A message for people who know who they are. Dave Mason is one of those rockers who, like Mick Ronson, was famous as a sideman but never became a front-rank…
It's been 50 years since we got there and there's still nobody living on the moon. Heck, we don't even visit any more. But that's not really what this Sesame…
The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing has triggered a wave of nostalgia for the space race of the '60s. This song was written and recorded in 1965 by…
South African musician and anthropologist Johnny Clegg, who died Tuesday at age 66, had a brief window of exposure in the U.S. back in the '80s, when apartheid came under…
It's hard to find, but news occurs that doesn't have anything to do with the Commander 'n' Thief almost every day. A representative sampling: Tennessee Cops Warn Flushed Drugs Create…
Snoop Dogg wrote and Dr. Dre produced this hip-hop classic in 1994, and the Gourds covered it less than two years later. An alt-country band from Austin, The Gourds recorded…
Remember how criticism of corporate Democrats -- for example, a certain former presidential nominee -- was billed as "doing the Republicans' work for them" by her supporters? Just a reminder…
Hey kidz, 'memba the innocent days of nine years ago? Mike Castle was running for Senate and when he was challenged by Christine O'Donnell we all had a good laugh.…
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Jake Xerxes Fussell is an old-fashioned folk musician, interested mostly in preservation of songs that are still in the public domain. This song, the single from his newly released album…
Most of Janis Joplin's hits were reworked blues songs, often re-arranged to the point where the original song was barely recognizable. That's pretty much the case with the Bee Gees'…
Hard as it is to tell by our bozo-besotted media, the Persimmon Peril is not involved in everything happening on Earth. Here are stories that were eclipsed by Trump's giant…
Maybe the problem with out old, out-of-touch Democrats in Congress is that they've never heard one of the 114 million plays this song has on YouTube, never mind iTunes and…