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Guest post by Nathan Arizona In 1953 a young doo-wop group entered Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio in Memphis to make its first recording. They were hardly the only young…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.…