Alex Melton is a South Carolina-based multi-instrumentalist who's made a name for himself on YouTube by making genre-twisting covers – country songs done as pop-punk and vice versa are his…
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Americans might have been puzzled by a recent Philadelphia Inquirer story about what Flyers’ hockey players want to hear on the song playlists that blast…
Trump's lawyers whined that nobody will accept his real estate as collateral for the half-a-billion-dollar bond he has to post by Monday. Letitia James said Trump's assets could be seized…
For all the similarities between the music markets in the U.S. and Britain, some acts just never cross over. For every David Bowie, embraced as a taste-setter in America, there's…
Popular Irish songs might sound ancient, but many aren't very old. "The Fields of Atheny," for example, is about the potato famine, but it was written in the 1970s. "Ragland…
A theme song for the gubernatorial race. No editorial comment intended. The Ink Spots, among the country's most popular vocal groups in the 1930s and '40s, had tremendous influence on…
An old anecdote tells of the student who went to see "Hamlet" and complained, "It's just a bunch of cliches strung together." Indeed, absent the Bard, would anyone refer to…
Pi Day, so called because in American notation it looks like the first three digits of the mathematical constant (in Europe today is 14/3), is a bona fide holiday, designated…
Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado is among the 23 Republican House members who announced they would not seek reelection this year, but yesterday he went them one better: He's not…
Eric Carmen, the frontman of seminal early '70s power pop band the Raspberries, died over the weekend at age 74. He gained greater fame in the '80s after he left…
People are still talking about Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's disastrous State of the Union response, which seems to test the theory that there's no such thing as bad publicity. I…
You can discover anything on the internet, just about. That's why the online world's inability to discover the name of this song or the musicians who recorded it makes it…
Dr. Feelgood the Candy Man, better known as former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, has been demoted by the Navy from retired admiral to retired captain for running a pill…