To immunize your child against pop, play this mix late at night while the infant is nursing. For best results, repeat often.
Jan
30
Dec
12
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.
Nov
1
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.
Oct
18
This Playlist includes tracks from the artists featured on Fine Tuning over the blog’s first six months.
Sep
20
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.
Oct
8
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!
Sep
10
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.
May
6
In honor of Mother’s Day, I put together a rock ‘n’ roll playlist featuring all female vocalists.
Apr
22
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.
Apr
9
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).