Arts and Entertainment

In the late '60s and into the '70s, Mt. Pleasant High School would annually book a national-level band for a concert. Fifty years ago tonight the school played host to…

Hey, it's Presidents Day, so who better to play at the party? PUSA, like virtually all '90s alt-rock bands, made a splash with its debut in 1995, then quickly faded…

The lyrics make this sound like a religious song, and in a way it is, but it didn't spring from any Christian tradition. Strawbs got together in England in 1964…

Brexit has revived talk of Scottish independence, a topic that always reminds me of this song in which Scottish twins Charlie and Craig Reid proclaimed their support for cutting ties…

Today's tune is in honor of Mike Bloomberg's policing policy which, considering this song was recorded in 1968, shows that mini-Mike wasn't an innovator but a reactionary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pGBv9Ly6A Of course,…

Ray Stevens is best known for his prodigious output of comic songs, a few of which were actually worth a chuckle. He also had a big hit with "Everything Is…

Not even Bernie Sanders goes so far as to call for redistribution of land -- it took a bunch of Canadian hayseeds from the plains of Manitoba to do that.…

I have no idea why this song popped into my head the other day, because I don't think I've heard it in years. Obscure even for a one-hit wonder, Alive…

I hate to repurpose one of my favorite songwriters, but this should be the theme song for the rest of Donald Trump's first, and with luck only, term as president.…

This one is for the Senate Republicans. Congratulations, fellas. As the chorus of this one-off collaboration goes, you played yourself. Thanks to Ice-T, that phrase was already in circulation when…

The most quietly devastating song on Randy Newman's misunderstood album "Rednecks" reveals its protagonist in a moment of drunken self-awareness and self-loathing that goes a long way to explaining his,…

There's always a lot of good music in Januarys.  Since virtually no new music comes out during December, and since artists are trying to get their new stuff to break…

Question time continues in the Senate, but this question, posed 50 years ago by Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, still hasn't been answered. This was the Moodies' second-best-selling single…