Monday, April 15, 2024
Musical Tax Day with Joe Bonamassa
Monday, December 18, 2023
Musical Monday with the Pogues
A Fairytale of New York (1987)
Starring: The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, Kristy McColl, and Matt Dillon
Director: Peter Dougherty
Monday, December 11, 2023
Musical Monday with Bing Crosby
Straight from 1942, we have Bing and a babe looking forward to Christmas!
Monday, December 4, 2023
Musical Monday with Matt Wheeler
Matt Wheeler is a Pennsylvania-based musician and singer who amuses himself (and entertains us) by posting videos of him performing aucoustic cover songs. He's here to help get the Christmas Season off to a good start with a medley of Christmas songs which includes one of my favorites, "We Three Kings".
Monday, October 16, 2023
Musical Monday in the Twilight Zone
As Halloween draws nearer, we bring you a nifty cover from that strange dimension, the Twilight Zone!
"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring is a favorite in these parts (and this isn't the first cover of that fabulous 1980s tune that's been featured here), and while we can quibble with some of vocal presentations here, the video is just about perfect and John Cunningham & Crew give us an EXCELLENT version!
Monday, October 9, 2023
Musical Monday with The Police
Well... sort of. It's classic, creepy stalker song from the Police in a honky-tonk style via the fine folks at There--I Ruined It. Enjoy!
Monday, October 2, 2023
Musical Monday with Robbie Williams
Monday, September 25, 2023
Musical Monday with Tove Styrke
Monday, September 18, 2023
Musical Monday with Zeinapur
Zeinapur is a musical duo that delivers pop music with an alternative edge and an almost operatic quality at times. And then there's the excellent guitar work. In this video for their 2021 single "Miracle", they also demonstrate this blog's unifying theme.
Monday, September 4, 2023
Musical Monday with Polyphia
Starring: Tim Henson, Scott LePage, Clay Gober, and Clay Aeschliman
Monday, August 28, 2023
Things You Should Know (from your friends at Shades of Gray)
Because we care about the safety of our readers, we are beginning a new series of informative posts.
Monday, August 14, 2023
Musical Monday with Tom Jones
Monday, August 7, 2023
Musical Monday with Brenda Lee
On this Monday, we present a song in honor of those being celebrated on August 10, International Prisoner Remembrance Day. Maybe if some of them found in jails and prisons here in the U.S. felt sentiments along the lines of those expressed by Brenda Lee in this week's offering, there would be fewer of them locked up and less repeat offenders.
Monday, July 31, 2023
Musical Monday with Bond Street
Monday, July 24, 2023
Musical Monday with Bamble B.
In my opinion, Mike Oldfield is one of greatest composers and musicians of the late 20th Century. He has yet to get the full credit and recognition he is due, but that will come some day, I hope.
Crime of Passion (2000)
Starring: Marta Randon
Monday, July 17, 2023
Musical Monday with Leo Moracchioli
Monday, July 10, 2023
Musical Monday with the Yorkshire Kitchen Recordings
Puppets. Shaggy puppets. Singing puppets. It's a something quirky to get the final work-week of June 2023 off to a great start! (It's actually a great cover of Tom Wait's "How's It Gonna End"... you might even find yourself thinking it's better than the original!)
Monday, July 3, 2023
Musical Monday with Albie Day
Albie Day is a singer, songwriter, and marathon runner who has posted a host of great cover tunes (and some originals) to his YouTube channel. Here's a hilarious sample of his work -- a cover of Reel Big Fish's "Everyone's an Asshole". Like all good cover tunes, Day has made the song his own, turning it from ska to folk rock.
This is the first of five great cover tunes that we'll be bringing out on Musical Mondays throughout July.
Monday, June 19, 2023
Musical Monday with Incubus
Monday, June 12, 2023
Musical Monday with Desperate Journalist
While doing a web-search for something completely unrelated, I discovered the existence of Desperate Journalist, a four-member band performing a style of music I thought had faded away with the 1990s! I thought of it as "jangly guitar rock" or "alternative rock", but, apparently, this sub-genre of pop/rock music is properly known as "post-punk" (for reasons that aren't immediately apparent to me, and that I am presently feeling too lazy to research).