Arts and Entertainment – Page 126

The Claudettes Coming To Arden!!

By El Somnambulo June 21, 20212 Comments

WHO, you might ask... My kind of band. First concert I've booked since the pandemic took live music away from us. Why tell you when I can show you?: And…

Song of the Day 6/21: Blue Cheer, “Summertime Blues”

By Alby June 21, 20211 Comment

The year: 1968. The place: San Francisco, home to the blues-rock hybrid that came to be known as psychedelic or acid rock. The band: Blue Cheer, named for one of…

Song of the Day 6/20: Nat King Cole, “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer”

By Alby June 20, 2021

Has there ever been a summer better suited to nostalgia than this one? After the Year Without a Summer, people are going to appreciate every little pleasure a good bit…

Song of the Day 6/18: Bowling for Soup feat. Hanson, “Where’s the Love”

By Alby June 18, 2021

How's this for postmodernism in practice: A punk-pop band popular in the '00s covers a hit by a '90s boy band, gets them to sing back-up on the single, then…

Song of the Day 6/17: Boz Scaggs, “We Were Always Sweethearts”

By Alby June 17, 20213 Comments

This one's for El Somnambulo, the biggest Boz Scaggs fan I know -- and not just of the "Silk Degrees" tunes that remain in classic-rock rotation today. This song led…

Song of the Day 6/16: Steve Miller Band, “Space Cowboy”

By Alby June 16, 20216 Comments

Jason330 posted a photo of Jeff Bezos' mighty Space Dildo the other day, which drove home the fact that we're now in the age of the space cowboys -- not…

Song of the Day 6/15: Lisa Loeb, “Stay (I MIssed You)”

By Alby June 15, 2021

Using popular hits in TV ads is nothing new, but I'm frequently surprised at the songs that turn up in commercials. This tune, for example, an inescapable hit in 1994,…

Song of the Day 6/13: The Band, “Up on Cripple Creek”

By Alby June 13, 20211 Comment

For no other reason than this video from the Ed Sullivan Show of Nov. 2, 1969, popped up on my YouTube feed. "Up on Cripple Creek" had just been released…

Song of the Day 6/10: Cab Calloway, “The Reefer Man”

By Alby June 10, 20215 Comments

With Delaware lawmakers debating a marijuana legalization bill, it seems worthwhile to remind them that cannabis wasn't always illegal, and its effects weren't considered dangerous until a wave of refugees…

Song of the Day 6/9: The Posies, “Solar Sister”

By Alby June 9, 20213 Comments

In popular memory, grunge is the rock genre that represents the '90s, but that obscures the reality -- the '90s were rock's last hurrah in large part because multiple genres…

Song of the Day 6/8: Gene Chandler, “Duke of Earl”

By Alby June 8, 20211 Comment

Americans seem fascinated with British royalty, but they don't understand much about it. Consider, for example, the "Duke of Earl." There is, of course, no such thing -- in the…

Song of the Day 6/7: Bing Crosby, “Swinging on a Star”

By Alby June 7, 2021

Does this song still turn up on children's albums? When I was a kid, back in the Pleistocene, you heard it frequently because its sarcastic lyrics encourage little ones to…

Song of the Day 6/3: Paul McCartney, “Another Day”

By Alby June 3, 20211 Comment

When the Beatles broke up in 1970, fans blamed Yoko Ono first and foremost. But the band member who took the most heat was Paul McCartney, mostly because he was…