This belongs here this week. Comedian Patton Oswalt takes on a Christian holiday song awash in misery. If you are easily offended or surro...

  Simon & Garfunkel: Silent Night/7 O'clock News @ amazon mp3s The end of the year holiday season brings a mix joy and sad...

Buy Mapfumo Buy Kidjo I don't recall submitting a post for this one and maybe I didn't, but, rather than checking, it seems...

Drive-By Truckers : Gravity’s Gone [ purchase ] After Thanksgiving, we at Star Maker Machine have typically run a “Leftovers” theme, l...

Alejandro Escovedo : Rosalie [ purchase ] Most of the music that I like isn’t popular, and that’s fine. Sometimes, artists that I lik...

[ purchase Murmur ]  Touring rock bands, short on sleep, are making their own kind of pilgrimage from club to club. Road weary, ...

Pity the poor emigrant. No, this isn't a misprint. You can, and maybe will, blame this on my inability to fully appreciate Thanksgiving;...

Buy the album, and read the lyrics Immigration, the immigrant... The name itself conjures up more songs than would fit into one ...

Led Zeppelin : Immigrant Song [ purchase ] Sometimes the right choice is the obvious one. For people of my generation, I would bet th...

Download [ Wishbone Ash: The Pilgrim ] There have been several comments here recently that are fitting for our next theme: Blog contri...

John Mellencamp, "Rain on the Scarecrow"  Buy Music is about discovery. Or at least it is to me: one band leads...