Arts and Entertainment – Page 65

Song of the Day 1/22: Tom Petty, “I Won’t Back Down”

By Alby January 22, 20241 Comment

Ron DeSantis said he'd never back down, but he didn't say he wouldn't back away, so that's just what he's done. He left the presidential race with a quote he…

Song of the Day 1/20: The Shangri-Las, “Leader of the Pack”

By Alby January 20, 20245 Comments

Mary Weiss, lead singer for the '60s girl group the Shangri-Las, died recently at age 75. The group had a strong chart run in 1964 and '65, including this No.…

Song of the Day 1/19: The Honeycombs, “Have I the Right?”

By Alby January 19, 20241 Comment

Donald Trump apparently has never been a music fan. He's never seen going to concerts, and we don't hear about his Spotify playlists – a far cry from the days…

Song of the Day 1/18: The Bee Gees, “Words”

By Alby January 18, 20242 Comments

Every MAGA accusation is a confession – why do you think they keep talking about mental health when we bring up gun violence? – which is why Fux News et…

Song of the Day 1/17: Phish, “Farmhouse”

By Alby January 17, 20243 Comments

The venerable jam band Phish is coming to the Woodlands, the Dover Downs-adjacent campground that hosted the Firefly festival for a decade, for a four-day festival in August. Travel package…

Song of the Day 1/16: Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Waiting in Vain”

By Alby January 16, 20241 Comment

H/t to Anon, who noted that we will wait in vain for any of the Republicans who are opposing Donald Trump to point out that he wants to be a…

Song of the Day 1/15: Elvis Presley, “If I Can Dream”

By Alby January 15, 2024

Many songs have been written in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., all of them heartfelt, many of them touching. But no other calls forth King's message with the passion…

Song of the Day 1/14: John Lennon, “Instant Karma!”

By Alby January 14, 2024

Remember Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News blowhard? You probably haven't thought about him in a long time – Fox News 86'd him back in 2017 over his long history of…

Song of the Day 1/12: The J.B.’s, “Pass the Peas”

By Alby January 12, 20241 Comment

Okay, I get why Southern states want to starve their schoolchildren over the summer months, when school's out of session and they can't get free lunch. Those states are governed…

Song of the Day 1/11: Billy Pilgrim, “Insomniac”

By Alby January 11, 2024

Folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim formed in Atlanta in the early '90s, when R.E.M. was breaking indie music into the mainstream. Because both Kristian Bush and Andrew Hyra wrote songs, played…

Song of the Day 1/10: Wheatus, “Teenage Dirtbag”

By Alby January 10, 20242 Comments

Wheatus is a one-hit wonder whose big hit is more than 20 years old, but it's become a classic because it's been revived so many times over the years. Brendan…

Song of the Day 1/8: Fountains of Wayne, “Hey Julie”

By Alby January 8, 2024

For a while there, when the pandemic forced most people to work from home and most of the work got done anyway, Americans looked forward to a future free of…

Song of the Day 1/7: Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”

By Alby January 7, 20242 Comments

I still can't get over Trump's bonkers statement about magnets, to wit: "Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it…