Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 1/18: The Bee Gees, “Words”
Every MAGA accusation is a confession – why do you think they keep talking about mental health when we bring up gun violence? – which is why Fux News et al like to harp on Joe Biden’s mental acuity. It deflects from Donald’s. Trump has long gotten a pass because he’s been a logorrheic rambler […]
Song of the Day 1/17: Phish, “Farmhouse”
The venerable jam band Phish is coming to the Woodlands, the Dover Downs-adjacent campground that hosted the Firefly festival for a decade, for a four-day festival in August. Travel package tickets for the Mondegreen Festival go on sale tomorrow, weekend and camping passes Friday. Summer music festivals are pretty common now, and Phish was a […]
Song of the Day 1/16: Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Waiting in Vain”
H/t to Anon, who noted that we will wait in vain for any of the Republicans who are opposing Donald Trump to point out that he wants to be a dictator, I think because they’re afraid he’ll sic his slack-jawed minions on them. I can’t say I blame them. Bob Marley released the tune on […]
Song of the Day 1/15: Elvis Presley, “If I Can Dream”
Many songs have been written in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., all of them heartfelt, many of them touching. But no other calls forth King’s message with the passion and intensity Elvis Presley poured into “If I Can Dream,” the finale of what’s now known as his ’68 Comeback Special. Those who saw Baz […]
Song of the Day 1/14: John Lennon, “Instant Karma!”
Remember Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News blowhard? You probably haven’t thought about him in a long time – Fox News 86’d him back in 2017 over his long history of sexual harassment lawsuits, and he’s struggled to find an audience ever since. He’s still out there, though, and the other day he floated back into […]
Song of the Day 1/12: The J.B.’s, “Pass the Peas”
Okay, I get why Southern states want to starve their schoolchildren over the summer months, when school’s out of session and they can’t get free lunch. Those states are governed by assholes. But Vermont? WTF? Oh, that’s right, those frozen hippies elected a Republican governor. Well, you get what you vote for, maple syrup-breath. At […]
Song of the Day 1/11: Billy Pilgrim, “Insomniac”
Folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim formed in Atlanta in the early ’90s, when R.E.M. was breaking indie music into the mainstream. Because both Kristian Bush and Andrew Hyra wrote songs, played guitars and shared lead vocals, music critics dubbed them the Indigo Boys (it helped that Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls sang background vocals on […]
Song of the Day 1/10: Wheatus, “Teenage Dirtbag”
Wheatus is a one-hit wonder whose big hit is more than 20 years old, but it’s become a classic because it’s been revived so many times over the years. Brendan Brown formed the band in his hometown of Northport, Long Island, which became famous when he was a child for a Satanic murder by a […]
Song of the Day 1/8: Fountains of Wayne, “Hey Julie”
For a while there, when the pandemic forced most people to work from home and most of the work got done anyway, Americans looked forward to a future free of commuting to offices. Problem was, without workers in an office, middle managers had nothing to do, and it showed. So over the past year those […]
Song of the Day 1/7: Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”
I still can’t get over Trump’s bonkers statement about magnets, to wit: “Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.” So he knows even less about magnets than he thinks he does. Turns out Trump has […]
Song of the Day 1/6: Lynyrd Skynyrd, “That Smell”
Given the media’s eight-year obsession with Donald Trump, you would think the fact that he’s odiferous would have emerged before now. A person of my close acquaintance who interviewed him several times back in the ’90s, when he was having an affair with Marla Maples and doing his best to pretend he wasn’t, said at […]
Song of the Day 1/4: Coven, “One Tin Soldier”
Unless you grew up in the ’60s, it’s hard to imagine how naive the Boomers were in their youth. They actually thought singing about peace could bring it about. Nowadays music venues are frequent targets for mass violence, from the Pulse nightclub to the Las Vegas country music festival to the Nova music festival in […]
Song of the Day 1/4: T Bone Burnett, “Humans From Earth”
T Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in the ’70s – and started a solo career that saw him release albums in musical styles ranging from New Wave to country. This song […]
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