Posts by Alby

The Replacements' status as the greatest missed opportunity in rock history has gotten a major boost with the release of a newly remixed edition of their fourth LP, their major-label…

No group suffered a sharper drop in popularity when rock music turned from psychedelic pop to blues-based hard rock than the Association. Terry Kirkman, one of the group's founders and…

It's rare that the Atlantic has 15 named storms in a hurricane season, so the odds were slim that we'd get a storm named Ophelia dumping all this rain on…

Kevin McCarthy's inability to control the Cuckoo Caucus has pundits speculating that he's not long for his gavel, because the cuckoos are all for 86ing him. I don't expect they'd…

Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, embroiled himself in controversy this week – not for the first time – when…

Nobody called it the Day the Music Died, but 50 years ago today Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash in Natchitoches, La., cutting short his career…

Country music's instincts have always been reactionary. Back in 1969, when people were realizing Richard Nixon's promise to end the war in Viet Nam was bullshit, Merle Haggard wrote "Okie…

It's hard to tell nowadays, but pop psychology wasn't always with us. The book that brought it to the masses was published in 1964 by psychiatrist Eric Berne, who noticed…

A little heavy petting music for Lauren Boebert, along with a suggestion that next time she get a room. Jewel Akens sang with a number of doo-wop groups in the…