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Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock: Volunteers [ purchase ] the album I recently read an eye-opening article that relates to my “rev...

Steve Earle : The Revolution Starts Now [ purchase ] Although the day that commemorates the American Revolution has just passed, the ...

[ purchase ] If you had told the young me that I’d be a huge soccer fan at this point in my life, I would have looked at you a bit dumb...

The Rumour: That's the Way the Ball Rolls [ Purchase ]    After 15 heroic saves, US goalie Tim Howard's block party had...

I bloody hate football, me. I suppose I ought to be ashamed of myself, as a brit, but, there, I've said it now. The beautiful gam...

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Stevie Wonder: Another Star [ purchase ] There are songs specifically written with the World Cup in mind and there are others that ...

[ purchase Southeastern ] If you have spoken to me about music over the past year or so, you probably know that my favorite album of 2013...

King of the Road [ purchase ] It is standard lore that musicians on the road used to tend to excesses. It cannot be a great life: d...

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Jefferson Airplane : Third Week in the Chelsea [ purchase ] I am willing to bet that there is no other hotel or motel in the world tha...

[ Purchase ] Talking Heads were not the first band to record songs about buildings. On his 1973 album,  Se o Caso É Chorar ,...

The Rolling Stones: Memory Motel [ purchase ] Fool to Cry is probably my favorite from the Stones’ Black and Blue, but it doesn’t fi...

[ purchase their discography ] A few weeks ago, when I made the Case for Phil Collins , I mentioned Brand X, the jazz fusion group that ...

What you and I might call a side project may not be such a “side” for the musician himself: you could argue that Ry Cooder has been buil...

THE TWILIGHT SINGERS: TEENAGE WRISTBAND (LIVE) Purchase The Twilight Singers catalog here Action on the side is always a little dark...

Austrian Death Machine [ purchase ] Metal is full of silliness (see Spinal Tap , Steel Panther , or Gwar ) and the type of faux...