I share with you now the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future - whether inhabiting a shadowed room, a relationship-in-flux (stalker?) or a smo...

Andrew King : Sweet William‘s Ghost [ purchase ] Back in 1987-88, I was involved with a folk music coffeehouse in New Brunswick, NJ, called ...

Jay Brannan: Zombie [ purchase ] I know we don't usually post new music here on Star Maker Machine, but I'm sure we're all thin...

We've had two songs simply named Zombie this week. Seemed high time to give some similarly stark, soundalike spirit-world song titles ...

Nellie McKay : Zombie [ purchase ] This is obviously a completely different song from our last Zombie. Nellie McKay starts us off with a wal...

Crash Test Dummies: The Ghosts That Haunt Me [ purchase ] I may have written before that I'm not a big fan of 80's music (other th...

The Gun Club : Ghost On The Highway The Gun Club : Fire Spirit [ purchase ] "You're a ghost on the highway, your gesture´s meaningl...

Wishing Chair: The Ghost of Will Harbut [ purchase ] Man O'War was one of the greatest race horses of all time, winning 20 of his 21 sta...

Dave Rudolf : Ghouls Are on the Loose [ purchase ] “Kid’s Music” is a marketing label. It encompasses a wide range of styles. Some of it is ...

Luka Bloom: The Hungry Ghost [ purchase ] Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom is generally found among the folk crowd, but then, they define...

Fela and Afrika 70: Zombie [ purchase ] Fela Anikulapo Kuti was one unique dude. These days, many musicians think they are politicians, bu...

Suicide : Ghost Rider [ purchase ] "Ghost rider, motorcycle hero... Babybabybabybaby he's a-screamin´ the truth... America, America...

The White Stripes : Little Ghost [ 6">purchase ] Our Halloween playlist consists of over 400 songs second only to Christmas, but pic...

Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party [ purchase ] A heady Danny Elfman composition first encountered via Rodney Dangerfield vehicle Back To S...

Steve Poltz: I Thought I Saw You Last Night [ purchase ] (One Left Shoe CD) I will go on the record (no pun intended) now as admitting tha...

Unlike some of my fellow Star Makers, I do not have a collection of rarities to draw upon. So I have had to approach this theme differently....

The Quarrymen : In Spite Of All The Danger [ purchase ] Sometime in 1957, either in July or sometime in October or November, John Lennon, Pa...

Let's face it - I'm not only never early for anything... but I'm rarely even on time. I seem to go through life with a 15-minut...

One thing I miss about being a DJ is putting together a a good set of music. This week I had a lot of songs I wanted to post but didn'...

Bela Fleck: Inman Square [ purchase ] Béla Anton Leoš Fleck - named for three modern European composers - had already mastered a vast array ...