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Song of the Day 4/11: Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, “Where’s the Money?”

By Alby April 11, 20241 Comment

Turns out Donald Trump's $175 million bond was posted by a company that isn't licensed to do so, doesn't have the capital required to back it up and doesn't promise…

Song of the Day 4/10: Huey Lewis and the News, “Back in Time”

By Alby April 10, 2024

In its third installment the "Back to the Future" film series sent Marty McFly back to the Old West. Arizona's Supreme Court did the same thing to Arizona's womenfolk yesterday.…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 10, 2024

By Alby April 10, 20241 Comment

The day after Trump pretended he'd let the states make their own decisions about abortion, the Arizona Supreme Court gave away the game by reinstating an 1864 ban on the…

Song of the Day 4/9: Clarence “Frogman” Henry, “Ain’t Got No Home”

By Alby April 9, 20244 Comments

You don't have to check, puck. Singer and pianist Clarence "Frogman" Henry died Sunday in his native New Orleans, age 87. His ability to sing in a frog's croak, a…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, April 9, 2024

By Alby April 9, 20242 Comments

The news, apparently spooked by yesterday's eclipse, went into hiding, so the media, as always, fell back on Trump. After a big buildup teasing his position on abortion – can…

Song of the Day 4/8: Pink Floyd, “Eclipse”

By Alby April 8, 2024

C'mon, what else would you expect? The final track from the LP that has spent more than 1,000 weeks on the Billboard album chart, with sales of more than 45…

DL Open Thread Monday, April 8, 2024

By Alby April 8, 20243 Comments

Klaatu barada nikto, motherfuckers. Welcome to the Day the News Stood Still. Whatever else is happening in the country has taken a back seat to this afternoon's total eclipse. In…

Song of the Day 4/7: Len, “Steal My Sunshine”

By Alby April 7, 2024

Showing you can make up doomsday theories about anything, TikTokers and other assorted nuts – looking at you, Alex Jones – have concocted a witches' brew of crackpot claims about…

Song of the Day 4/6: Bill Haley and His Comets, “Shake, Rattle and Roll”

By Alby April 6, 2024

The battle outside is ragin', but that's not what shook your windows and rattled your walls yesterday. It was a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered in northern New Jersey. It came just…

Song of the Day 4/5: MGMT, “Kids”

By Alby April 5, 2024

Are the misogynistic people behind the forced-birth movement really so oblivious to popular opinion that they think they can put the birth-control toothpaste back in the tube? Do they really…

Song of the Day 4/4: Eurythmics, “Here Comes the Rain Again”

By Alby April 4, 20243 Comments

H/t KentCoCat, who alerted me with how many days of heavy rainfall Delaware has gotten since the weather was supposed to turn cold – according to this article, triple the…

Song of the Day 4/3: Wilco, “War on War”

By Alby April 3, 20244 Comments

If we can have Peacekeeper missiles, why can't we have a war on war? One would come in handy about now. From Wilco's album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," posted online by…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 3, 2024

By Alby April 3, 20246 Comments

Just when you thought that Israel couldn't sink any lower, they drone-bombed a World Central Kitchen vehicle, killing seven people working to bring food to famine-stricken Gaza – despite having…