Posts by Alby

Bruce Springsteen was once hailed as a new Dylan. The comparison never fit – the young Dylan came to fame by writing the best songs to come out of the…

Of all the people in Trump's As-Seen-On-TV cabinet, the downright weirdest might be RFK Jr. While just as deluded and fear-aggressive as any MAGAt, he's at war with an entirely…

As far as Donald Trump is concerned, the best part of being president is that people give you stuff for free – catnip to the kind of grasping poseur Trump…

Frank Zappa's record label wouldn't let him call his band the Mothers, so he added "of Invention" to pacify them. But nobody called them that. They were the Mothers, though…

The Who has announced another farewell tour. Yeah, sure, you might scoff – wasn't their first farewell tour back in 1982? Yes it was, and it took seven whole years…

It doesn't get any easier no matter how old you get. Mine was a corgi named Mackie – formally, Honeyfox Four on the Floor – and after 14 1/2 years…

Smokey Robinson, composer of umpteen romantic soul classics, was sued yesterday by four former housekeepers who accuse him of sexual assault and rape, among a raft of other charges. He…

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…

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.…

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…

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…