Posts by Alby

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…

It's easier to wreck things than build them. It requires very little brain – three-year-olds are good at it, which lines right up with Trump being good at it. When…

There are those who think we should be nicer to MAGAts, because – this is their theory, not mine – MAGAts vote against their own self-interests in response to liberals…

Elon Musk told Germany's far-right party that Germans should get over their guilt about that whole Holocaust thing. So here's a message for "Misunderstood Gesture" Musk from the – gasp!…

Raise a glass for Pete Hegseth. He's probably already raised a few himself. Willie Nelson recorded this in 1970, before he became an outlaw, though he does look a lot…

It's said that if you walk into any bar in Nova Scotia and sing, "Oh, the year was 1778," you're sure to be answered, "How I wish I was in…

Best way to cope with the firehose of MAGA sewage spewing from the media is to skip stories about what might happen or what various things could mean, stick to…

Everybody calls Garth Hudson, who died yesterday at 87, the Band's secret weapon, but anybody who knows the Band at all knows he was far from secret. Fans knew he…

Trump and his jackals want to end birthright citizenship, so brace for lots of stories about whether they can or can't and the legalities and the sure-to-follow lawsuits. This is…