Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 10/15: The Doobie Brothers, “Listen to the Music”
I don’t know who’s DJing Donald Trump’s rallies, but after seeing the partial playlist from yesterday’s question-and-answer session turned listening party, I think he needs some new material. “Ave Maria” and “YMCA” in the same set? Andrea Bocelli and James Brown? Apparently Trump likes to play DJ at Mar-a-Lago, and these are among his favorite […]
Song of the Day 10/14: Captain Beyond, “Sufficiently Breathless”
Supergroups have been a thing in rock since 1966, when Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker ditched their former bands to form Cream, named because each was the cream of the crop on his instrument. The trend picked up steam late in the decade after Crosby, Stills and Nash (and later Young) soared up […]
Song of the Day 10/11: Renaissance, “Northern Lights”
Thanks to an unusually strong solar flare, the aurora borealis made a rare appearance over Delaware last night. Fittingly, I suppose, “Northern Lights” was a rarity, too. It was the only track by British rock band Renaissance to reach the singles charts, and that was only in their native UK – a bit ironic, considering […]
Song of the Day 10/10: Parliament, “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)”
Hurricane Milton didn’t do as much damage as it might have, but you’re probably seen the photos of St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field. The storm did, indeed, tear the roof off the sucker. I can never keep straight which band name any particular George Clinton song was released under; this one was on 1975’s “Mothership Connection,” […]
Song of the Day 10/9: Johnny Neel, “Talking About People”
Wilmington native Johnny Neel, who died this week at age 70, was legendary in Nashville. Best known to the broader public for his stint with the Allman Brothers Band, he made his mark in Music City as a songwriter, session musician, charismatic performer – and as the subject of countless stories of his carrying on […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024
Hurricane Milton will dominate news coverage today. Too bad none of the precipitation will make it up north; all of Delaware is either “abnormally dry” or in “moderate drought,” and might not get significant rainfall until next month. A teenager in Gaza, Hassan Hamad, kept filming the destruction caused by the Israeli assault and posting […]
Song of the Day 10/8: Climax Blues Band, “Couldn’t Get It Right”
Like the presenter of this Top of the Pops video, I thought these guys were Americans, but it turns out they just wanted to sound like they were. They weren’t a one-hit wonder, but “Couldn’t Get It Right” was their only Top 10 single in the U.S., and it it took them nearly a decade […]
Song of the Day 10/6: Pink Floyd, “See Emily Play”
Most rock fans are aware that Roger Waters of Pink Floyd has gone down the rabbit hole of right-wing politics. It appears it has cost him some major coin. Pink Floyd announced last week that it sold its music catalog to Sony for $400 million, about 80% of what they were asking before “Roger Waters” […]
Song of the Day 10/4: The Alan Parsons Project, “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You”
The more I hear from JD Vance, the more I think of this 1977 song. Though it was just a modest hit, No. 36 on the Hot 100, it helped push the band’s second LP, “I Robot,” into the Top 10, and it seems more apt today than ever. So does the concept album it […]
Song of the Day 10/3: Tears for Fears, “Sowing the Seeds of Love”
I’ve heard this No. 2 hit from 1989 in random places a couple of times lately, and though “Sowing the Seeds of Love” wears its psychedelic-era Beatles influences like a paisley-pattern Nehru jacket, its preposterous optimism does lift the spirits in these Trump-tainted times. Maybe that’s not an accident. Roland Olazabel wrote this in the […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: September, 2024
Yet another cool band out of Philly. Power pop fans, check this one out: How’s this for a last-minute unexpected surprise?: Kind-of a Sonic Youth feel. ”Cept they really ARE youthful: Jonatan Leandoer 96: Voice like Ryan Adams, attitude like early Mac Demarco (‘Viceroy’), with a soupcon of Freedy Johnston. Nathan’s favorite?: “I dropped all […]
Song of the Day 9/30: Kris Kristofferson, “The Law Is for Protection of the People”
If Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at 88, had been invented by a novelist, the author would be accused of engaging in magical realism. C’mon, a Rhodes Scholar helicopter pilot turned country music star turned Hollywood actor with a string of famous wives and paramours – who’s buying that a real person could do all […]
Song of the Day 9/28: Stevie Nicks, “The Lighthouse”
Stevie Nicks has never been a topical songwriter. Almost all her songs are personal and emotional, which makes the single she released Friday, her first new song in years, all the more powerful. It’s plenty emotional, but it’s a straight-up protest song, an outright feminist battle cry. [E]arly one morning I was watching the news […]
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