Song of the Day 1/12: The J.B.’s, “Pass the Peas”
Okay, I get why Southern states want to starve their schoolchildren over the summer months, when school's out of session and they can't get free lunch. Those states are governed…
Song of the Day 1/11: Billy Pilgrim, “Insomniac”
Folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim formed in Atlanta in the early '90s, when R.E.M. was breaking indie music into the mainstream. Because both Kristian Bush and Andrew Hyra wrote songs, played…
Song of the Day 1/10: Wheatus, “Teenage Dirtbag”
Wheatus is a one-hit wonder whose big hit is more than 20 years old, but it's become a classic because it's been revived so many times over the years. Brendan…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024
The Israeli attempt to wipe out Hamas has brought widespread condemnation, but since calls on conscience are doing nothing to dissuade Netanyahu from his murderous course. So the focus of…
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024
Some of the aides who flipped on Trumpo gave Jack Smith damning evidence about the traitor's behavior as the attack on the Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6. True to form,…
Song of the Day 1/8: Fountains of Wayne, “Hey Julie”
For a while there, when the pandemic forced most people to work from home and most of the work got done anyway, Americans looked forward to a future free of…
DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 8, 2024
Brace yourselves for a tsunsami of Trump-in-court news this week as the human colostomy bag faces deadlines and hearings in three of the legal cases against him. I predict those…
Song of the Day 1/7: Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”
I still can't get over Trump's bonkers statement about magnets, to wit: "Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it…
Song of the Day 1/6: Lynyrd Skynyrd, “That Smell”
Given the media's eight-year obsession with Donald Trump, you would think the fact that he's odiferous would have emerged before now. A person of my close acquaintance who interviewed him…
Song of the Day 1/4: Coven, “One Tin Soldier”
Unless you grew up in the '60s, it's hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays…
Song of the Day 1/4: T Bone Burnett, “Humans From Earth”
T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024
Gold Bar Bob Menendez used his position as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to run quite a racket, according to his new federal indictment. It doesn't add any…
Song of the Day 1/2: Green Day, “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
Punk-pop veterans and Rock Hall of Famers Green Day waded into America's politico-cultural wars on New Year's Eve when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band's signature…