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Maybe I should see them tonight ? Everything I've heard is good. •   I recently noted Ross Douthat's attempt to portray the ...

I had the great pleasure and privilege to see Harold Prince's stripped-down version of  Candide on Broadway in 1974 and still  a...

Sort of the theme song here at alicublog. •    It's like Jonah Goldberg is actually trying to live down to the role in intellec...

My favorite version. ( Explanation .) •    Maybe you saw that story about a drone with a gun on it, and maybe you didn't think that...

A very nice Richard Thompson tune and a valuable reminder that Sting is a twat. •    Charles C.W. Cooke's latest  at National Rev...

My favorite AC/DC tune is "Back in Business," but there's no good video of it. This'll do, though. What's your ...

This old tune jumped into my head today for some reason.   •   So far, the most delicious reaction is from the American Life League : ...

Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, and Billy Ficca. The right kind of shrill. •    Two days after Charleston, National Review 's The Cor...

I've been listening to a mess of Uncle Dave Macon lately. I know you guys are into politics, so here's one  where Uncle Dave ...

I know I've posted this before but I'm in a fuck-everything sort of mood and nothing but the Pride of Syracuse will do. •    Berni...

Mama had this record. Whole thing's great, but I particularly like the part with the Leslie'd organ and what I believe is cho...

•     You may remember him for his later, lush 'n' luxe blues stuff, and that's all very fine. I love B.B. King, now passed ,...

Friday I got Monday on my mind. •    Last summer Michael Webster took some photos at Coney Island and, as is usual with him, saw the s...

Good day for this. Never a bad one, really. •    At National Review , Mona Charen snarls in "Racial Milestones and a Corrupt Pres...

Thanks to Chuck Gilligan I finally saw the Mountain Goats this week. Liked it all, but this song really jumped up and grabbed my throat...

One of the funniest things by two of the funniest people of all time. •    It is axiomatic that Jonah Goldberg can make anything worse,...