Posts by Alby

While rock's Jurassic generation keeps grinding on -- look, another tour by 79-year-old Paul McCartney! -- its more recent Cretaceous Period relics are dying out. Mark Lanegan, frontman for Screaming…

I don't know all that much about the situation in the Ukraine, and if you're honest about it neither do you. I just think that the fewer innocent people who…

The second-biggest hit for the only band fit to play on Presidents Day, a No. 1 hit on the Modern Rock chart in 1995. They got the record's sound by…

Cat Stevens' first Top 40 single as a performer wasn't his biggest hit -- it only reached No. 11, but it's his most-covered by a wide margin. So far the…

It had been nearly nine months since Randy Rainbow's last musical parody video before he dropped this one on the unsuspecting internet last week. I was concerned that, like earlier…

If you wanted to commission a love song for a late-'80s rom-com, is Randy Newman the guy you'd turn to? As his girlfriend asks in the video, "What's the matter?…

I admit I never thought I'd actually find a song called "Gazpacho," but when Congressdope Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed her thoughts about the gazpacho police -- I understand they only…

Hot Chocolate was a British soul band best known for their 1975 international hit "You Sexy Thing," a disco standard that reached No. 3 in the US. But it was…

First off, no, this isn't the Kansas tune. It predates it by six years. Fifty years ago this month, then 23-year-old Todd Rundgren released what's widely regarded as his magnum…