Arts and Entertainment

Doug Ingle, who wrote, sang and played organ on "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida," Iron Butterfly's iconic 1968 hit, died last week at age 78. Ingle was the last surviving member of the lineup…

Richard Sherman, who died last week at 95, penned the lyrics to hundreds of Disney songs from 1960 to 1973 while he and his composer brother, Robert, were employed as…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona We’ve heard a whole lot about Amy Winehouse’s troubled behavior before she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at age 27. It sounds like we…

Theme music for the heat dome over Mexico that's causing monkeys to fall dead from the trees. Black Francis wrote "Monkey Gone to Heaven" about the environment 35 years ago,…

Dabney Coleman, who died last week at 92, was best known for playing arrogant, venal characters in movies and television, especially during the '80s, when he starred in the sitcoms…

Actor Donald Glover has been busy the last several years, notably by playing Lando Calrissian in a Star Wars prequel and starring in an Amazon Prime series, a remake of…

The sad spectacle of Trump's gaggle of suckups convening outside his trial in New York – in matching outfits, no less – made me think of this tune from Disney's…

Alto saxophonist David Sanborn's music is usually categorized as smooth jazz, much to his chagrin. Sanborn, who died Sunday at age 78, released 25 albums leading his own band, incorporating…

This is a question two presidential candidates who aren't Joe Biden should be asking themselves. They could use this tune as a soundtrack. Black Francis said the song was inspired…

El Somnambulo left this one off his list of his favorite new tunes of April, maybe because he didn't get a chance to hear it – it dropped April 29.…