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Song of the Day 2/28: Aerosmith, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)”

By Alby February 28, 20235 Comments

As anyone who follows the news knows, Republicans have a hard on for drag queens -- uh, maybe I should rephrase that. Or maybe I shouldn't. Southern states must be…

Song of the Day 2/27: Albert Hammond, “It Never Rains in Southern California”

By Alby February 27, 20232 Comments

The weather in the USA has been weird lately -- 50-degree temperature swings, February tornadoes and snow in Southern California. Maybe the lyrics of this song need an update --…

Song of the Day 2/26: Iris DeMent, “Goin’ Down to Sing in Texas”

By Alby February 26, 20231 Comment

Singer-songwriter Iris DeMent isn't usually described as a folk singer, I suppose because much of her work sounds like country music, but some of her compositions are as pointed as…

Song of the Day 2/25: The Breeders, “Cannonball”

By Alby February 25, 20232 Comments

Andrew C. is right -- it's unlikely I'll ever get another chance to hang a song about a cannonball on an actual news peg, so here's his choice for the…

Song of the Day 2/24: Damien Rice, “Cannonball”

By Alby February 24, 20233 Comments

The wanderings of the Lewes Cannonball have come to a happy end. Whoever pried it loose from the Cannonball House apparently thought better of it and placed it on the…

Song of the Day 2/23: The Business, “Drinking and Driving”

By Alby February 23, 2023

Would-be politician Scott Walker, the guy who runs for office by setting up home-painted campaign signs along Delaware roads, has never come close to being elected, but his odd behavior…

Song of the Day 2/22: Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Say What!”

By Alby February 22, 20232 Comments

Marjorie Taylor Greene has caught on to how to become MAGAWorld famous -- say outrageous shit and count on the mainstream media to play it up under the category "Be…

Song of the Day 2/21: 10cc, “Art for Art’s Sake”

By Alby February 21, 20234 Comments

Is this the nightmare of every art gallery visitor? At a VIP art fair in Miami last weekend, a woman knocked over a glass sculpture by Jeff Koons, destroying it…

Song of the Day 2/20: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Mach 5”

By Alby February 20, 20231 Comment

As is traditional on Presidents Day, today's song is by the Presidents of the United States of America, the three-piece Seattle band that scored a triple-platinum debut album in the…

Song of the Day 2/19: Radiohead, “Paranoid Android”

By Alby February 19, 20232 Comments

The Media Freakout of the Week is ... drum roll, please ... no, not spy balloons, that was last week ... Chatbots! (cymbal crash) A lot of tech journalists have…

Song of the Day 2/17: Hall & Oates, “It’s Uncanny”

By Alby February 17, 20235 Comments

Not long ago I heard something I didn't think was possible -- a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates I didn't know. And I don't mean some 21st-century recording…

Song of the Day 2/16: The Kinks, “Lola”

By Alby February 16, 2023

We all know Twitter has been experiencing lots of problems since boy genius Elon Musk bought it, but this one is more funny than ominous -- though not to Dave…

Song of the Day 2/15: De La Soul, “Eye Know”

By Alby February 15, 2023

Unless you were a rap fan back in the golden days of the genre, before copyright laws reined in free-for-all sampling and the creativity it inspired, you probably don't know…