Posts by Alby

I realize the snow is going to be followed by freezing rain, but there aren't any songs about freezing rain. There are many about snow, but they get lumped in…

Anyone worth his salt stocked up on it early, because from what I hear there's not much to be found. We laugh at Southerners who freak out about 2 inches…

TACO Trump outdid himself in Davos, making his usual ugly noises about taking over Greenland and threatening Europe with punitive tariffs for not agreeing to it – and then backpedaling…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Ricky Nelson was a celebrity before he became a teen idol recording star. And when he became a teen idol recording star he didn’t follow…

His name is Jonathan Ross. At the risk of triggering commenter Anon, I'ma go ahead and call him a murderer, even though, as a legal term, "murder" only applies to…

H/t to Mike Dinsmore, who posted this in the open thread the other day. I'm not sure how many readers clicked that link, but the AI-generated video has been spreading…

Once upon a time, the goal of cosmetic surgery was to make a person look younger naturally. No more. You probably noticed what they call Mar-a-Lago Face, the exaggerated look…

Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, the two members of the Police who aren't Sting, have taken the band's songwriter and vocalist to court over royalties for their best-known song, "Every…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…