Posts by Alby

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…

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…

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…

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…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona When Bobby Womack crosses 110th Street in the song by that name, he’s crossing the traditional demarcation line between Manhattan and Harlem. Harlem has the…

I don't care that Democrats haven't made angry noises about the end of our constitutional republic because I only care what they do, not what they say. Now that it's…