[ purchase Product ] Robin Lumley and John Giblin were members of Brand X at various times.   I’ve written before about Brand X , a jazz-ro...

[ purchase The Quarrymen Live in Penny Lane, featuring Chas Newby on bass and vocal ] You’re a teenage (left-handed) bass player, and a f...

  As my co-blogger and friend Jordan noted: SMM returns at least briefly for remembrances of music people who passed on in 2023. Sadly, ther...

[ purchase Bachman-Turner Overdrive II ] Hey, Star Maker Machine fans, we’re temporarily back.   At least as long as some of our writers ...

Here’s the third and final part of my tribute to some of the surprisingly large number of drummers we lost in 2022 (and I'm not sure wha...

Another of my personal mighty fell at the top end of the year, one of those pillars of my teenaged infatuation with rock and prog, namely Mr...

We continue featuring drummers who died in 2022. Part I featured Jet Black (Brian Duffy), Jerry Allison, and Dino Danelli, and you can read...