Team Biden Stoops to New Low
Hot on the heels of Dr. Jill telling America that Joe might not be the best candidate but people should vote for him anyway, Team Biden has released a campaign…
Song of the Day 8/26: Elvis Costello, “Watch Your Step”
"Trust," released in 1981, is one of Elvis Costello's under-appreciated efforts, mostly remembered only for "Clubland." I always liked this track, with its understated air of menace, Costello's vague but…
Seems Gen X Is the Generation That Likes Trump Best
Certain people take great glee in blaming everything on the Boomer generation, but, ironically, it's not the Boomers who show the least resistance to Trump. From a Monmouth University poll…
Song of the Day 8/25: Edwin Hawkins Singers, “Oh Happy Day”
Back in the day, the Top 40 included all sorts of music, even gospel, as evidenced by this song hitting No. 4 in the country in 1969. Edwin Hawkins, director…
Song of the Day 8/23: Primitive Radio Gods, “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand”
Another one-hit wonder from the '90s, "Phone Booth" traveled a long road to No. 1 on the modern rock chart in 1996. It started several years earlier, when songwriter Chris…
Song of the Day 8/22: Fastball, “The Way”
Fastball is a band out of Austin, Texas, that formed in 1995 and scored a massive modern-rock hit in 1998 with this rockabilly-flavored tale of a road trip with no…
Song of the Day 8/21: Willie Nelson, “Red Headed Stranger”
The title song and the conceptual genesis of the album that made Willie Nelson's career. "The Tale of the Red Headed Stranger" was a nearly forgotten country tune that Willie…
Song of the Day 8/20: Old 97’s, “Buick City Complex”
I drove the other day past the Boxwood Road plant, still under demolition, and didn't realize I should have rolled up the windows. Most of the buildings are now piles…
Song of the Day 8/19: Bill Deal and the Rhondels, “May I”
It's beach music, it's blue-eyed soul, and while it only reached No. 39 on the Hot 100, it made a national act out of a band that had been playing…
Song of the Day 8/17: Roger McGuinn, “Ballad of Easy Rider”
Actor Peter Fonda died yesterday at age 79, 50 years after the release of his most famous film project, "Easy Rider." Fonda asked Dylan to write the film's theme song.…
Song of the Day 8/15: Charles Manson, “Look at Your Game Girl”
Director Quentin Tarantino's latest "let's wish away the bad parts of history" film is tangentially related to the Manson Family murders in 1969 Los Angeles. Some critics have complained that…
Give Me Your Pale, Your Blond
Very few things Trump has done have pissed me off more than the exhumation of racist sack of shit Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia AG, for a job as acting…
Song of the Day 8/14: Patti Smith, “Summer Cannibals”
A standout track from Patti Smith's 1996 comeback album "Gone Again," the song was started by her husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith (of MC5 fame), who wrote the music and had…