wine. It’s not like those hushed lo-fi home recordings were the first songs Beam ever recorded, though. Today he has announced an unearthed album recorded in the late ’90s, wh...

Geoff Nicholls' estate have uploaded a previously unreleased track which seems to feature Dio and co. jamming in the early Heaven And Hell days

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