Arts and Entertainment

It's hard to remember now, after decades of listening to him sing shlock, that Rod Stewart was once an artist who mattered. He could rock as raucously as the Rolling…

You learn something new every day, and what I learned the other day blew my mind. Jeff Goldblum -- yes, Jeff Goldblum the actor -- is also a jazz pianist,…

The music world is mourning the death of Mark Hollis, founder of the British band Talk Talk, best known for a string of synth-pop dance hits in the early '80s,…

You say you're confused by life in modern America? Let Mr. Randy Newman explain things for you. With the help of Mr. Mark Knopfler, he will decode the mystery of…

I promise this is the last day of Queen music, and to be honest I'm posting it not only because it's a great song, but because this video manages to…

As expected, Rami Malek won the Oscar last night for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody." More surprisingly, the show opened with the current incarnation of the band…

The Records were a British power-pop band of the late '70s-early '80s, one of the post-punk, skinny-tie, jangly-guitar outfits that carried the torch for rock 'n' roll against its deformed…

Every time I hear another attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this song pops into my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06a19-S77F4 Some people say this is the Dan's answer to John Lennon's "Imagine," (Lennon, remember,…

The star of this track is a guy who almost became a Rolling Stone. Wayne Perkins was a session guitarist out of Muscle Shoals, one of a half-dozen or so…

It's hard for those who didn't live through the '60s to appreciate how large the Beatles loomed over pop culture. Not only did their music spawn entire new genres, they…

That Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" is great, but it's so gloomy. Paul Anka, on his album of rock covers, gave it a much more upbeat, ring-a-ding-ding reading that…

Ryan Adams has found himself in a world of trouble for something rock stars used to consider one of the perks of the job: Smutting around with underage girls. The…