alicublog

I know for a while I haven't been doing this more than weekly as a round-up for Roy Edroso Breaks It Down ( SUBSCRIBE , by the way -- w...

Have we done this one before? Hell with it, it's nice. Just a few words on David Lynch : Aside from the statements his films make, it...

Another one from the neo-soul coffee shop. I keep filing these weekly dispatches late, due to my absurdly crowded work schedule; if you come...

I could call this Friday-‘Round-the-Horn-Except-on-Monday, as I did last week , but I’m mainly here to tell you today’s Roy Edroso Breaks...

Let's have a little soothing jangle-bell rock. Yeah, it’s normally Friday ‘Round-the-Horn – but I am told on social media that the pe...

For a long time I could only find a weird remix of this, so I stopped looking.  But it's here! It’s the last month without Tubby for a w...

I'm an old crank but you know what? This is Xmas music I can get with. To paraphrase the old Chinese, we are now  Living In Interesting ...

Five, four shots, I be ready to splash. Sorry I missed you last week! Holidays are frickin' rough around here. But I pledge that if ...

I have never heard a bad Desmond Dekker record. Not gonna push it too hard here as this is only Friday 'Round-the-Horn technically --...

Never out of fashion. Another week into the over-the-cliff phase of the death of democracy! The appointments Tubby’s trying to push through ...

What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong. Hard week to feel good about! After a campaign in which the Republican candidate d...

I'm old and I was old then too but how did I miss this? The title comes from not-yet-governor-elect  Mario Cuomo on election night 1982 ...

I love Jill Scott and this song but had never before heard this live stretch-out. Nice! It’s just barely Friday, still, but I’m coming in un...

The pride of Cabo Verde. Really barreling into the election now, as you can tell by the kind of crap rightwing papers are trying to put ov...

Heard this one at the taco place. Friday ‘Round-the-Horn come on a Saturday this week, as the Pogo peeps used to say . Well, we’re all bus...

Some ragged guy was playing this on the train. Slaps, is that still the term? Late again, Bullwinkle! And I’m busy and must be brief. I will...

We had lunch at a Turkish restaurant and much of the pleasure was in the Turkish pop playing in the bakcground. The mental disintegration of...

Hey greybeards! Sounds pretty good, huh? 2017.  Modern stuff's hard to keep up with, but nice when you catch it. I keep starting the...

Ha ha, get it. Cool tune tho. Helluva week, huh? I know, I said that last week, but it’s still true. I guess the highlight was Tubby’s wipeo...

My local coffee shop plays a lot of neo-soul. I missed ‘Round-the-Horn last week, sorry! I was on an extended Labor Day break, during whi...