Posts by Alby

The odds are against it, but thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College, if all the toss-up states break just the right way, the presidential race could come down…

WXPN's David Dye is so impatient for the election to be over he devoted an entire show yesterday to songs about waiting. I had completely forgotten about this one, which…

Two Monica Beard mailers landed in my mailbox yesterday. At first glance they seemed like duplicates, because both showed her against a pink background on the front, with a list…

Another song that sadly hasn't lost any relevance over the past 54 years. In early 1970 Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong took a hard look at the wreckage of the…

Camille Saint-Saëns was one of the most famous and prolific composers of his day, and his serious works are part of the classical canon, but he's best known to the…

Joe Biden is getting grief for calling MAGAts "garbage," which I maintain was just him being polite. Garbage got its name when a friend used the term to describe the…

Stevie Nicks is everywhere the past few weeks, appearing on Saturday Night Live, releasing a new song about women's rights and, most recently, appearing on a CBS Sunday show to…