Posts by Alby

Thanks to the Saudis, comedy is no longer a laughing matter. The country's latest attempt to appear less odious is the currently running Riyadh Comedy festival, featuring a bunch of…

Anyone who thinks the Trump Era calls for protest songs by folk singers should check out Jesse Welles. The 32-year-old Arkansas native has been releasing pointedly snarky tunes about timely…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Would Cole Porter name his band Prefab Sprout? Probably not. But Paddy McAloon, leader of that British pop-rock group, has drawn comparisons to Porter for…

Donald Trump, deep into the dementia that has stalked him for years, has declared Portland, Ore., a war zone, so he's sending in the troops. There's no evidence here on…

Looks like Big Cabinet caught Trump's ear, and those just-announced 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities are going to cost homebuilders and remodelers, not to mention homeowners, even…

The musician known as Yusuf/Cat Stevens was scheduled to kick off the American leg of his current tour in Philadelphia Oct. 2, but it seems the show is likely to…

Trump confused the United Nations with Nürnberg yesterday, and most of the audience sat stone-faced through his disquisition. My guess is the translators went on a wildcat strike and refused…

Autism, you'll be happy to know, is now a thing of the past, thanks to sex pervert and whale carcass mutilator RFK Jr. - just keep the pregnant women away…

Jeff Tweedy, the singer-songwriter who led Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, is an icon of what 30 years ago was known as Americana – back then, basically folk rock with more…

Before they joined Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks performed as a duo. They released one folk-rock album in 1973 that got more attention for its cover than anything…

For entertainers, dying is supposedly a good career move, but it doesn't always work out that way. Sometimes it's just a one-way ticket to Palookaville. Darrell Banks coulda been somebody.…

Donald Trump quite obviously wants to be a king, so it probably galls him – doesn't everything? – to visit an actual one. The contrast couldn't be starker: Charles is…