Purchase "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" This is the obit from The Dead Rock Stars Club website, which is oddly, very poorly...

We briefly interrupt our annual In Memoriam theme to start a new tradition—highlighting the 10 most viewed posts of 2015. The variety ...

Demis Roussos (died 25 January, 2015, aged 68) The things you learn bloggin for SMM! The category “Famous Greek Rock Bands” is slim p...

3 score years and ten seems the yardstick of allotted life, and has seemed to be, as long as I recall, irrespective of the fact that, at...

Anyone who reads my stuff would probably have bet on an In Memoriam post about the late Daevid Allen, of Soft Machine and Gong, who died ...

  Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers : Atheists Don’t Have No Songs [ purchase ] I can’t pinpoint when I became an atheist. A...

First off .. let's agree that what we celebrate as Christmas is a melange, to say the least. It is a mix of traditions that include ...

Of course, Christmas is a nonsense, timing wise. Whether or not Jesus of Nazareth was real, and it seems likely he was, the timing of his...

Watch/Listen: A Long December  Purchase:   A Long December Just a quick note this month, as the Christmas season revs up, the ...

The Klezmatics : Happy Joyous Hanukkah [ purchase ] For the next two weeks, we will be looking at holiday music that is not Christma...

purchase [ I Am The Light of the World ]   There's something about guitar finger picking for those who play the guitar (as oppose...

(Heh, heh, heh, esteemed buddy, KK, you can't throw a gauntlet of that size down and expect me to walk away........) Now, where were w...

purchase [ Once In A Lifetime ] The Element: Water redux I really thought Retropath was headed down the right path when he started ...

Nick Lowe : All Men Are Liars [ purchase ] It is a post-Thanksgiving tradition at SMM to have a “Leftovers” theme, which allows our wr...

Purchase [ Carole King's version ] Purchase [ Aretha Franklin's version ] If I were filling out a form that asked me for the ...

purchase the original [ Where You Lead ] It's a default: Tapestry is Carole King's best. There's not a song on th...

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes : Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? [ purchase ] You could argue that one of the ways to tell if a song...

Purchase: The Byrds, The Notorious Byrd Brothers Listen:  Going Back It is one of those almost cliché—yet still astounding—facts ...

It's possibly a fact that Ms King's best known song is in itself best known as a cover, namely the comforting and syrupy balm of J...

David Johansen : We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life [ purchase ] Last week, I watched all 10 epis...