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Music exploration, commentary, analysis & memories! Home of Tune Tag + popular Audio Autopsy and Inside Tracks + Stephen Michael Schwartz Stories!
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Inside Tracks #43: "Tonight"-Tina Turner Covers David Bowie & Iggy Pop, Live, 1988
In an attempt to clean up, Ig & David travel to the Heroin Capital of the World to write and record in 1976! They wind up with a song that both record…
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Tune Tag #74 with Matt Madurski of "Chart Chat," Pt. 2: Lou Reed, Blackstreet, Gotye, Perry Como, Far East Movement, Sting, AWA
From Perry Como to Far East Movement, Tune Tag travels the decades, the genres, the eras, and this planet like it never has before! Needless to say…
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Matt Madurski
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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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Tune Tag #68 with Andy's Weird Ohio: King Crimson, Lou Reed, Curved Air, Michael Tilson Thomas, Slowdive, The Smiths, Alice Cooper, Curve
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Tune Tag #73 with Dino Corvino of "Skateboarding on Their Altar": Reignwolf, Carole King, Jesse Dayton, Sam Weber, BØRNS, Off By One, Gladys…
Happy New-New Year, indeed! This Tune Tag with Dino reveals a whole lot of the new-to-me newness! A couple of good ole "oldies" keep us centered…
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Audio Autopsy, 2013: One Direction No One Expected: The Blondie & Undertones Medley For Charity
To the hipper-than-thou, kindly adjust your "cool quotient" to allow for the following several moments where a billion-selling teen-pop group is…
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Tune Tag #72 with David Burton of "If You Get Confused": Allman Bros, Ozzy, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep, Billy Joel, Pavlov's Dog, Blue Öyster…
Warm up the station wagon! It's a Classic Rock bonanza for this one! A couple of Baby Boomers Tune Taggin'? Hardly. Would you believe our guest isn't…
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David Burton
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Audio Autopsy, 1967:🎵Victor Garber & The Sugar Shoppe: Actor, 75, Had a '60s Folk-Pop Start🎶
He's excelled on the stage, and on screens big and small. But, before all that, he was a '60s solo folk singer, and was in a folk group who broke into…
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Tune Tag #71 with Tad Callin of "All Kinds Musick": REM, Neko Case, Scritti Politti, Afro Celt Sound System, Elaine Stritch, She & Him…
In our first "Tune Tad," we feature a recording artist who's also a fellow Substack-er, and we check in on one of our favorite people, Matthew Sweet…
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All Kinds Musick
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When the Boys Cover Whitney Houston #4: "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Michael Masser & Will Jennings, 1987
Andy, of the entertaining "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 #70 with Ryan Mac of "Ryan's Reviews": Kiss, Pearl Jam, New York Dolls, XTC, Led Zeppelin, Stone Temple Pilots
Tune Taggin' with Ryan Mac, a guy who digs hard rock and pro wrestling! As long as he doesn't slam me into the turnbuckle, we should be OK! Speaking of…
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Inside Tracks #42: "Lovin' Things" by Artie Schroeck, Jet Loring: Evolution of a Hit, feat. Bobby Rydell, Marmalade, Petula Clark, Grass…
A jingle writer gets his start writing pop songs! In a handful of covers, we track the evolution of a mighty pop song from its humble '60s beginnings to…
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Tune Tag #69 with Dave Tomar of "Music Influence": The Beat, Monroes, Stranglers, The Jam, Phil Collins, Joe Jackson, Anita Dobson
Some classic rock and a little new wave converge for a surprising finish featuring a rock'n'roll husband'n'wife team many of us were unaware of! Plus…
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Music Influence
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