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Song of the Day 3/27: The Walker Brothers, “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”

By Alby March 27, 20194 Comments

UK music critics and fans are mourning the March 22 death of Scott Walker, pop idol-turned-avant garde composer. He's most widely known as lead singer of the Walker Brothers, a…

New Jersey Harshes the Legal Marijuana Mellow

By Alby March 26, 20192 Comments

The road to recreational marijuana legalization was closed for repairs in New Jersey yesterday, when a wide-ranging bill that would have both legalized weed and made it easier to expunge…

Song of the Day 3/26: Was (Not Was), “Somewhere in America There’s a Street Named After My Dad”

By Alby March 26, 20196 Comments

When Detroit natives David Weiss and Don Fagenson formed Was (Not Was), they both adopted the surname Was and combined to create music based on a simple philosophy. In the…

Song of the Day 3/25: Jay and the Techniques, “Keep the Ball Rollin’ “

By Alby March 25, 2019

Most soul music of the '60s came out of Detroit, or Memphis, or Chicago. But sometimes it came from the most unlikely places, like Allentown, Pa. That's where singer Jay…

We Couldn’t Keep It

By Alby March 25, 20196 Comments

"Well, Doctor, what have we got —- a Republic or a Monarchy?" "A Republic, if you can keep it."

Song of the Day 3/24: Brian May, “New Horizons”

By Alby March 24, 20192 Comments

As most rock fans know, Queen guitarist Brian May also holds a doctorate in astrophysics, a fact that earned him an invitation to join NASA's team for New Horizons, a…

Song of the Day 3/23: Linus of Hollywood, “Don’t Fuck It Up”

By Alby March 23, 20192 Comments

Musicians who record power pop must realize by now that it's almost impossible to make a living at it, so Kevin Dotson, better known as Linus of Hollywood, keeps lots…

Song of the Day 3/22: Stevie Wonder and Tom Jones, “A Place In The Sun/Uptight/It’s Not Unusual”

By Alby March 22, 2019

"Ebony and Ivory," the duet by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, hit the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1982. But it wasn't the first…

Why Wooing Fox News Viewers Is a Mug’s Game

By Alby March 21, 20192 Comments

A Democratic polling organization explored whether the party should try to woo Republicans through their propaganda organ, Fox News. The results are sobering evidence of the power of propaganda. The…

Song of the Day 3/21: The Buckinghams, “Kind of a Drag”

By Alby March 21, 20193 Comments

In 1965 a Chicago group called the Pulsations was hired as house band for a local TV station's music show. With the British Invasion in full swing, the show's producers…

Beto: Hero or Zero?

By Alby March 20, 201937 Comments

Love him or hate him, no candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has polarized the party's voters more than Beto O'Rourke. The only one close is also the only one…

Song of the Day 3/20: Godley & Creme, “Cry”

By Alby March 20, 20192 Comments

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were half of the art-rock band 10cc for much of the 1970s, but left to pursue an invention called the gizmotron, a device that attached…

Man Who Stopped New Zealand Massacre Was Good Guy Without a Gun

By Alby March 19, 20193 Comments

The so-far unsung hero of the New Zealand massacre was not, per U.S. gun-sissy lore, a good guy with a gun. Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah, a refugee from Afghanistan, was with…