Song of the Day 5/6: Jake Holmes, “Dazed and Confused”
Led Zeppelin is notorious for claiming writing credit for songs they "borrowed." It wasn't just old blues numbers, like turning Willie Dixon's "You Need Love" into "Whole Lotta Love" and…
Song of the Day 5/5: Leon Russell, “Alcatraz”
Having run out of old fixations to issue executive orders about, low-flow toilets have been conquered, Trump unveiled some new ones yesterday, and they're even dumber than the old ones.…
Song of the Day 5/4: Jill Sobule, “America Back”
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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died early Thursday in a house fire in Minnesota. Every obit identifies her by her 1995 single, "I Kissed a Girl," a queer milestone as the first…
DL Open Thread Saturday, May 3, 2025
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Speed bumps on Newark's Main Street? There's pressure to make that happen after a stolen U-Haul van fatally struck a student, eight months after another student was killed by a…
Song of the Day 5/2: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, “The Twist”
Discussing the induction of Chubby Checker into the rock and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nathan Arizona said one song – "The Twist," obviously – shouldn't be enough to…
Song of the Day 5/1: Ed Pickford, “The Workers’ Song”
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It's International Workers' Day, something Americans don't observe – socialism has never appealed to a nation full of millionaires-in-waiting. Well, too bad, capitalist scum. It's unlikely the workers of the…
Song of the Day 4/30: Counting Crows, “Spaceman in Tulsa”
This song, released in February, hasn't made El Somnambulo's list of faves (I'm not sure it qualifies yet by his rules), but it caught my ear the other day when…
Song of the Day 4/29: Chubby Checker, “Let’s Twist Again”
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For me, the biggest surprise among this year's inductees to the Rock Hall of Fame was Chubby Checker, who popularized the twist and several other novelty dances, and whose hit-making…
Song of the Day 4/28: Bad Company, “Can’t Get Enough”
At this point I'm not even going to bother slagging the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's decisions about who does and doesn't get in. By now everybody knows that…
Song of the Day 4/27: The Velvet Underground, “Sunday Morning”
This first track on the first album by the Velvet Underground couldn't be more misleading – with its full production it sounds nothing like the rest of that seminal LP.…
Song of the Day 4/25: Starship, “Sara”
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A reminder of how far Republican politics has sunk was highlighted earlier this week in New York when Sarah Palin – 'memba her? – lost her libel case against the…
Song of the Day 4/24: The Pointer Sisters, “Fire”
New Jersey's largest wildfire in 20 years has consumed more than 13,000 acres in Ocean County, not far from Bruce Springsteen's old stomping grounds. That's not the kind of fire…
Song of the Day 4/23: The Contours, “First I Look at the Purse”
MAGAts like to project a tough, scary image, but their frequent fuck-ups undercut the bluster. For instance, Homeland Security chief Kristie Noem, known as ICE Barbie for posing in combat…