Steve Marriott of Humble Pie performs at The Miami Baseball Stadium in Miami on Feb. 2,1974. Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images. AI is going to kill us. You, me … your goldfish. Everyone and everything. But not before ruining everything, anyway. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I’ve been downplaying this AI…

Original: The Beatles photographed at St. Pancras Old Church gardens in London on July 28, 1968. Courtesy. So the Beatles are releasing their new single this week. I do know it’s 2023 and half of them are dead. I don’t care. Well, I don’t want them to be dead.…

Insert Foot’s Christmas playlist. My cat and I just put together our very first playlist of 14 essential holiday songs and it’s super exciting.  Of course, I did most of the work.   I say that because my cat, who answers to “Marlo” (he does, eventually, the third or fourth time…

Insert Foot is loving Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Beatles documentary. Phone lines and the internet burned all over the world this week, and it wasn’t people remarking how lifelike tofurkey tastes in 2021. The hubbub was about four guys playing music more than half a century ago, as well as…

Rudy Giuliani, pictured here excited to get the middle seat on Frontier Airlines. According to several polls, many of you are planning to travel for Thanksgiving. A whole lot of knowledgeable and prestigious people and groups, including the CDC, have advised against this using convincing rhetoric and an understanding…

Pete Seeger, photographed in 1964 at a BBC performance, wanted to recruited you. Last year, I opened my International Workers’ Day column by making snarky jokes about the United States not participating and instead opting to have our own Labor Day. All of which I still stand by. Well,…

Jeff Lynne’s ELO, “From Out of Nowhere.” If Jeff Lynne makes a record under the name “Jeff Lynne’s ELO” without the ELO, and the record drops more than four decades after the band’s best work, does it still make the wonderful noise of old? Not really. Is new record From Out of Nowhere still…

After last week’s expansion to 10 songs from 1970, we’re back to the traditional five. Not because there aren’t as many choices–the shortlist was 19 songs–but because I don’t trust myself to have any future restraint if I don’t. So you’re welcome, because otherwise you’re staring down the barrel of…

So you know how when I started this endeavor I set rules? Five songs per year, one song per band, qualifies in year of release, listed in chronological order? Pretty straightforward, right? For 1970 I’m breaking that first one. I didn’t realize it until this exercise but 1970 was…