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Why is Chris Coons Against the Separation of Church and State?

By Alby August 13, 20191 Comment

Chris Coons' homoerotic little boys' "Christian" club in Washington is getting the Netflix docu-series treatment, as once again Jeff Sharlet tries to pull back the curtain on "The Family," a…

Song of the Day 8/13: Elvis Presley, “In the Ghetto”

By Alby August 13, 2019

Another in our series of "nothing has changed" songs, "In the Ghetto" was recorded 50 years ago and, as one black guy watching this in a reaction video said, the…

Song of the Day 8/12: The New Pornographers, “Falling Down the Stairs of Your Love”

By Alby August 12, 2019

Vancouver supergroup the New Pornographers last week released this single from their upcoming LP "In the Morse Code of Brake Lights." This is the indie group's eighth album, and by…

Song of the Day 8/10: Frijid Pink, “House of the Rising Sun”

By Alby August 10, 20191 Comment

In the late '60s and early '70s the American Midwest was one of the world's hottest markets for rock music, and the region's musicians responded by forming an ever-changing succession…

Song of the Day 8/9: Brute Force, “The King of Fuh”

By Alby August 9, 2019

Recorded back in 1969, this single seems to presage the coming of a certain someone. There was a beautiful land called Fuh And in this land there was a king…

Song of the Day 8/8: The Tremeloes, “Here Comes My Baby”

By Alby August 8, 2019

So I'm at a wedding with a pretty kick-ass band -- horn section, multiple vocalists, the kind of $10,000-a-gig wedding band that can cover anything and sound good doing it.…

Song of the Day 8/7: Neil Young, “The Losing End”

By Alby August 7, 2019

In California in 1969, just about every folk-rock band and musician was dabbling in, or fully embracing, country rock. Not Neil Young. He went straight country, no rock, on the…

‘Texodus’ Foreshadows the End of the GOP

By Alby August 6, 201928 Comments

There's a famous passage in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" in which the author's avatar asks a drinking buddy, "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways," the friend replies.…

Song of the Day 8/6: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Peaches”

By Alby August 6, 20191 Comment

It's the height of peach season and I couldn't resist. Local orchards have millions of peaches, and I hum this tune every time I buy a half-peck. Remember when this…

El Paso Shooter Spelled It Out for Us

By Alby August 5, 20191 Comment

This photo apparently was one of the few things the El Paso shooter tagged with a "like" on his Twitter account.

Song of the Day 8/5: Chairmen of the Board, “Give Me Just a Little More Time”

By Alby August 5, 20192 Comments

Put on your shaggin' shoes. This song is on any Carolina Beach Music compilation worth hearing. General Johnson, lead singer of the Chairmen of the Board, toured the beach circuit…

The New Civil War Has Already Begun

By Alby August 4, 201910 Comments

For all the yammering about a new civil war, Americans don't seem to realize it's already begun. It's not a strictly sectional war like the first one. It's a modern…

Song of the Day 8/4: B.J. Thomas, “Mighty Clouds of Joy”

By Alby August 4, 2019

If white churches had music like this at their services I'd go more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11UD4odvMgY After his run as a pop singer, B.J. Thomas had a long career in gospel…