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purchase [ Cold Cold Cold ] Frozen is cold - as in Little Feat's song of the same name. There are many other Little Feat songs t...

The Sadies. Some will have heard the name, fewer, possibly, the band. SMM have but one mention for them that I can find, so time to redress...

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Well it is, isn't it? And it would have, anyway, because everything changes, that's a fact, to paraphrase Bruce Springsteen. Which i...

  The Fleshtones : The World Has Changed [ purchase ] Things are going to change on January 20. In the abstract, as an American citiz...

Above: I Scare Myself PS: Stick with it until the violin solo purchase [ Striking It Rich ] As Andy La Ray Gun said, the stage is (...

In a year in which we lost David Bowie, Prince, Merle Haggard, two thirds of ELP, Paul Kantner, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Maurice W...

In Memoriam: Merle Haggard Purchase: Mama Tried  It’s hard to keep track of all the shitty things that went down in 2016, including...

Again I seek a lesser known name to celebrate, part of the tragedy being the unnatural cause of his death, following a road traffic accident...

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Phew, 2017..... I felt I had to wait for this piece, mindful how sharp the scythe has seemed to be in this year just gone, culling indisc...

We briefly interrupt our annual In Memoriam theme for our second annual highlighting of the 10 most viewed posts of the previous year.  ...

Pat Metheny Group : Are You Going With Me (live) [ purchase ] As we all know, 2016 seems to have been the worst year ever for high pro...

purchase [ The New Possibilitiy] I'm not at all sure what constitutes a "Weird/Strange" holiday (holiday most likely = ...

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There, it is done. I have posted perhaps the worst, the least defensible holiday song ever. And, until this piece, I was the lucky one. I...

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