Posts by Alby

Venice Beach-based singer-songwriter Sunny War got a big media push when her latest album, "Anarchist Gospel," dropped back in February, but the song that WXPN picked up didn't catch my…

The grandpas are alright. As if to prove that not all geriatrics are as decrepit as America's politicians, the Rolling Stones are releasing an album of new material Oct. 20.…

Gary Wright, the rock keyboard player best known for his 1975 solo LP "The Dream Weaver," died Monday at age 80 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease and dementia.…

Steve Harwell, the longtime lead singer for Smash Mouth, died Monday of liver failure brought on by years of alcoholism. He was 56 years old and had been in bad…

Summer's over, all right. Jimmy Buffett, who founded a billion-dollar fortune with a humorous break-up song featuring a popular cocktail, died yesterday at age 76. Along the way he founded…

Here's some blue-eyed soul one for your Friday night dance party. Len Barry was the lead singer for the Dovells, the Philadelphia doo-wop group who reached No. 2 in 1961…

Mitch McConnell's freeze-up yesterday seems like a gift for all those people who wished something would shut him up, but it's also a reminder – and old people need them…

I swear this isn't a reference to Donald Trump, though it could be. Not because he's the size of a cow – hey, give him his due, he's a 6'3"…

Power pop was, in a way, the first alternative rock. In the early '70s, a time when the heavy rock of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple was ascendant, three bands…

Soul legend Al Green hasn't released an LP since 2008 or a single since 2018, so he got a lot of attention last week when he dropped a cover of…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona If country music is leaving a poor taste in your mouth thanks to Jason Aldean’s confrontational “Try That in a Small Town” or Oliver Anthony's…