Posts by Alby

H/t Nathan Arizona Los Lobos just dropped a new album of cover songs, "Native Sons," all by bands from Los Angeles, and not just obvious choices like the Chicano band…

Robby Steinhardt, second vocalist and violinist for the band Kansas, died last week of pancreatitis, aged 71. He wasn't the group's leader, but his violin was the most distinctive element…

Texas blues-rockers ZZ Top are undergoing their first personnel change in 51 years today because bassist and second lead vocalist Dusty Hill died in his sleep Tuesday. The band became…

It's a good time to eat a peach -- it's the height of a better-than-average peach season. It's also a good time to play "Eat a Peach," the soundtrack of…

Aged-out frat boy Matt Gaetz thinks he's somehow going to survive his scandalous behavior with underage females, even in the face of stories like this one, in which the sister…

For Gerald Brady. Yeah, you know the hit version (No. 10 US, No. 2 UK) that Nile Rodgers produced for David Bowie, but it was first recorded six years earlier…

When people complained about Bob Dylan being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature because "lyrics aren't literature," they betrayed their ignorance about literature. Some of the earliest writings in the…

The last thing I expected this summer was brand-new yacht rock, yet here it is. Someone played this for me and dared me to guess who it was, and all…

An odd story about a Bruce Springsteen composition popped up recently -- an argument about the lyrics to his iconic song "Thunder Road." Since the release of his "Born to…