Arts and Entertainment

With the Grammy Awards on TV tonight, here's a song nominated for song of the year, record of the year and best music video, and it deserves to win all…

Jackson Browne came of age at the dawn of the Southern California singer-songwriter boom, releasing his first album in 1972. This song, with its bouncy beat undercut by bleak, despairing…

With all the controversy over blackface this past week, I thought I'd demonstrate that minstrelsy is anything but gone. Given that it was the most popular form of live entertainment…

Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden was 27 years ago now, but this video of the show's climactic number has aged pretty well. Highlights include a typically…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54MiEJQglr4 Don't settle in for a long listen here. Like most of Tony Molina's songs, this lovely little jangle-pop melody clocks in at a brisk 1:12. The tune is one…

Don't know about you, but an unseasonably warm day in winter like today brings back fond memories of cutting school to hang out in the park -- and, therefore, Ronnie…

Spirit's biggest hit -- its only song to reach the Top 40 -- "I Got a Line on You" was released in late 1968 and hit No. 25 in early…

More great tunes, arranged alphabetically by artist, to start the year: A damn great musical month, by even my high standards.

Some musical years start slowly, with January's new songs not measuring up to those on the Best Of The Year lists. This, however, is not one of those Januarys.  Plenty…

Most people know Colin Hay from his days fronting Men at Work, the '80s New Wave band from Australia that scored a huge international hit with "Down Under." That was…

Here's something different: A female solo artist who ridicules the patriarchy and has a good time doing it. Rose, a Long Islander, started out as a country/folk artist but got…

This one's for Roger Stone, who famously has a criminal tattooed on his back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5aF_rdX9Q Most people know this tune because The Clash covered it, but the original was done…

My vote for most underrated songwriter of the rock era goes to Neil Finn, who's been composing sophisticated tunes since joining his brother Tim's band Split Enz in 1977, at…