Saturday night’s alright for retiring. July 8 will mark the last stop on Sir Elton John’s five-year-long Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. When he waves goodbye to his Swedish fans at Stockholm’s Tele2 Arena, he will have concluded 53 years as…
MUNICH — I recently had the pleasure of visiting this German city for a weekend of music, museums, and multiple servings of beer and sausage. My first stop was Münchner Stubn (Bayerstrasse 35). This eatery is immediately across from the…
America is plagued by inflation and headed, perhaps, for economic collapse. Illegals flood across our border. We’re funding a European conflict that could turn into World War III. Our dubious 2020 election saddled us with an incomparably incorrupt, hollow shell…
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the induction of Rage Against the Machine, a band known as much for its politics as its music, on Wednesday. The group affirmed that description in its statement embracing its induction. It…
Jerry Lee Lewis died on Oct. 28, 2022. He had not charted a hit song for many years. His trademark furious movements were distant memories. His voice had grown scratchier. His visibility had receded to an audience comprised of loyal…
LOS ANGELES — In my religion, last Sunday night was like celebrating Mass with the pope at St. Peter’s Square. I was fortunate and delighted to join some 50,000 congregants of what I call the First Church of Song at…
It can be said of the remarkable gumbo of New Orleans that not only is there no other city in America like it, there’s no other city in America even remotely like it. Something of the same can be justly…
“Most people I know, myself included, just didn’t want to have a f**king baby!” So declares a musician named Lily Allen, adding a double-exclamation upon her proclamation by hoisting both middle fingers in the air. Unlike our editors at The…
Idiots are like rabbits. When you look around, they are nowhere to be seen. But suddenly, someone sneezes, and they come out from under the bushes by the hundreds. Most people who work in the woke entertainment industry do so…
