Arts and Entertainment

Back when people bought their music on CDs -- 'memba them? -- bands started to have fun with the format by including hidden tracks after the end of the listed…

If you didn't live in the Philadelphia area, you might not know this Northern Soul classic, but it was all over WIBG in the summer of '67. It also charted…

Wilco has a new album, "Ode to Joy," set for release early next month, and the band released a new video for a not-quite-new song to promote it. Band leader…

Her name is Luna Lee, and she's playing a traditional Korean stringed instrument called a gayageum. She has a whole YouTube channel devoted to her covers of classic rock songs,…

Ric Ocasek, who died in New York at age 75 over the weekend, is a good example of never giving up. The Cars weren't his first band, or his second,…

Mavis Staples can make any song sound like gospel music. This John Fogerty song was an under-appreciated deep track from CCR's 1969 "Green River" LP until Mavis recorded it for…

Eddie Money, the classic-rock hitmaker from the '70s and '80s, died yesterday in Los Angeles, age 70. Born Edward Mahoney in Brooklyn, he ditched a would-be career as a New…

Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent who was controversially outed by the Bush administration in 2003, left Washington for New Mexico a few years back and is now running for…

Nobody's heard much from Michael Avenatti lately, but I thought of him again when I was listening to FOW's "Out-of-State Plates," its collection of B-sides from 2005. In fact, the…

Green Day made its name with a pop-punk combination, starting with "Dookie" in 1994, but this simple ballad is probably Billie Joe Armstrong's most lasting contribution to popular music. He…

The Human Beinz from Youngstown, Ohio, were a late-'60s one-hit wonder thanks to this rocked-up rendition of an all-but-forgotten Isley Brothers track. Originally the Premiers, the band changed its name…

I'm treading in El Somnambulo territory here, as the LP by the country supergroup The Highwomen -- formed as a sort of "answer group" to the '80s supergroup the Highwaymen…

Gospel-soul fusion? Anything was possible back in 1970, when Pacific Gas & Electric formed in Los Angeles. The band's most notable member was guitarist Glenn Schwartz, the original guitarist for…