War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In another quick, hard rebuke, Radiohead has told DHS to stop using their song, “Let Down,” in pro-ICE video ads, because it sucks, and besides, there’s no way in shit the band would have given the OK to use it. Via Variety this morning: Radiohead has issued a joint band statement decrying the use of the…
Bright, late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — reportedly 71 degrees; I was just outside (in the small, apartment-sized backyard doing a bowl) and the air felt barely-chilled by quiet wisps of a near-about warmish breeze. Preview maybe of a coming scorching-ass summer. Yet for the right now and being a bit selfish, it’s…
Some music to whip us into shape here this mid-day Friday in California’s Central Valley — hot as shit outside right now with deep, clear sunshine coupled with a 90-degree temp on the way to a reported high of 105 coming later in the afternoon. First writing in a couple of months — maybe I’ll…
Sunny and warm this mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley — weather the rain tomorrow today. In place of anything worthwhile, some music pertinent to the shitty-like nowadays. Just remember, it’s not over ’til the fat lady sings! First, of course, is what’s happening every fucking day except not necessarily on my fucking doorstep:…
Thick-colorless, gloomy-rainy skies bathed in a downer-gray, ash-flavored ambiance this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. A few words right up front guaranteed to immediately bring you right down. However, young Neil begs to differ: One of my favorite go-to-sad-fun songs for now going on 50 years. Snarky-righteous Young jokes in his intro on…
Here on a bright Sunday evening in California’s Central Valley, a musical approach to one of the more-important matters of our nowadays: abortion. And yet, too, with a new voice from an ancient, iconic wonder, Stevie Nicks. Nicks has been a crush of mine for near-about 50 years. In the 1970s, however, she had to…
Instead of shit flying, let’s play some sounds this just-pass-the-noon hour Sunday — the following tunes are not in any particular order of likeability or importance, just an old-fashioned musical flashback list to a better-byte of time. And to start off, a couple from Annie Lennox, first with longtime Eurythmics partner Dave Stewart with an…
In a degression in these hardscrabble times, we present a musical respite from the horrors of modern life with some tunes, hopefully, which will perk the summer heat level and make it livable. Here just short of the noon hour we’re already close to triple digits and will enter a hellscape weather pattern the next…
Today 50 years ago was also a Wednesday. In those days I was a senior at the University of Florida and was less than a month away from graduating. Although I had the GI Bill for financial assistance, during the last two years of college I worked part-time at the Sears, Roebuck store there in…
One of the greatest guitar pickers ever, Dickey Betts, has died. He was 80. And not only notable in music: Beyond reality when one band would have two, TWO, most-gifted guitarists — Betts and Duane Allman. From today’s The New York Times obit: “Duane and I had an understanding, like an old soul kind of…
