Posts by Alby

It's been a tough year for Ireland's musicians. Sinead O'Connor died in July, and this week Shane MacGowan, frontman for the Pogues, died a week after being discharged from a…

Henry Kissinger was already 54 years old when Billy Joel, a scamp half his age at the time, released this banger in 1977. The third single from "The Stranger," his…

The music world is still trying to figure out what to make of the new album from André 3000, best known as half of the hip-hop duo Outkast. Though he's…

Director Rob Reiner – or was it Marty DiBergi? – confirmed yesterday that filming on a sequel to "This Is Spinal Tap" will begin in February. The new movie reportedly…

Somebody put Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" on the TV on Thanksgiving – the multi-year plot contains two big Thanksgiving scenes – and I got to hear the song…

I'll take any excuse for playing Graham Parker's blue-eyed soul, so here's one for Dr. Bethany Hall Long. From his 1976 debut album, "Howlin' Wind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSh9AcCEn0 Parker released a new…

Just in case you're not feeling all that thankful today, Mary Gauthier's song about visiting prison on the holiday will remind you that some people have it much worse. Unlike…

Here's the proof that we're living in the most contentious times since the Civil War: Daryl Hall is suing John Oates. The lawsuit, filed in Nashville, is sealed, so we…