Jan 18 2021
Monty Python’s Flying Circus is in my DNA. The British comedy troupe that performed four seasons of their anarchic, silly television comedy show started in Britain in 1970. By 1974, my very young self was watching these shows presented in …
Jan 15 2021
Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer I think he might've been our only decent teacher Getting older makes it harder to remember we are our only saviors ----The Hold Steady, ‘Constructive Summer.’ Sixty eight years after he was born, …
Jan 12 2021
This is not your Grandpa’s Perry Mason. The original TV series with Raymond Burr and Barbra Hale ran from 1957 until 1966, and seemed to live eternally on TV in afternoon syndication. It was one of my favorite shows, …
Jan 8 2021
Robyn Hitchcock with Emma Swift Live From Sweet Home Quarantine (all requests) Part 26 Robyn said hello and mentioned he had a “stack of requests,” and launched into a “divorce” song, ‘The Devil’s Coachman,’ which was typical Robyn: sad and …
Jan 7 2021
Robyn Hitchcock with Emma Swift Live From Sweet Home Quarantine (RH songs by request) Part 30 Robyn opened the show with part 2 of the Three Directions story, getting surreal, and then really surreal. First song was ‘Unsettled’ from Globe …
Jan 7 2021
Steve Nieve, the classically trained, agile, and accomplished keyboardist, has been streaming quarantine shows from his home in France (near the English Channel) as “the Immobile Tour” (tinyurl/com.zubimmobile). His crew at home consists of Muriel Tedori, his French …
Jan 6 2021
50 years after McCartney and 40 years after McCartney II, Paul found himself in lockdown and decided to make this record “for fun,” playing all the instruments himself. This true “solo” recording follows the pattern of those previous records …
Jan 2 2021
Search Party aired its first two seasons on TBS, the third season it went to HBO Max. I have just finished binging all three seasons of this show, and it is a weird, wonderful, dark, dark comedy. The show revolves …
Jan 2 2021
Washington Irving's story Rip Van Winkle was first published in 1819. The trope of someone falling asleep/under a spell/unfrozen caveman lawyer is as old as storytelling itself, and this trope is the basis for An American Pickle. Rogen plays …
Dec 30 2020
If you are of a certain age, you remember Creem as a true rock and roll magazine. They ran from 1969 until 1993 and the magazine was a must have in my house as a kid who devoured rock and …
Dec 27 2020
When you watched MTV in 1982, there was a great video from an all girl band, The Go-Go’s. This cute, flirty video was attached to a great tune called ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ (see our Podcast on this single at …
Dec 24 2020
BUZ AND MUF PICK THRU THE 2020 LITTER Buz & Muf, the original Zub kitties, picked thru the litter for our Alert readers, separating the gems from the crap. For 2020, a litter box of a year if there ever …