Long Beach, California's Cold War Kids check-in at #27 in my Favorite-30 new songs of 2019, while The Police show-up in my Anniversary-30!

Greetings and welcome to Day-2 of the 31-Days of Halloween! As I mentioned yesterday, each day will feature a new song added to the YouTube & Spotify playlists. What triggers a particular song to be selected can vary from day to day? Sometimes it may be tied to an October birthday or movie release. In other cases it may just be an appropriately spooky tune for Halloween that needs to be on the list. Today our selection is birthday-related. Today we wish a Happy 67th Birthda

Hello again and welcome back to Fun-4-Friday! This is still a work-in-progress, as I'm trying to sharpen-the-focus of each of my features. Let's talk music history for this week... I mentioned in Knock Knock: New Music! back on Monday, that 2/18/1998 was the day Robert Smith of The Cure turned into a giant moth and battled a mechanical-Godzilla version of Barbra Streisand in Season One of South Park. That was Episode-12: "Mecha-Streisand." Near the end of the epsiode Kyle Br