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DL Open Thread Sunday, July 4, 2021

By Alby July 4, 20212 Comments

Today is worthy of celebration -- it's been a full week since Chris Coons last sold out his constituents. It's pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the Jan. 6…

Song of the Day 7/3: The Doors, “Break On Through (to the Other Side)”

By Alby July 3, 20217 Comments

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…

Song of the Day 7/2: Chicago Transit Authority, “Poem 58”

By Alby July 2, 20211 Comment

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…

Song of the Day 7/1: Counting Crows, “Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)”

By Alby July 1, 20213 Comments

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…

DL Open Thread Thursday, July 1, 2021

By Alby July 1, 20215 Comments

The Biden presidency has been a crisis for the media -- without a daily Fresh New Hell, ratings and readership are in the tank. Everybody's web traffic is down, but…

Top Lobbyist for ExxonMobil Says Coons Is in Their Pocket

By Alby July 1, 20215 Comments

Channel 4 in the UK carried an investigative report from the British branch of Greenpeace based on a sting interview with Keith McCoy, a top lobbyist for ExxonMobil. McCoy spoke…

Song of the Day 6/30: Todd Snider, “Can’t Complain”

By Alby June 30, 2021

Like his onetime mentor John Prine, Todd Snider's songs, built from simple chords and clever lyrics, fall into a category between folk and country that the label "Americana" doesn't quite…

Song of the Day 6/29: OMC, “How Bizarre”

By Alby June 29, 2021

This was the song of the summer 24 years ago, when it was inescapable on radio and MTV. Despite never being released as a single, it topped Billboard's airplay chart…

Song of the Day 6/27: Mumford and Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”

By Alby June 27, 20213 Comments

Mumford and Sons, the British band that soared to popularity a decade ago by dressing up like farmers and playing Americana, hit the news this week when their banjo player…

DL Open Thread Sunday, June 27, 2021

By Alby June 27, 20217 Comments

It's been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness,…

Song of the Day 6/24: Tom Cochrane, “Life Is a Highway”

By Alby June 24, 2021

In honor of the Senate's infrastructure deal, which apparently will be confined to not much more than highways. This one pops up all the time on classic rock radio, and…

DL Open Thread Thursday, June 24, 2021: The Sellout

By Alby June 24, 20216 Comments

Enough Democrats in the Senate have sold out their party to come up with a skinny infrastructure bill that won't raise any taxes to fund $600 billion worth of repairs,…

Song of the Day 6/23: Ohio Players, “Funky Worm”

By Alby June 23, 2021

Have you seen any stories about this invasive species of Asian "jumping" earthworms that's tearing up forest land in the Midwest? Check the link and prepared to be creeped out.…