Tonight Wade Hemsworth complains – and with good reason – about those vexatious, mad-making little critters in the woods of north On-tar-i-o-i-o: here’s The Blackfly Song. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

In our Saturday night long weekend musical amusement, bluegrass legends Flatt & Scruggs cover Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone. No, really. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

When all the skies are grey and it’s a rainy day, think of the birdies in spring, and when you’re up to your neck in hot water, Be Like The Kettle and Sing. Thanks for the song, Vera. The comments…

Tonight we are transported by the magic of music to a warm Polynesian paradise, as we listen to Spike Jones and his City Slickers perform Hawaiian War Chant. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

There’ll be no time for complainin’ at the Alabama Barbecue. The comments are open for your Reader Tips….

Tonight, Robbie Fulks welcomes you to the town of Rock Bottom, Pop. 1. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

Tonight, the late Frankie Vaughan is tormented by The Kaye Sisters, who tell him "You Gotta Have Something in the Bank, Frank." He seems to be taking it okay. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

In tonight’s Tips music, from the 1960 album Crazy Times, Gene Vincent asks a rhetorical question that most of us have muttered under our breath on more than one occasion: Why Don’t You People Learn To Drive?. The comments are…

In tonight’s musical diversion en route to the Tips, SoCal band Los Lobos jangle their Chicano limbs near that great big rumbling fault line to harness those Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

Barack Obama: We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance — algae. You’ve got a bunch of algae out here, right? If we can figure out how…

In tonight’s Tips video, a short excerpt from the BBC-distributed documentary Law and Disorder in Johannesburg, British broadcaster Louis Theroux follows pair of ballsy "bad boys", unofficial private policemen who are hired to take back dilapidated high-rise buildings, formerly middle-class…

PEI singer-songwriter Gene MacLellan wrote the 1971 pop-gospel hit Put Your Hand in The Hand, among many other songs, but he is most famous as the composer of Anne Murray’s international #1 hit Snowbird. The uptempo arrangement of Murray’s radio-friend…

In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, workaday Danes on their morning commute are transported for a few moments from quotidian reality into a more wakeful realm of spirit. What a great way to start the day. h/t Snaphanen…

Please remove all loose clothing and jewelry, including ties, scarves, and neck chains, as you lean over to take a closer look at The Machine That Eats Everything. h/t The comments are open for your Reader Tips….

Music and politics generally make for a poor mix, but blogger Lexington Green of Chicago Boyz may have found the perfect theme music for Obama’s campaign kickoff rallies, which the New York Times’ Mark Landler recently described as "having the…

Whicker’s World was a hugely popular documentary TV show in Britain (so popular that the onscreen ubiquity of host Alan Whicker would later be parodied by the Python gang) that ran for almost 30 years starting in the late fifties….

In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, from the 1935 MGM film A Night At the Opera, Chico and Harpo Marx – the uncles you wish you had – provide a little light musical entertainment. The comments are open,…

In 1985 LA-based songwriter/composer Randy Newman discovered that he was seemingly the only singer/celebrity on earth who hadn’t been invited to the We Are The World recording session. Miffed by the snub, (or so his wry anecdote goes), he endeavoured…

Tonight, via the technological miracle of Scopitone, we enjoy the mellow, family-friendly French sounds of Le Groupe J.M.S., as they reprise for the cameras their 1960 release Papa Aime Maman. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips….

Everyone has heard Elvis Presley’s 1960 version of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" but not many people realize that the song was already an older-than-oldie at the time he recorded it. Tonight, we listen to one of the earlier versions, delivered…