Jonatha Brooke : Secrets and Lies [ purchase ] This theme was inspired by the recent revelations that there is a chance that the Presi...

purchase[ The Ventures: James Bond Theme ] Whereas spies aim to be as secretive as possible, there's no better song to scream ...

purchase [ True ] It wasn't more than about 1 minute into my decision to post about Avicii that I realized I might be in over my h...

A much more influential individual than the blank expression that meets the hearing of his name in most circles, O'Flynn was the firs...

Edwin Hawkins Singers : Oh Happy Day [ purchase ] The elephant in the room here is Aretha Franklin, a musical titan who died last year...

Another "cheat" post for this theme, in honor of the great Marty Balin, one of the founders of Jefferson Airplane, whose blue-e...

I remember the first time I heard the Cranberries. The musical soundscape was pretty drab and uniform in the early 90s, you could have e...

purchase [ Second Helping album ] It seemed to me that there were a lot more choices for the 2017 <In Memoriam> theme than for ...

I've a sneaky feeling this possibly unfamiliar name may mean more to the cinephiles out there than to the musos. I'd like to hop...

Steve Hackett : A Tower Struck Down [ purchase All Things Must Pass, the Tower Records documentary ] [ purchase Hackett's Voyage o...

I'm going to cheat a little here, but about a year and a half ago, I wrote a piece about the opening of Jazz Forum , a jazz club in T...

purchase [ No More Changes ] Can you identify a musician's "signature style" just by hearing them play on a particula...

We interrupt the Un-Sainted Nick theme for our fourth annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usually) ...

To nick is to steal in my land. That is, amongst myriad other meanings, including, bizarrely, to arrest someone and put them in THE nick, a ...

Nick Lowe : Christmas At The Airport [ purchase ] I’m sort of doctrinaire about the creeping expansion of holidays. I’ve accepted Pre...

purchase [ Nick of Time ] Well ... here's a new word for you that you probably won't ever need, but if you were to remember to...

Christmas is so often a time of extras when it might be better looking for less. I'm looking at your plates and your glasses. (OK, yo...

I veer from the standard "post a song with extra" because I just couldn't get into my original idea. It's not that Lou R...

Cracker : Eurotrash Girl [ purchase ] If you purchased Cracker’s 1993 CD Kerosene Hat and looked at the track listing on the back, yo...

purchase [ Eric Burdon - Spill The Wine ] I believe it was Darius who once noted that even a short post was better than none. I'...