Posts by Alby

Pretty much everyone in the Trump administration could accurately title his memoirs "Career of Evil," so I hope Patti Smith sues anyone who dares to. The godmother of punk wrote…

The collapse of the Kansas City Chiefs might be the latest evidence that everything Trump touches turns to shit. His chosen gladiator, Pat Mahomes, landed flat on his ass six…

The Eagles won their first Super Bowl by beating the best team in the league, and they'll have to do the same thing tonight if they're going to win their…

That man is Elon Musk, and it behooves the Democrats to not just keep an eye on him, but to tie the Bloated Dotard to Musk's unpopular, pasty-white ass at…

Turns out a lot of people who either voted for Trump or skipped voting altogether are surprised that he's doing all the things he said he would do, including things…

This one's pretty self-explanatory. It should hold true for, oh, the next 1,430 days or so. Not that I'm counting or anything. The Damned were overshadowed by their more obnoxiously…

Word comes that the Musk administration has given all personnel in the Central Intelligence Agency his "buy-out" offer. It seems to me that pissing off thousands of spies might be…

Even without Demolition Donny's pointless tariffs, prices aren't going down anytime soon, by which I mean "ever." Song of the Day is well-equipped for what's coming, because as long as…

As El Somnambulo noted, last night's Grammy Awards handed out trophies to both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – the Beatles for "Now and Then," a John Lennon demo…

As my late colleague Allan Loudell used to say, "It's Groundhog Day all over again." I'll watch the 1993 cult classic again tonight as a tonic against our vile, egotistic…

Some people – old ones – will remember Marianne Faithfull as Mick Jagger's girlfriend from London's Swinging '60s. She was 17 and just starting out as a folk singer when…

Summer festival lineups are being announced, and as usual the biggest news is about a band reunion. Wanna feel old? The band is Rilo Kiley. Formed by erstwhile child actors…

I don't think this song, released last fall, made it onto any of El Somnambulo's monthly new music roundups, but it's gotten lots of airplay on WXPN. Beware – it…