Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 3/5: James and Bobby Purify, “I’m Your Puppet”
Among their many desperate justifications for starting a war on Iran, Trump and Marco Rubio have slipped in the one that’s almost certainly true: Netanyahu made them do it. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that […]
Song of the Day 3/4: Nazareth, “Shot Me Down”
The downing of three American combat jets in the early hours of the War on Iran were blamed on friendly fire from Kuwaiti air defenses. It now appears that it wasn’t ground-based missiles that brought them down but a Kuwaiti fighter pilot who mistook the American planes for Irani attackers. I’m sure the lack of […]
Song of the Day 3/3: Radiohead, “Let Down”
Lots of artists have protested the use of their music by the Trump regime, but the British band Radiohead put their objection more bluntly than most after “Let Down,” a track from their seminal 1997 LP “OK Computer,” turned up in an ICE video. “We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social […]
Song of the Day 3/2: Neil Sedaka, “Bad Blood”
Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who died last week at age 86, had two separate eras of chart-topping success in his nearly seven-decade career. Yet his name is probably unfamiliar to anyone born after, say, 1980, because all his hits came earlier. Sedaka almost became a concert pianist. He won a scholarship to Julliard’s youth program when […]
Song of the Day 3/1: Canadian Resistance Army, “Not Your 51st State”
H/t Al Jackson, who sent me the link to the most recent AI creation of DesertFlyingFox, the creator behind the Greenland Defense Front video. This time around the anti-American forces include beavers, moose, grizzlies and an air force of Canada geese, all fueled by – what else? – Tim Horton’s.
Song of the Day 2/27: Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now”
Dedicated to El Somnambulo, for reasons he’ll understand. Johnny Nash started singing as a teenager in Houston and released his debut single in 1956. In the first 16 years of his career he had exactly two Top 40 hits, and one of them just squeaked in at No. 39. He was way ahead of the […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2026
Yes, I’m posting this a day early. Why? Loads of new tunes–and new discoveries, this month. I just couldn’t wait. So sue me. Perhaps the greatest musical month of ALL TI-I-I-I-ME!: Yes, I’d book ’em at the Gild Hall if I was still booking shows: BTW, it’s possible that you’ll prefer this Boy Golden song […]
Song of the Day 2/26: Phil Collins, “I Don’t Care Anymore”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of nominees to the usual criticisms, mainly that half of the acts have little if any connection to the genre of music in the institution’s name. As Paste magazine reported, the list comprises Sade, Phil Collins, Oasis, The Black Crowes, Joy Division and New Order, […]
Song of the Day 2/25: Bettye LaVette, “Everything Is Broken”
A true State of the Union address would have sounded a lot like this Bob Dylan number from “Oh Mercy,” the 1989 LP that critics treated as a comeback album. But not his original version, where Daniel Lanois’ glossy production distracts from Dylan’s delivery. Soul singer Bettye LaVette improved it considerably by slowing it down, […]
Song of the Day 2/24: Dion, “Runaround Sue”
He was just Dion, sans the Belmonts and without his surname DiMucci, in 1961 when he assembled an impromptu doo-wop chorus at a party and started ad-libbing lyrics about a girl who wouldn’t be true. When he brought it to songwriter Ernie Maresca they came up with a No. 1 hit. Guys have been writing […]
Song of the Day 2/23: America, “A Horse With No Name”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona When listeners first heard America’s “A Horse With No Name” in 1972 a lot of them had questions. Why did this new Neil Young song seem to pop up out of nowhere? And why would Neil write a line like “the heat was hot?” Well, at least they knew where […]
Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”
The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days. Don’t worry, they restocked the supply so the, um, games could continue safely, but it does make one wonder where they find the energy to […]
Song of the Day 2/20: U2, “American Obituary”
U2 released its first new music in nearly a decade on Ash Wednesday, and the lead track on the six-song EP “Days of Ash” joins the growing list of anti-DHS protest songs. Though “American Obituary” sounds like the title for a requiem for the United States, it’s actually an elegy for Renee Good. Renee Good, […]
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