Posts by Alby

Hey, Matt Meyer! This one's for you! One of the deep cuts from "#1 Record," the 1972 debut album by Big Star that's regarded as one of the founding documents…

In 2012 somebody posted three songs to YouTube, purportedly by an obscure soul group from the early '70s, Milky Edwards and the Chamberlings. All three were covers, soul arrangements of…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona If you wonder how a lunkhead (I mean regular guy) like Travis Kelce landed the teen-girl whisperer who became the most powerful woman in the…

There's no pleasing some people. Hardcore Oasis fans, for example. Noel and Liam Gallagher finally agreed to work together again, reforming Oasis after 15 years of sniping at each other,…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Now that “Saturday Night Fever” (maybe) and the Bee Gees (probably) have been rehabilitated by the cool kids, think back to the soundtrack. Did you…

The Israel-Gaza War started with a massacre at a music festival, and nearly two years later the music festival business is still feeling the effects. Israel's brutal response to the…

Hayseed-Americans – formerly hicks, rubes, shit-kickers, stump-jumpers and chawbacons, all now subsets of MAGA – are in a dither over a corporate logo change. The restaurant/retail chain Cracker Barrel has…

Summer's waning fast, and you won't get many days as perfect as today for a picnic. Delawareans can legally make it a stoned one, and Laura Nyro can provide the…

Guest post by Gary Mullinax Foghat is a boogie-rock band that thrilled headbangers in the ‘70s with songs like “Fool for the City” and “Slow Ride.” Foghat is not the…

Jack White won't be getting any Kennedy Center gigs anytime soon, not with his attitude. He posted a photo of Trump with Zelenskyy in the redecorated Oval Office, along with…

How many times have you thought this since Trump took office? When this song appeared in the 1985 spy movie "The Falcon and the Snowman," it was meant literally –…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona This is a post about Wolfman Jack, powerful radio signals and goat testicles. It’s also about exciting music U.S. fans could find only on Mexican…