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🎵TUNE TAG Is Here! Welcome to FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE, Home of the Popular Song-Linking Game, TUNE TAG!🎵
"This is why I love Tune Tag: Brad often turns me onto cool music that is new to me!"--Matt Thompson, creator of "Critical Hit Parader" on Substack!
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🚢Yacht Pop Anchors #7: Todd Rundgren, Dean Friedman, Phil Collins & Frida
⚓Like Yacht Rock, but with more octane, more harmonies, infinitely hummable melodies, and some jangly guitars: If power pop had teeth and a Mach 5…
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Tune Tag #128 with The Record Room by Zute: Cliff Richard, Arthur Conley, Mike + The Mechanics, O'Jays, Beach Boys, Arrows, Public Enemy…
Tune Tag virgin, Zute, helps compile a proper and wide variety of musical artists from different eras and decades, as well as different genres! Why…
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UK Guitar Teacher, Tom Moloney, 25, Hears & Reacts to Jethro Tull For the First Time
 • Brad Kyle and Tom Moloney
Audio Archaeology, 1960s-1971: The Steely Dan & Becker/Fagen Songwriting Team Origin Story
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Tune Tag #120 with Thea Wood of Herizon Music: Sonny & Cher, Maxine Weldon, Rita Coolidge, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Karen Carpenter…
 • Brad Kyle and Thea Wood
Tune Tag #59 with Rich Headland of "Record Shop Stories": The Specials, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu, Massive Attack, Jellyfish, Young Gun…
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Tune Tag #100 with Flipped Out Phil: Beckies, Chris Stamey, Other Side, Micky Dolenz, Montage, Lemon Twigs, Bongos, Mark Eric
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Tune Tag #122 with Heard Follower: Tom Petty, Concrete Blonde, Jackie DeShannon, Allman Brothers, T-Bone Walker, Dead Milkmen, John Hammond…
 • Brad Kyle and Heard Follower
Audio Autopsy, 2025: Will Worden, "The Only One & All The Others" LP Reveals Countrypolitan's New Voice
Pronounced like "warden," Will moved from Texas to California in 2018 after giving business school a try. He grew up in Sugar Land, 20 miles SW from my…
 • Brad Kyle and The Twelve Inch (Disco/80s)
Tune Tag #127 with Mark Nash of Joy in the Journey, Pt. 3: Rachel Sweet, Jellyfish, Beck, Jack Black, Will Worden, Rome Will Burn, Danger…
From the north of England comes one of our favourite true gents, Mark! He comes bearing gifts, and brandishing a quiver filled with wickedly musical…
 • Brad Kyle and Mark Nash
Tune Tag #126 with Clark of Vinyl Ted: UFO, Sergio Mendes, Ian Anderson, Pink Martini, Gentle Giant, Left Banke, Grover Washington Jr.
Talk about all over the map! From prog to rock to jazz to a little easy listening, this one's as varied and fascinating as a Tag can be! Alert your…
 • Brad Kyle and Clark
Nice New York Boys and their Stellar Sunshine Pop
The story of the short-lived one-hit wonders, Every Mother's Son
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Tune Tag #125 with Nuno Babo, Pt. 2: Celtic Frost, Iggy Pop, Klark Kent, Cherie Currie, The Clique, Sniff 'n' The Tears, ? and The…
🎉Taggin' Tunes on New Year's Eve eve, we're standing on the precipice de un Nuevo Año! May we all be blessed with new friends who are as cool…
 • Brad Kyle and Nuno Babo
Tune Tag #124 with Owen McTigue of ODEA: King Crimson, Elton John, Genesis, Wendy Waldman, Procol Harum, Belle Perez, Plastic Penny, Linda…
The classical guy is hip to classic rock! Oh, this is gonna be fun!
 • Brad Kyle and Owen McTigue
🎶UK Guitar Teacher, Tom Moloney, 26, Reacts to Hearing Power Pop for the First Time, Pt. 4😲
Some of the best from known (and little-heard) power-poppers like Dodgy, Bram Tchaikovsky, Barracudas, Roy Wood, and The Last! Our resident guitarist…
 • Brad Kyle and Tom Moloney
Tune Tag #123 with Max Freedman of Lavender Sound: Kate Bush, Charli XCX, Scritti Politti, Jay Som, Charlie, Roosevelt, Nara Leão, Hot Chip
⚡Plug us in! One look at that artist list, and Max and I are calling ourselves The Eclectic Light Orchestra for this one!💡The Eclectic Company? We sing…
 • Brad Kyle and Lavender Sound (Max Freedman)
🥳Happy 100th Birthday, Dick Van Dyke! Celebrating a Century of Mirth & Melody!🎵
All singing, all dancing, all funny! As "Rob Petrie" hits the century mark, a celebration of the remarkably agile, hilarious song'n'dance man who…
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