Arts and Entertainment

El Somnambulo's fave tunes for October includes a psychedelic cover of this 1963 girl-group nugget by the Jaynetts, who are considered a one-hit wonder but didn't really exist at all.…

There were more than 14 great tunes that I heard this month.  However, I make the rules, and I must abide by the rules.  So the great tunes that won't…

Yes, you've heard it a million times. Everybody's heard it a million times, and lots of them know some of the lines, even if they're too young to know that…

This year saw an odd trend in the agritainment business: Reba McEntire-themed corn mazes. Corn mazes are a seasonal money-maker for small farmers who market the farm along with its…

You can tell the '90s are having their day in the nostalgia-industrial complex – there's a new documentary out about Milli Vanilli, the dance-pop duo who had to give up…

So I was at a wedding a couple of weekends ago and – old fogey alert! – when the music started it was like a rave had broken out. The…

I don't want to make a big thing of it, but Joe Biden is the same age as Keith Richards, and nobody is telling the venerable guitarist to hang it…

For Andrew C, by request. The B-52s were scheduled to play a White House state dinner tonight but had their performance called off at the last minute. Jill Biden was…

Theme song for the endless search for a Speaker of the House. Tommy Conwell ruled the bar band circuit in Philadelphia and Delaware for a little while back in the…

Will Smith's spoof of the Freddy Krueger movies fits the Halloween season, but he's living a more substantial nightmare these days, what with all the publicity his apparently estranged wife…

For Gaza. Jimmy Cliff released this song as a single in 1972, the same year he starred in "The Harder They Come," the movie and soundtrack that made Jamaican music…

I thought Jan. 6, 2021, made clear what the MAGA Republicans wanted to do to Congress, so the current House fire is no great surprise. I blame voters for handing…

Americans might be forgiven for thinking British rock and roll began with the Beatles. The Merseybeat sound they represented seemed to grow from meager roots – skiffle, the craze that…