To immunize your child against pop, play this mix late at night while the infant is nursing. For best results, repeat often.
The Memorial Playlist compiles songs by some of the rock musicians who passed away during the year. Sadly, 2016 was an unusually active year for untimely deaths.
Mercifully, the 2016 presidential campaign is coming to an end. As a not-so-fond farewell, I compiled a playlist of 16 of the greatest political rock songs.
This Playlist includes tracks from the artists featured on Fine Tuning over the blog’s first six months.
This playlist includes some of the tracks I listened to on the flight back to California after spending seven months abroad in South America. Not surprisingly, I found myself daydreaming about home.
This Playlist consists of songs I have intended to write about for a while but for whatever reason have yet to make it out of my notebook and onto the blog. So I thought I would package them up into a nice little playlist and discharge my curatorial duties in one fell swoop!
This playlist is guaranteed to get you fired up for the start of school (or at least fired up). It’s filled with tracks about summer love, books, history, and teenage romance, all leading, inevitably, to songs of teenage angst.
In honor of Mother’s Day, I put together a rock ‘n’ roll playlist featuring all female vocalists.
To mark my 45th birthday, I created a playlist that is nothing less than a musical journey through my entire rock ‘n’ roll listening life.
To mark the start of baseball season, Fine Tuning compiled a playlist of the Top 25 MLB Walk-Up Songs. Why 25? Because that’s the number of players on an active MLB roster, of course. See which players and teams have the best taste in music (and which team has the worst).
Creating a Top Ten Rolling Stones playlist was no easy feat. For days I was wracked with indecision to the point of paralysis as I pondered the question of what self-respecting Stones fan would snub “Street Fighting Man”?
For each sappy love song, I have added a counterpoint, a tune that approaches the concept of love with, shall we say, a jaundiced eye. Because the most powerful love songs, like all the most powerful art, are not happy occasions.
This Playlist is a sampling of tunes on my musical map, songs that have become inextricably linked with certain places.
To immunize your child against pop, play this mix late at night while the infant is nursing. For best results, repeat often.
Not only has the Streaming Age eliminated our ability to give albums and CDs as gifts, but we are now living in a world without mixed tapes. This week’s Playlist features songs from the embarrassingly-sappy “Matt-in-Mourning” mixed tape I made for my now-wife when she went to Europe for a summer during college.
These tracks may not be about ghosts and goblins, but they nonetheless cast a long, dark shadow of foreboding.
A Top Ten playlist of the best rock ‘n’ roll cover songs, according to a painstaking methodology I have developed over the years. With one notable exception, these are either excellent versions of obscure tracks or completely revamped classics.
A gym playlist for classic rock fans, guaranteed to get you through your workout — guaranteed.
If you are heading to the mountains and don’t have any Barry Manilow on hand, try this mix for inspiration.