Posts by Alby

The Records were a British power-pop band of the late '70s-early '80s, one of the post-punk, skinny-tie, jangly-guitar outfits that carried the torch for rock 'n' roll against its deformed…

Every time I hear another attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this song pops into my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06a19-S77F4 Some people say this is the Dan's answer to John Lennon's "Imagine," (Lennon, remember,…

The star of this track is a guy who almost became a Rolling Stone. Wayne Perkins was a session guitarist out of Muscle Shoals, one of a half-dozen or so…

It's hard for those who didn't live through the '60s to appreciate how large the Beatles loomed over pop culture. Not only did their music spawn entire new genres, they…

That Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" is great, but it's so gloomy. Paul Anka, on his album of rock covers, gave it a much more upbeat, ring-a-ding-ding reading that…

Ryan Adams has found himself in a world of trouble for something rock stars used to consider one of the perks of the job: Smutting around with underage girls. The…

This song, the highlight of the band's 1971 album "A Space in Time," was by critical consensus the pinnacle of British blues guitarist Alvin Lee's career, though I have to…