It seems the Trump administration isn't alone in pissing off musicians by using their music without asking for permission. The ironically named Israeli Defense Forces set social media video of…
If you had asked me whether this story was real or something that ran in the Onion, I'd have guessed the Onion, but no, it's real. It seems Donald Trump…
With talk of committing ground troops to Trump's War on Iran, it would be a good time to break out this iconic Vietnam-era protest song, even if Joseph Allen "Country…
Hey, Millennials, wanna feel old? The classic John Hughes Brat Pack movie, "Pretty in Pink," was the No. 1 box office film 40 years ago last week. You're welcome. As…
Guest post by Nathan Arizona In 1953 a young doo-wop group entered Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio in Memphis to make its first recording. They were hardly the only young…
Among their many desperate justifications for starting a war on Iran, Trump and Marco Rubio have slipped in the one that's almost certainly true: Netanyahu made them do it. "We…
The downing of three American combat jets in the early hours of the War on Iran were blamed on friendly fire from Kuwaiti air defenses. It now appears that it…
Lots of artists have protested the use of their music by the Trump regime, but the British band Radiohead put their objection more bluntly than most after "Let Down," a…
Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who died last week at age 86, had two separate eras of chart-topping success in his nearly seven-decade career. Yet his name is probably unfamiliar to anyone…
H/t Al Jackson, who sent me the link to the most recent AI creation of DesertFlyingFox, the creator behind the Greenland Defense Front video. This time around the anti-American forces…
Dedicated to El Somnambulo, for reasons he'll understand. Johnny Nash started singing as a teenager in Houston and released his debut single in 1956. In the first 16 years of…
Yes, I'm posting this a day early. Why? Loads of new tunes--and new discoveries, this month. I just couldn't wait. So sue me. Perhaps the greatest musical month of ALL…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of nominees to the usual criticisms, mainly that half of the acts have little if any connection to the genre…