Posts by Alby

Most people who've heard of the Ndlovu Youth Choir encountered them back in 2019, when they reached the final round of "America's Got Talent," despite hailing from Limpopo, South Africa.…

Donald Trump has finally found a way to get people to stop talking about the Epstein Files: Let them think he's dying. His bruised hands and cankles and lack of…

Happy Labor Day, I suppose, though I don't see much to celebrate under a president who makes Reagan seem like a friend of the working man. This song from the…

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…