Crowded House : Don’t Dream It’s Over [ purchase ]  When this theme was announced, I decided to write about the X song, “Once Over Twice...

X : The Once Over Twice [ purchase ]  I think that the impetus behind this theme is the end of the Trump Error, and one of the things that...

Eliza Gilkyson : Beauty Way [ purchase ] For the next two weeks, our theme is Blood, vaguely derived from the classic heart symbolis...

X: The Fourth of July purchase   LA Punks, country troubadours, rockabilly guitars, deeply rooted Americana rock. X had it al...

X: Fourth of July [ purchase ] Two weeks in a row of me going with the obvious choice. But, sometimes the obvious choice can be a go...

X : White Girl [ purchase ] When I graduated from high school in 1978, rock radio in New York still mostly played classic rock, even on...

X : 4th of July [ purchase ] Dave Alvin: Fourth of July [ purchase ] I've been thinking - and blogging - about fourth-generation Califor...

X: Under The Big Black Sun [ purchase ] X: White Girl [ purchase ] I have to take advantage of this week's topic to feature one of my ...

Violent Femmes: Gone Daddy Gone [ purchase ] X: White Girl [ purchase ] Slash Records was one of the main labels of the Los Angeles pun...

X: Under The Big Black Sun [ purchase ] "Smoke in one hand, looking for a drink, Drink in the other hand, Pointing out midnight....

X : Devil Doll [ purchase ] Devil Doll is from More Fun in the New World, the fourth album by the band X. Many of the songs from the 1983 pr...

X: Los Angeles [ purchase ] If I wasn't so busy this week, I could have posted a ton of other great city songs. We'll have to do t...