Posts by Alby

Haven't we all thought this in the past few months? Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn was a folkie who had written just a few political songs before he joined a 1983…

I don't know whether to dedicate this one to Elon Musk or the protesters who are taking out their fury on his Tesla dealerships. It's the signature song by the…

Major law firms are knuckling under to Trump, but Delaware lawmakers one-upped them: They surrendered to Elon Musk himself. Unfortunately, they fucked up by not following Cheap Trick songwriter Rick…

As much as I hate everything involved in the Trump maladministration, this is just sad. In a lame attempt to distract from its national security ineptitude, they tried to send…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Townes Van Zandt’s life and career were too erratic to earn him much credit for his fantastic songs, except from other singers of folkish country…

The American resistance to the Trump/Musk fascist takeover has yet to get organized, but the torching of Tesla dealerships shows the will to sabotage already exists. What we don't yet…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona About a week ago the‘’90s band Semisonic denounced Trump for using its Grammy-nominated song “Closing Time” in an anti-immigrant video that spread a message opposite…

Yet another song from a generation ago that fits the current moment all too well. From the 1989 album "Oh Mercy," viewed at the time as a comeback for Dylan…

An acid-funk theme song for the MAGAverse, courtesy of George Clinton. From Funkadelic's seminal "Maggot Brain" LP of 1971, with Eddie Hazel on lead guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12D0tMzxH4A Audioslave, the supergroup of…

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, initially the leaders and eventually the only two permanent members of Steely Dan, were rather obsessive. Known for fussing endlessly over their recordings, they stopped…

Given the volume of bad news over the past six months, it's inevitable that some of it slipped by without much notice. So I was surprised the other day when…

Jesse Colin Young, the folk-rock singer-songwriter best known for his recording of the hippie anthem "Get Together," died Sunday. He was 83. Born Perry Miller, he adopted his stage name…