Your Hump Day Hiatus arrives

The monde certainly is beau, and this videocation proves it. Please enjoy it in all its full-screen splendor.

Life ain’t always beautiful

The man who sings this song knows that maxim better than most. If you know anything about the life of Gary Allen, well, it hasn’t always been beautiful for him. Far from it. This song comes from his “heart-wrenchingly personal” Tough All Over album, released not long after his wife, Angela Herzberg, committed suicide, a death blamed on depression and …

On Thursdays we’re in tune

Music soothes the savage beast, or so they say. Other people say medicine heals the body; music heals the soul. (Kia, it should be noted, repairs the Soul when necessary.) Still other people say cobblers sometimes replace the sole. We believe they’re all right. But every minute I spend discussing this, an additional 3 million people watch today’s weekly music …