Many critics consider this song, released in 1955, as the first rock 'n' roll record, and while Richard Penniman rarely got as much credit as Chuck Berry or Bill Haley,…
There's an apocryphal story about the Russian space program. The United States, according to the legend, spent millions of dollars trying to invent a ball-point pen that would work in…
Bob Dylan dropped another new song last night, this time with an announcement that it's a cut from a new album, "Rough and Rowdy Ways," set for release June 19.…
As both puck and El Somnambulo have noted, the Orange Offal in the Oval, in yet another fumbling attempt to change the subject from his staggering ineptitude, has decreed, apparently…
Donald Trump visited a factory that makes medical-grade face masks yesterday. He got lots of scolding for not wearing a mask during his tour, but I thought the more noteworthy…
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, a holiday more celebrated in El Norte than in Mejico, I give you War's tribute to one of the symbols of California's Mexican-American culture.…
With Trump grasping at every coronavirus miracle cure that crosses his diseased mind, I think it's time he looked into Dr. Nilsson's remedy. I tend to think that adding a…
Randy Newman has written a special song for these days of social distancing. This was recorded almost a month ago, but he was prescient about selfish "reopen" protesters. "It's hard…
May Day, though not celebrated in reactionary America, was declared International Workers' Day in 1889 by the Second International organization of workers' and socialist parties, which also adopted "The Internationale"…
While the novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the music world, a few musicians have caught the bug and recovered. I didn't even know folk icon Tom Rush had the…
Founders Sing entered the YouTube musical political satire genre, currently dominated by Randy Rainbow, in mid-February with a video called "The Day Democracy Died," set to the tune of "American…