10 days back, in my haste to get a new theme out, I neglected to search the SMM archives: In fact, back in 2008, SMM did a "Johns...

If you have an hour to spare, this says it way better than I can Buy this early marvel John Wardle. You've never heard of h...

John Hiatt & The Goners : My Dog & Me [ purchase ] That handsome guy pictured above was named Strummer, after the great Joe, w...

[ purchase the Dick’s Picks version ] [ purchase the original Workingman’s Dead version ] The Grateful Dead are an incredibly polarizi...

John, eh? Big bad? B Goode? (Or even be good, Johnny*.) 99? Or should it be the still warm Winter, J, R.I.P, hoping it will be for someon...

Violent Femmes : Children of the Revolution [ purchase ] No matter how much you think you may know about music (or anything), you don’...

Play it here! Buy it here! (Of course it's on vinyl!!) We don't need a revolution in the summertime We don't need a rev...

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...

Lindisfarne feat. Gazza: Fog on the Tyne (Revisited) It's like lycanthropy. Once every four years, I change. I incorporate ...

Barcelona : Kasey Keller [ purchase ] Like any good American, I have been glued to the television over the past week, watching the Wor...

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...

(Sorry, but someone had to, from the ridiculous to the sublime...........) Alabama 3       Max Romeo Nancy Sinatra Tangerine D...

Buy the single!! Bit of a change here, rather than invoking the C word and it's inability to be left, or Zappas entire chain...

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...