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"The Best Music History Writing Online!"-Classic Rock, Prog, Pop, & Punk, 1960s to the Present!
Music exploration, commentary, analysis & memories! Home of Tune Tag + popular Audio Autopsy and Inside Tracks + Stephen Michael Schwartz Stories!
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🚢Yacht Pop Anchors #6: Flo & Eddie, It Bites, Todd Rundgren & Utopia
⚓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 #67 with Sonny Rane of "The Gen X Jukebox": Rush, Tragically Hip, Arcade Fire, Cutting Crew, Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen, Kiefer…
It's Gen X vs. Baby Boomer in this Tune Tag for the ages (old and a little younger)! Can both be tragically hip, or, will one show he's up for the task…
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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 #62 with Peter C. Baker of "Tracks on Tracks": Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, Jethro Tull, Tweedy, Smog, Alan Parsons, Jeremy Jordan
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🐰Audio Autopsy, 1970: Before Dr. Demento, He Was Warner Bros. Records PR Writer, Barry Hansen
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Tune Tag #49 with Ian Sharp of "LP": Beatles, Rupert Holmes, Steve Hillage, XTC, Knickerbockers, Todd Rundgren, James McCartney, The Rutles
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Tune Tag #61 with Steve Gabe: Shrapnel, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbert, Garland Jeffreys, Ronnie Spector, Velvet Underground, Ramones…
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The Beatles Diaries: Celebrating 60 Years and The Feb 9, 1964 Appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
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Audio Autopsy: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Power Classic Rock Into New Millennium
Anachronism: "A chronological inconsistency, or the act of placing something in the wrong time period." Rarely does a rock act have their pic accompany…
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Tune Tag #66 with Dee Rambeau "Of a Sober Mind": Bonnie Raitt, Subdudes, Stephen Michael Schwartz, Jackson Browne, Melissa Manchester…
Two Texans Tune Tag 'til the cows come home, driving right pasture house! A little rock, a little pop, and most likely, a lot of barbecue to top it all…
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Audio Autopsy: Michael Zager Boogies From Late '60s Rock to '70s Disco🕺"Let's All Chant"💃
The rare career move across decades from a ten-piece rock band with a female lead singer to a hit-making career producing disco records makes this New…
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PeDupre
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Tune Tag #65 with Matt McClure: Lilys, Lickerish Quartet, Beck, Mavis Staples, Wilco, Three O'Clock, Steve Earle, Quick
Remember Pop Rocks? Blue Razz was the nazz, natch! Well, we got a little pop, and a little rock in our Tune Tag today! You may actually discover a new…
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🤡🎸Mock the Rock #2: Rockers Imitate Their Peers Through the Years!
Funny meets funky as we take another spin on the parody turntable! Some say rockers take themselves far too seriously. To that, we can only skeptically…
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Tune Tag #64 with Steve Goldberg of "Earworms & Song Loops," Pt. 3: Hall & Oates, Tina Turner, Heaven 17, Blue Öyster Cult, Glen Campbell…
After some vino and a game of UNO, good friend of FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE, Steve, and I do the Tune Tag tussle, mixing'n'matching tunes 'til the cows come…
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Steve Goldberg
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🎤When the Boys Cover Whitney Houston #3: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," Merrill & Rubicam-1987
Andy, of the engaging "The Vinyl Room," joins us again for our FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE continuing series, as we continue our romp through a legend's…
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Andres
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Tune Tag #63 with Michael Elliott of "The Mixtape": Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, Memphis Horns, The Flirtations, Doobie Brothers, Roxy Music…
'70s classic rock appears to rule the day, but you know Tune Tag: Just when you think you can settle into one genre or era....SURPRISE! It's Tune Tag…
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Michael Elliott
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Mock the Rock #1: Rockers Imitate Their Peers Through the Years!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, "they" say. But, how about parody and satire? We answer to no one here, so please feel free to be the…
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