Posts by Alby

Not long ago I heard something I didn't think was possible -- a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates I didn't know. And I don't mean some 21st-century recording…

We all know Twitter has been experiencing lots of problems since boy genius Elon Musk bought it, but this one is more funny than ominous -- though not to Dave…

Unless you were a rap fan back in the golden days of the genre, before copyright laws reined in free-for-all sampling and the creativity it inspired, you probably don't know…

The Troggs didn't quite fit into the second wave of the British Invasion. Their version of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966,…

YouTube has brought some amazing musicians to broader public attention, but I haven't seen anyone finger-pick a guitar the way this 20-year-old Japanese kid does. Kent Nishimura first came to…

Burt Bacharach, the preeminent American tunesmith of the mid-20th century, died Wednesday at age 94. Though he's best remembered as an easy-listening composer for his the songs he wrote with…

MAGAt Nation (motto: Nostra braccas semper nodantur, roughly "our knickers are in a perpetual twist") is raising holy hell about Sam Smith's performance at the Grammy Awards. Seems the British…