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Song of the Day 3/8: Ted Hawkins, “Cold and Bitter Tears”

By Alby March 8, 20231 Comment

A lot of people have never heard Ted Hawkins, the singer-songwriter who spent most of his career busking on the boardwalk in Venice Beach, where he earned, he said, about…

Song of the Day 3/7: Sweet, “Fox on the Run”

By Alby March 7, 20232 Comments

The Dominion lawsuit against Fox "News" has provided receipts showing the Murdoch media empire is nothing but a propaganda arm of the international fascist movement, which isn't news to anybody…

Song of the Day 3/6: Wayne Shorter with the Miles Davis Quintet, “Footprints”

By Alby March 6, 20232 Comments

Guest post by Nathan Arizona From Miles to the Multiverse. That’s the trajectory Wayne Shorter took as he established himself over a 67-year career as what the New Yorker called…

Song of the Day 3/3: The Ramones, “Punishment Fits the Crime”

By Alby March 3, 20235 Comments

I suppose there's a reason America's laughably labeled "news" channels covered some South Carolina ass clown's murder trial as if it were OJ 2.0 -- I didn't experience this first-hand,…

Song of the Day 3/2: Big Louisiana, Willy Rafus and Arthur Davis, “Let Your Hammer Ring”

By Alby March 2, 20231 Comment

A bunch of millionaires known as "U.S. senators" have been sitting around in their Washington, D.C., offices pretending that the richest country in the history of the world simply can't…

Song of the Day 3/1: Laura Jane Grace, “Lolo 13”

By Alby March 1, 2023

If drag shows freak Republicans out, I wonder how freaked they'd be by an actual transgender performer like Laura Jane Grace. Born Thomas James Gabel, Grace came out in 2012…

Song of the Day 2/28: Aerosmith, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)”

By Alby February 28, 20235 Comments

As anyone who follows the news knows, Republicans have a hard on for drag queens -- uh, maybe I should rephrase that. Or maybe I shouldn't. Southern states must be…

Song of the Day 2/27: Albert Hammond, “It Never Rains in Southern California”

By Alby February 27, 20232 Comments

The weather in the USA has been weird lately -- 50-degree temperature swings, February tornadoes and snow in Southern California. Maybe the lyrics of this song need an update --…

Song of the Day 2/26: Iris DeMent, “Goin’ Down to Sing in Texas”

By Alby February 26, 20231 Comment

Singer-songwriter Iris DeMent isn't usually described as a folk singer, I suppose because much of her work sounds like country music, but some of her compositions are as pointed as…

The Straight Dope on Masks

By Alby February 25, 20237 Comments

For some reason, a few MAGAts got tired of buffing their muskets and decided to weigh in on scientific matters that they don't understand. Don't be too hard on them…

Song of the Day 2/25: The Breeders, “Cannonball”

By Alby February 25, 20232 Comments

Andrew C. is right -- it's unlikely I'll ever get another chance to hang a song about a cannonball on an actual news peg, so here's his choice for the…

Song of the Day 2/24: Damien Rice, “Cannonball”

By Alby February 24, 20233 Comments

The wanderings of the Lewes Cannonball have come to a happy end. Whoever pried it loose from the Cannonball House apparently thought better of it and placed it on the…

News Journal’s Pro-Cop Bias Is Showing

By Alby February 23, 20233 Comments

Meredith Newman didn't just bury the lede in her story about Delaware's highest-paid employees, she left it out entirely. The story, based on data from 2021, focuses on the high…