Song of the Day 3/28: Dave Edmunds, “I Hear You Knocking”
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…
Song of the Day 3/27: Townes Van Zandt, “Pancho and Lefty”
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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…
Song of the Day 3/26: Leonard Cohen, “The Partisan”
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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…
Song of the Day 3/25: Dan Wilson, “A Song Can Be About Anything”
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…
Song of the Day 3/24: Jefferson Airplane, “It’s No Secret”
The second Trump administration is incompetents all the way down. The latest example: National Security Adviser Michael Waltz added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat on Signal. Goldberg…
Song of the Day 3/23: Bob Dylan, “Everything Is Broken”
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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…
Song of the Day 3/21: Funkadelic, “Super Stupid”
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…
Song of the Day 3/20: Steely Dan, “The Second Arrangement”
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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…
Song of the Day 3/19: Matthew Sweet, “Farther Down”
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…
Song of the Day 3/18: The Youngbloods, “Darkness, Darkness”
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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…
Song of the Day 3/17: Paddy Reilly, “The Fields of Athenry”
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Nobody writes more heart-rending ballads than the Irish, which is fitting given the litany of tragedies they've suffered, mostly at the hands of the British. None has had a greater…
Song of the Day 3/16: Magnolia Electric Co., “The Dark Don’t Hide It”
The best Americana singer-songwriter you never heard of, Jason Molina, died 12 years ago today of alcohol-induced organ failure at age 39. He was revered by his peers in the…
Song of the Day 3/15: R.E.M., “Pretty Persuasion”
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When they broke up the band 14 years ago, the members of R.E.M. swore they would never reunite. We've seen enough bands go back on such pronouncements to take that…