🎵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!
The reviews are in! Tune Tag is catching on! Here’s what they’re saying!
It’s free-form radio but more fun!
-Emm, creator of Emm as in Music on Substack, January 20, 2026
Your Tuesdays will never feel boring again. Don’t ask me how I know this. See — and hear — for yourself 😉
-Andres of The Vinyl Room, after this 5/26/26 Tune Tag with Matt Fish
What an honor it was to be tapped by Brad Kyle to take part in his famous Tune Tag series! I had long been a fan, and now had the privilege to go toe-to-toe with the master, in a playful musical joust!
-Ali, creator of Hi-Fi Amateur on Substack, February 21, 2026
“One of the things I enjoy the most about TT is learning! I honestly did not know Joan Jett had covered ‘I Love Rock N' Roll.’ My apologies to The Arrows, and I am glad that is one more thing I have straight in my head!”
-Brain of J-Hawk (he/him) of Music of My Mind on Substack.
“I’m realizing that Tune Tag is, in its way, the original and ongoing version of the Sunshine Blogger Awards. We learn so much about each other from our music choices!”🎵
-Steve Goldberg, creator of Earworms and Song Loops on Substack, Dec. 16, 2025
“Here it is: The most fun you’ll have on Substack!”
-Michael Elliott, creator of The Mixtape on Substack.
“Brad Kyle’s Tune Tag is one of Substack’s essential music games. Some might call it trivia, but it’s not trivial: It’s fun.”
-Wayne Robins, creator of Critical Conditions by Wayne Robins
Wow, that’s a full meal! My favorite Tune Tag of the year! I really feel like I could spend a full day just really getting to know those songs -- there’s a lot of different styles of music done really well.
I feel like I could say the same about every track this week. All of them make you wake up a bit and think, “that was cool, and I know I missed some of the details.”
- NickS (WA) of Earnestness is Underrated Substack
A fun ride for people who like music. Danger of addiction to coolness and awesomeness. Enter at your own risk! You have been warned.
- Nuno Babo of Needle in a Substack
“A must read! If you like music, this your place. Tune Tag is really the only reason I get out of bed on Tuesdays!”
-Chris Bro, creator of Chris’s Shaped By Sound Substack.
More from our newest Paid Subscriber, Emm as in Music, blessherheart!💘Thank you, Emm!👇
✨The origins of Tune Tag, plus How to Play!👇
Wanna play? Tag Tunes with Brad by DM-ing him on Substack’s Notes, here👇
“Playing Tune Tag is honestly one of the best gifts a music writer on Substack can get. Tune Tag is so much fun…an essential read (and listen)!”
- Pe Dupre of The Twelve Inch (Disco/80s) on Substack.
“Tune Tag: The most fun writing-related thing I’ve ever done. Thanks, Brad!”
- Colin Cerniglia, creator of CERNIG on Substack, and author on the Amazon Bestseller List with Culture of Excellence: What Can We Learn From the Yankees About Leadership.
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