The Harvey Girls: White Wedding [ Donate ] (This is from a free album that is downloadable on their website, and is not available for purch...

Bob Dylan : High Water [ purchase ] Recorded live in Niagara Falls on August 23, 2003, this one´s from Tell Tale Signs , the brand new insta...

Prescott Curlywolf - Think Tank [ purchase ] "Placated angst, what for? The strings that tethered me Vacated sleeves that I've worn...

Grateful Dead : Dire Wolf [ purchase ] I am a very strange example of a Grateful Dead fan. I never got to see them live. And, while I greatl...

Robert Johnson: Malted Milk [ purchase ] If you couldn’t tell, I’m having fun with this week’s theme. There are so many songs to choose fro...

Cyndi Lauper: True Colors [ Purchase ] Not posting hit songs? Sorry, but this one's also worth it. I've been a fan of Cyndi Lauper ...

Peter Gabriel : Red Rain [ purchase ] In general, we Starmakers tend not to post hit songs. I have never heard that it was a rule, but we te...

Max Stalling: Simple Girl [ purchase ] Simple girl, but that's what Max likes about her. Simple song, but that's what i like about ...

Juliana Hatfield: Dumb Fun [ purchase ] Hatfield's heavy indierock at its best: a proto-hipster anti-commericalist anthem turned out in ...

This week's guest post comes from Susan, host of the very excellent blog Optimistic Voices Matt Costa: Yellow Taxi [ purchase ] I “met”...

Possessed By Paul James - Bourgeois Blues [ purchase ] Konrad Wert (aka: Possessed By Paul James ) was raised in the Florida Everglades by a...

Patty Griffin: Silver Bell [ purchase ] Patty Griffin's ill fated Silver Bell album has been mentioned here before , but I felt the ne...

Richard Hell & The Voidoids : Blank Generation [ purchase ] My fave anthem of the ´77 punk generation, with built-in escape route. ...

The image above is “a zombie in a coco shell”, ie, a mug made from carved coconut shell. A zombie is, of course, the name of the drink. Stee...

Elliott Smith: Big Nothing [ suicide prevention ] Straight from the lips of the artist: "...do what you want to - there's no-one t...

James Taylor: Sunny Skies [ purchase ] A classic folk fragment from back in the early days, before James Taylor became the elder statesman ...

Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell: Second Option [ purchase ] Begonias is a collaboration album from Whiskeytown violinist Caitlin Cary an...

Lucero - Wandering Star [ purchase ] This song comes off Lucero's 2001 self-titled album. The opening verses of this song rang so true t...

Cake Like: Bum Leg [ Purchase ] I'd wager to say I am one of only a few people who knew of actress/comedienne Kerri Kenney as a musici...

Butthole Surfers : Human Cannonball [ purchase ] Do you know a cooler name for a band? A journalist from Spin once described the Butthole Su...