Arts and Entertainment

Christine McVie, who died Wednesday at age 79, is being remembered as a pop singer and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac. Rightly so -- several of the band's best-known tunes were…

By request of Mediawatch, in honor of El Somnambulo's dive into New Castle County Council's developer-funded political machine. Stevie Wonder had Top 10 hits throughout the '60s, but this 1970…

Fox News is running out of things to freak out about. When Joe Biden put up the White House Christmas tree extra early, their "War on Christmas" standby failed, so…

"Presence of the Lord," Eric Clapton's contribution to Blind Faith's only album in 1969, was his first outing as a lyricist. Its message is personal, but Steve Winwood delivers it…

Regular readers know I consider Dr. Feelgood one of the most important British bands of the 1970s. The creative force behind the punk pioneers, guitarist Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson)…

Rather than list all the things to be thankful for, I'm going to go Karl Wallinger's route and simply thank the world. Wallinger was World Party for most of its…

Fans of Irish rockers Thin Lizzy all have the same lament: If you went by classic rock radio you'd think the band only released three songs. Their breakthrough hit, at…

Garage rock wasn't called that when bands were actually playing it in the mid-'60s -- the name came a few years later, when the "Nuggets" collection was released in 1972…

This song won a Grammy for the Temptations in 1972 and is considered one of their greatest tracks. But it was first recorded and released earlier that year by a…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona The composer Arthur Jackson had two sheds, and a nickname to match. But he was furious when his interviewer kept calling him Two Sheds and…

With feral pet pigs running wild in Delaware, it seems like the right time for Roger Waters' bitter anti-capitalist prog-blues workout. The sort of pigs he was writing about in…

The Philly Pops, founded in 1979, announced that it's throwing in the towel after this season's Christmas concerts. Cultural institutions have been in decline for years, but the Covid pandemic…