Posts by Alby

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…

You can better understand the sentiment behind the line "hope I die before I get old" when you see what reactionaries some of rock's elder statesmen have become. Eric Clapton…

The biggest surprise about the right-wing freakout over drag queens is that they haven't yet shifted the focus to porn. If they're going to get upset over men putting women's…

The stories about all those Jan. 6 co-conspirators crying the blues about their legal bills ... as someone put it, they signed up for fucking around, not finding out. As…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Tim Hardin and his fans had a reason to believe. He could write much-loved songs like the one with that title. “If I Were a…

All the Republicans taking part in their upcoming debate can breathe a sigh of relief now that brave Sir Donald has run away. The indignity they would have had to…

When George Lucas' "American Graffiti" hit theaters in August 1973, its September 1962 setting seemed a long time gone. The coming-of-age movie evoked a time of lost innocence, before the…

If WJBR is going to go religious, it doesn't have to leave music behind. Even leaving aside gospel music, there are lots of songs about Jesus they could play. Granted,…