Arts and Entertainment – Page 84

Song of the Day 4/18: George Thorogood and the Destroyers, “I Drink Alone”

By Alby April 18, 20231 Comment

Get-well wishes go out to homeboy George Thorogood, who announced the cancellation of the first month of his 50th-anniversary tour due to "a very serious medical condition that will require…

Song of the Day 4/17: The Beatles, “Tomorrow Never Knows”

By Alby April 17, 20231 Comment

The Dominion-Fox lawsuit has been postponed until tomorrow. Will it even happen, or will the parties reach a settlement first? As Ringo Starr once put it, tomorrow never knows, an…

Song of the Day 4/14: Crash Test Dummies, “At My Funeral”

By Alby April 14, 2023

For a friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RBtabpXjZE

Song of the Day 4/13: Eric Clapton, “Let It Rain”

By Alby April 13, 2023

Fort Lauderdale got two feet of rain in about 6 hours yesterday, so I think this should be the city's new tourism song/slogan. Eric Clapton included this now-classic track on…

Song of the Day 4/12: Manic Street Preachers, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”

By Alby April 12, 2023

Guest post by Nathan Arizona In times like these, you’d think there’d be more protest songs with lyrics about shooting fascists. You’d expect more songs with titles like “If You…

Song of the Day 4/11: Bob Dylan, “When I Paint My Masterpiece”

By Alby April 11, 20234 Comments

This song ran through my head after a visit to the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Dutch master was only 43 when he died in 1675 in…

Song of the Day 4/10: The Turtles, “Outside Chance”

By Alby April 10, 2023

Donald Trump has always skated beyond the law's reach, and this has always been his motto: You don't stand an outside chance, but you can try. They seem to be…

Song of the Day 4/9: The Swan Silvertones, “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep”

By Alby April 9, 20231 Comment

The Swan Silvertones were one of the seminal gospel groups of the 1940s and '50s. "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" dates from antebellum times, when slaves sang spirituals with coded…

Song of the Day 4/7: Nathalie Merchant, “Tower of Babel”

By Alby April 7, 20231 Comment

With apologies to El Somnambulo, who's in charge of new music here, Natalie Merchant is releasing a new album, "Keep Your Courage," next week, her first in nine years. The…

Song of the Day 4/6: The Buckinghams, “Don’t You Care”

By Alby April 6, 20232 Comments

No crowd of supporters appeared in New York for Donald Trump's arraignment. Television networks cut away from his whiny speech afterwards before he finished. People were leaving his Waco rally…

Song of the Day 4/5: Matthew Sweet, “Girlfriend”

By Alby April 5, 20239 Comments

Human-Shar Pei hybrid Rupert Murdoch, age 92, got engaged on St. Patrick's Day to the woman who would have been his fifth wife. The timing didn't bring him the luck…

Song of the Day 4/4: Randy Rainbow, “Grumpy Trumpy Felon From Jamaica in Queens”

By Alby April 4, 20232 Comments

There was no way Trump was going to get indicted without Randy Rainbow having something to sing about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ues8ycOxXKM

Song of the Day 4/3: Graham Parker, “You’ve Got to Be Kidding”

By Alby April 3, 20231 Comment

Graham Parker wrote a lot of songs with dismissive phrases for titles, which is what happens when you're a misanthrope. For some reason, I think of all of them as…