Posts by Alby

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…

As Jason noted, raging wildfires are turning the West into a hellscape, but it is giving us colorful sunrises and sunsets. The rest of the day needs some work --…

I hadn't heard this one in ages until Meshell Ndegeocello's cover, which I'd never heard at all, popped up WXPN the other day. The funk comes from musicians who had…

Carolina beach music was invented for this time of year but, despite the title, "Rockaway Beach" is not beach music. At least, it wasn't before General Johnson enlisted Joey Ramone…

In the '90s the Old 97s were one of the top acts in what was then known as alt-country (now Americana). Saleswise their career peaked in 2001 with their third…