Arts and Entertainment
My XPN List Of Ten Fave Cover Songs
This year, the WXPN 885 Countdown will be an all-covers countdown. This is the list I submitted to XPN. I skipped the obvious choices like Hendrix doing ‘All Along The Watchtower’ because that song hardly needs my vote. Based on lists from hosts and XPN staff, it seems pretty apparent to me that ‘Hallelujah’ by […]
Song of the Day 10/10: The Gentrys, “Keep on Dancing”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona After the Gentrys recorded what became the first part of “Keep on Dancing,” they apparently couldn’t figure out how to keep on singing. Not even the vocalist who became the celebrity wrestling manager known as the Mouth of the South. No radio station was going to play a song roughly […]
Song of the Day 10/9: Bram Tchaikovsky, “Girl of My Dreams”
Hollywood is up in arms over a new actress who literally came out of nowhere. Tilly Norwood is an AI creation that has real actors worried that they’ll soon be looking for new careers. Variety scoffs at the threat, pointing out that Tilly is the brainchild of a serial provocateur, but that’s unlikely to tamp […]
Song of the Day 10/8: Joe Cocker, “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Kristi Noem has been stamping her little feet because she was denied access to a toilet by staff at a municipal building in suburban Chicago. The folks inside had watched her armed henchmen snatch people off the street and basically told her she could just hold it. Ice Barbie followed […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025
America’s ever-credulous mainstream media quickly broadcast a supposed Trump administration effort to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers, despite a law to the contrary that Trump himself signed in 2019 (whether he remembers doing it is another matter). As the indispensable Josh Marshall points out, if reporters got off their asses instead of simply […]
Song of the Day 10/7: Townes Van Zandt, “Dead Flowers”
In compiling my list of 10 cover songs for the WXPN countdown, I’m prioritizing versions that reimagine or redefine the first release. Sometimes that means taking the lyrical element more seriously than the original artist did. Townes Van Zandt’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers” is a case in point. Mick Jagger and Keith […]
Song of the Day 10/6: Vanilla Fudge, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
Every year WXPN solicits listener opinions for a “top 885” list. This year the subject is cover songs, a topic that eliminates less than half of all recorded music from consideration. Thousands of great records have been made by johnny-come-latelies. Many are so much better than the original recording that nobody realizes they’re covers. I’m […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 6, 2025
A Trump-appointed federal judge put the kibosh on Trump’s plan to send the National Guard, any national guard, to Portland. We’ll see how long that lasts before the six SCOTUS ass-suckers overrule her. Why do they keep ruling in Trump’s favor? Because they’re a-skeered. You know what happens to judges who rule against Derp Fuhrer? […]
Song of the Day 10/4: Boy George, “The Crying Game”
Some celebrities don’t know when to shut up. Author J.K. Rowling isn’t the first billionaire superstar to destroy her reputation by airing views odious to the mainstream – hey there, Ye! – but she sure seems determined to make sure everyone knows she’s an asshole. You don’t have to be a Harry Potter fan to […]
Song of the Day 10/3: Sweet, “The Ballroom Blitz”
With the federal government shut down, everything except crucial work is supposed to stop. Apparently work on Trump’s turd of a White House ballroom qualifies as crucial, because it will continue regardless. Talk about a ballroom blitz. I suppose they want to get it finished before the Don keels over. Sweet’s ballroom blitz supposedly originated […]
Song of the Day 10/2: The Lovin’ Spoonful, “Do You Believe in Magic”
There’s been some speculation recently that Donald Trump’s “advisers” (a more accurate term would be “manipulators”) are feeding him a steady diet of fake videos to influence his “decisions” (a more accurate term would be “ragegasms”). The latest evidence: Medbeds. As Wikipedia has been forced to explain, medbeds are “a type of nonexistent medical technology […]
Song of the Day 10/1: The Guess Who, “Laughing”
Thanks to the Saudis, comedy is no longer a laughing matter. The country’s latest attempt to appear less odious is the currently running Riyadh Comedy festival, featuring a bunch of A-list American comedians, including Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and Louis CK, who were paid as much as $1 million for their performances. If […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: September 2025
A pleasingly-eclectic month. (Pleasing and eclectic to me. YMMV. Let me know.) Proof that their last one wasn’t a fluke: A Rorschach Test Song For You: What do you think?: Best Band In America? Suitably strange as well: For those of you new to Georgia Maq and perhaps the musical DNA of this blog, this […]
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