Posts by Alby

It's been 18 months since Billy Joel cancelled his tour for health reasons, and his hydrocephalus still makes it unclear whether he'll ever be able to perform again. “What the…

Pay attention, class, this will be on the test: A Zacharia is 5/11ths of a Scaramucci. Perhaps the White House will do better in their next press secretary search if…

As El Somnambulo noted last Sunday, this year's WXPN countdown is gathering listeners' votes for what's billed as the 885 Greatest Songs from Movies & TV. I think they're mixing…

The fourth annual Hip Hop Cultural Summit at the Delaware Art Museum on Saturday has a theme of "Art As Activism," so it invited the man who did as much…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Every season has its songs, and the Great American Songbook is filled with tunes about the season of too much pumpkin spice and the scent…

Music news these days is full of stories about octogenarians trying, and often failing, to perform for paying audiences. Barry Manilow, Lionel Richie and Rod Stewart, – all have had…

Was Trump trying to help himself or his buddy Vladimir when he agreed to buy boatloads of diesel fuel from Russia? Hey, why not both? Forget about the corruption, the…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona One of the most highly regarded guitar players of the past four decades has just sold about 80 of them for nearly $5 million. But…

Though Republican senators in even deep-red states face close re-election races, Democrats in some blue states are having trouble getting traction. In Maine, a purplish state that usually votes for…

If it doesn't seem like Elvis Costello's debut album, "My Aim Is True," is 50 years old, that's because it's not. It hit the stores in 1977, when British punk…

The devil had a busy day yesterday, reaping three souls disgraced by sex scandals in their foul lives. Dennis Hastert, 84, the former Speaker of the House who was convicted…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona This seems like a good time for songs that make fun of fascism, since we have so much of it going on at the White…