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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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Tune Tag #121 with Joe Rivers of One Life: Billy Joel, Destiny's Child, Thee Sacred Souls, Van Atta High, Michel Polnareff, Billy Porter…
A proud writer, podcaster, and falafel fan, Joe's a longtime blogger (since 2008), and his writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The…
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🙌A Personal Thank You to Ian Paul Sharp, Keith R. Higgons, and David Ross! (Sunshine Blogger Award)🌞
I would've accepted a warm e-mail, but this process demands a crushing amount of secretarial busy-work to successfully execute. I'll eschew that dross…
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UK Guitar Teacher, Tom Moloney, 25, Hears & Reacts to Jethro Tull For the First Time
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Audio Archaeology, 1960s-1971: The Steely Dan & Becker/Fagen Songwriting Team Origin Story
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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 #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 #112 with Jorge Garcia of Geekatune: Judas Priest, The Who, Rush, Doobie Brothers, Billy Newton-Davis, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Keith…
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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…
She's an incredible #MusicStack supporter, and an impressive writer/interviewer! She's making her first appearance on Tune Tag, and we couldn't be…
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🌞Kicking & Screaming: Sunshine Blogger Award
This just in: Old Man Stands In Yard, Shakes Fist Defiantly, And Bellows, "Get off my lawn!" So, what else is new? What's all this I hear about an…
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Tune Tag #119 with Steve Bradley: Jane's Addiction, Spinal Tap, Marshall Tucker Band, Gene Clark, Cidny Bullens, Credibility Gap, Japan
Eclectic turns electric in this one! The new and the little-known, featuring a male singer who was a female when I owned her 1979 album that year! Oh…
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Tune Tag #118 with John Taylor of Time to Play B-Sides: Todd Rundgren, New York Dolls, Flash and the Pan, Elvis Costello, Yes Let's, Tony…
Plenty of new wave represented, but representin' the rap-sody'n'blue is one Grandmaster Flash, a rare sighting of a rap artist for Tune Tag! Should we…
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Album Review: ‘Play On: A Raspberries Tribute’
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📕Tune Tag #117 with Chris Dalla Riva: Eric Clapton, Joe Jackson, Queen, Honey Cone, Andy Griffith, Jimmy Dean, Kay Starr, Daddy Cool
A published author graces our fair pages today, as we celebrate the release of Chris's new "Uncharted Territory"! Should we re-name ourselves today…
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Inside Tracks #47: Melissa Manchester, "Come in From the Rain" 1976, w/Covers by Captain & Tennille, Vic Damone, Diana Ross, Peggy Lee…
We open with the Melissa who got the "Rain" ball rolling, and we'll end with a completely different Melissa! In between, veritable legends tackle this…
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Tune Tag #116 with Chase Roper of Kiss Me, Son of Blog, Pt. 2: Talking Heads, Serpentfoot, Nigel Olsson, Massive Attack, Faces, Jay…
Chase joins us for his 2nd go at Tune Tag, and we couldn't be happier, unless he had brought some cookies with. So, sally forth we shall, snackless, but…
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"Steal Away"-The New Single: Exclusive Interview with Singer/Songwriter, AJ Deiboldt
From the initial idea to the movie that inspired its overall feel, and what he wanted the lyrics to express, singer/songwriter/guitarist, AJDeiboldt…
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