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Song of the Day 1/15: Dolly Parton, “Here You Come Again”

By Alby January 15, 20261 Comment

Fans have been worried about Dolly Parton's health since October, when her sister put out a public appeal for prayers, a couple of weeks after the country music diva missed…

Song of the Day 1/14: Jake Xerxes Fussell, “The Bells of Rhymney”

By Alby January 14, 2026

Guest post by Nathan Arizona The best-known version of “The Bells of Rhymney” came out of sunny southern California when the Byrds put it on their first album in 1965.…

Song of the Day 1/13: The Moody Blues, “Isn’t Life Strange”

By Alby January 13, 20265 Comments

Scanning one of those People We Lost in 2025 lists the other day, I realized I missed memorializing John Lodge, bassist for the Moody Blues, back when he died in…

Song of the Day 1/12: The Grateful Dead, “Playing in the Band”

By Alby January 12, 2026

Bob Weir, the co-founder of the Grateful Dead who died Saturday at 78, was the subject of countless Deadhead debates over the years. Was he an essential member of the…

Song of the Day 1/11: Bob Dylan, “Barbara Allen”

By Alby January 11, 20265 Comments

Guest post by Nathan Arizona “Barbara Allen” is the best known of all the old ballads, its different versions collected more than any other folk song by preservers of the…

Remember Lymond Moses

By Alby January 10, 20265 Comments

The Trump cabal rightfully is catching shit for maintaining that Renee Good was driving at ICE agent Jonathan Ross despite multiple videos showing that's not true. That unimaginative response has…

Song of the Day 1/9: Jesse Welles, “Good vs. ICE”

By Alby January 9, 2026

The execution of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross has shocked and horrified everyone but MAGAts and their enablers, but I'm still impressed by how fast modern protest singer…

Song of the Day 1/8: The Northern Pikes, “Girl With a Problem”

By Alby January 8, 2026

Trump's desecration of the Department of Justice faces more roadblocks than most targets of his crime spree, if only because many federal judges – even Trump judges – are trying…

Song of the Day 1/7: Belá Fleck, “Rhapsody in Blue(grass)”

By Alby January 7, 2026

Everybody who's anybody is cancelling gigs at the former Kennedy Center these days. The latest artist to join the honor roll: Bela Fleck, probably the world's most famous banjo player.…

In Which Chris Coons Tries to Reason With a Foxette

By Alby January 7, 2026

Chris Coons went on Fox News yesterday, as is his wont, but for a change broke decorum when confronted with his interrogator's mushroom-sucking sycophancy. He even kept talking when she…

Song of the Day 1/6: Björk, “Human Behavior”

By Alby January 6, 2026

The demented little asshole running the country, Stephen Miller, is a quivering wimp – you can tell by the way he takes every opportunity to act butch. His ego swelled…

Song of the Day 1/5: Billy Squier, “The Stroke”

By Alby January 5, 20261 Comment

The signs are obvious – the drooping right side of his face, his slack right-handed salute, his inability to flip a coin at the Army-Navy game – but the strongest…

Song of the Day 1/4: Billy Joel, “Big Shot”

By Alby January 4, 2026

I could dedicate this song to Trump, but the real reason for setting aside my aversion to Billy Joel is that he sang in public Friday for the first time…