Arts and Entertainment – Page 151

Song of the Day 6/28: Neil Young, “White Line”

By Alby June 28, 20203 Comments

Neil Young's deep vault of unreleased material is legendary, but one important tranche is unreleased no longer: This week Young finally released his 1975 LP "Homegrown" in its entirety. Several…

Song of the Day, 6/27: Spinal Tap, “Hell Hole”

By Alby June 27, 20201 Comment

With the European Union's decision to ban American tourists, it's pretty clear we're living in a hellhole, so maybe we should adopt this as our new national anthem. Most people…

Song of the Day 6/26: Michael Stipe and Aaron Dessner, “No Time for Love”

By Alby June 26, 20201 Comment

I'm so old I can remember when record companies would have made a big deal about a collaboration between Michael Stipe, late of R.E.M., and Big Red Machine, itself a…

Song of the Day 6/25: Old Crow Medicine Show, “Quarantined”

By Alby June 25, 20201 Comment

Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor released this song a month ago, when armed lamebrains were clamoring for an end to self-isolation and asserting their right to a haircut.…

Song of the Day 6/23: The Ramones, “Somebody Put Something in My Drink”

By Alby June 23, 2020

Hey, kids, 'memba that story last week about the three New York cops who got "poisoned" at Shake Shack? Turns out it wasn't just embellished, it was made up out…

Song of the Day 6/22: Johnniqua Charles, “Lose Yo Job”

By Alby June 22, 2020

The Black Lives Matter protests have a new theme song, thanks to Johnniqua Charles. When a security guard detained her outside a strip club back in February, the 27-year-old Charles…

Song of the Day 6/21: Broadway cast of Hamilton, “The Room Where It Happens”

By Alby June 21, 20204 Comments

The title John Bolton chose for his White House tell-all turns out to be ironic. Bolton won a Pyrrhic victory Saturday when a court ruled "The Room Where It Happened"…

Song of the Day 6/20: Eric Clapton, “Tulsa Time”

By Alby June 20, 2020

Donald Trump, flailing about for a way to stop his losing streak, takes his circus to Tulsa tonight, and I swear the press hasn't slavered for blood this intently since…

Song of the Day 6/19: Aretha Franklin, “Never Gonna Break My Faith”

By Alby June 19, 20201 Comment

This song, originally performed with Mary J. Blige, won Aretha Franklin the last of her 18 Grammy Awards in 2006. To celebrate Juneteenth this year, Sony released a version of…

Song of the Day 6/18: The Persuasions, “Electric Aunt Jemima”

By Alby June 18, 20201 Comment

Unless you're a right-winger, you probably haven't thought about Aunt Jemima in years, given that she's not a real person and all. But when Quaker Oats announced they were retiring…

Song of the Day 6/16: Public Enemy, “Fight the Power”

By Alby June 16, 20202 Comments

Chuck D issued this call to action just over 30 years ago. The track debuted as the theme song to Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" in 1989, the year…

Song of the Day 6/14: The Offspring, “Come Out and Play”

By Alby June 14, 2020

More commonly known as "Keep 'Em Separated," this tune became a rock radio classic soon after its 1994 release. Dexter Holland, lead singer of the LA-based punk-pop group, wrote it…

Song of the Day 6/13: The Clash, “Know Your Rights”

By Alby June 13, 2020

You have three of them. The lead single from 1982's "Combat Rock" LP remains as pertinent as when it was written. Mister, we could use a man like Joe Strummer…