Arts and Entertainment

Yesterday's post about Jack Antonoff's solo project Bleachers included the tune he recorded with Bruce Springsteen, and I mentioned how much it sounded like one of Springsteen's late-period moody ballads.…

I heard this song on the radio the other day and, being a sucker for major-key pop song with a good hook, I looked up who did it, because I…

Yes, we take requests -- we don't always fulfill them, but we take them -- and Jason330 suggested this as the response to the UN report on climate change that…

Dennis "D.T." Thomas, alto saxophone player and founding member of Kool & the Gang, died Saturday, and while the obituaries listed the band's numerous hit records and various lifetime achievement…

The progressive-vs.-moderate dichotomy is back in the news because Bernie Sanders ally Nina Turner lost an Ohio primary to a more moderate (and more local) woman who was backed by…

I was watching the first season of "Ted Lasso," the Jason Sudeikis comedy about an American football coach who's hired to manage a British football squad. In one episode the…

Back in the days of punk rock, a lot of bands would emulate the Ramones by covering familiar songs at a breakneck tempo -- think of the Clash covering "I…

This is the story of a local cover band that became YouTube famous. I first started seeing Foxes and Fossils in my feed a year or more ago, during the…

Kids, if you haven't gotten vaccinated yet, and you don't like any of these tunes, then don't get vaccinated.  Self-selection isn't just for anti-vax mouthbreathers, it's for music hate-ahs too.…

H/t Nathan Arizona Los Lobos just dropped a new album of cover songs, "Native Sons," all by bands from Los Angeles, and not just obvious choices like the Chicano band…

Robby Steinhardt, second vocalist and violinist for the band Kansas, died last week of pancreatitis, aged 71. He wasn't the group's leader, but his violin was the most distinctive element…

Texas blues-rockers ZZ Top are undergoing their first personnel change in 51 years today because bassist and second lead vocalist Dusty Hill died in his sleep Tuesday. The band became…

It's a good time to eat a peach -- it's the height of a better-than-average peach season. It's also a good time to play "Eat a Peach," the soundtrack of…