Secret Sun Hit Parade: 77 from 1977

Continuing with my yearly playlists, we have the pivotal year of 1977. Disco and punk rock may have gotten all the headlines that year, but regular old rock and roll was still moving units...

Farewell, Prince Dionysus

 

We lost Prince and Vanity in 2016

As we observe the tenth anniversary of Prince's passing, here is the elegy I wrote for him...

Somebody Got Murdered

It seems like only yesterday, but Kurt Cobain's corpse was found thirty-two years ago today at his home in Seattle. 

Feast at Easter

 

You know, there's ten trillion songs about Christmas - most of them awful - but where's the love for Easter? You'd figure there'd be more, and not just the obligatory Peter Cottontail kind of thing.

Dave Grohl Lays the Pipe, Pays the Piper

We live in a very weird time when not only are we somehow shocked that a rock star is running around cheating on his wife, we're somehow shocked that Dave Grohl is running around cheating on his wife.

Bay City Rollers: The Dark Side of the Tartan

 

Seventies cheese doesn't get any more cheddary than the Bay City Rollers, but they also helped lay the groundwork for the Power Pop movement to come. And for that we must be thankful.