Posts by Alby

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of honorees for 2023 the other day and, as usual, the headliners don't scream rock and roll. Nobody begrudges Willie…

Apparently every American citizen is now required to voice a position on transgendered youth. Paul Stanley, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of glam rockers Kiss, went public the other day…

Flags in Canada should be at half-staff today -- singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, considered the nation's troubadour, died yesterday at age 84. Lightfoot, who came out of the same Toronto folk…

I caught half of this song on the radio the other day and thought it was some rediscovered '60s nugget. Turns out the Heavy Heavy is a Brighton, UK, band…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona There aren’t all that many chords and chord progressions in music. If a songwriter uses some that already exist, is that plagiarism? Can he or…

Tucker Carlson has joined Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly on the list of Fox News blowhards who angered and concerned liberals only to lose their soapbox when Ol' Rupe pulled…

This one's for Dianne Feinstein who, almost everyone agrees, is both old and in the way. Feinstein was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when those hippies Jerry Garcia…

For no better reason than the nice weather, a slice of sunshine pop that's become a standard since its release in 1985, when it reached No. 9 on the Hot…

Get-well wishes go out to homeboy George Thorogood, who announced the cancellation of the first month of his 50th-anniversary tour due to "a very serious medical condition that will require…