Posts by Alby

This out-of-left-field hit was one of the songs of the summer in 1977, mostly because of its slow-jam groove, not its silly lyrical conceit. I can't be sure, but this…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Indie pop-rock tends to get overshadowed these days, but the dudes abide. In this case in a band called Hippo Campus. They make brisk, melodic,…

No, the song doesn't have anything to do with the holiday, but it is one of Bruce Springsteen's most personal songs, the one that most directly addresses the tension with…

Fifty years ago today, Jim Morrison's common-law wife found him dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment, bringing to a close the singer's years-long campaign of self-destruction and pretty…

For the past 40 years, people have thought of Chicago as an easy-listening band that played lots of mushy ballads, because that's how they wasted the bulk of their existence…

Before Counting Crows became famous, the band circulated a demo tape that set off a bidding war among record companies. Most of the songs were rerecorded with T-Bone Burnett at…