Quality and quantity. Let a few good ones go since I didn't want this to be too unwieldy: Betcha weren't expecting this. I wasn't: Power pop doesn't suck: A great…
Power pop was, in a way, the first alternative rock. In the early '70s, a time when the heavy rock of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple was ascendant, three bands…
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If country music is leaving a poor taste in your mouth thanks to Jason Aldean’s confrontational “Try That in a Small Town” or Oliver Anthony's…
You can better understand the sentiment behind the line "hope I die before I get old" when you see what reactionaries some of rock's elder statesmen have become. Eric Clapton…
The biggest surprise about the right-wing freakout over drag queens is that they haven't yet shifted the focus to porn. If they're going to get upset over men putting women's…
The stories about all those Jan. 6 co-conspirators crying the blues about their legal bills ... as someone put it, they signed up for fucking around, not finding out. As…
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Tim Hardin and his fans had a reason to believe. He could write much-loved songs like the one with that title. “If I Were a…
All the Republicans taking part in their upcoming debate can breathe a sigh of relief now that brave Sir Donald has run away. The indignity they would have had to…
When George Lucas' "American Graffiti" hit theaters in August 1973, its September 1962 setting seemed a long time gone. The coming-of-age movie evoked a time of lost innocence, before the…
If WJBR is going to go religious, it doesn't have to leave music behind. Even leaving aside gospel music, there are lots of songs about Jesus they could play. Granted,…
If you think our Georgia has problems, check out the country straddling Europe and Asia between the Black and Caspian seas. Americans have mostly forgotten, if they ever knew, that…