You can now support /amodelofcontrol.com on Patreon. I’m certainly not asking for a lot – I’ve never taken advertising for this site, and nor do I ever intend to. This is purely to assist in covering the ever-increasing costs of my site. If you choose to support, thank you. Otherwise, this site will always be […]
My /Tuesday Ten series began in March 2007, initially as an attempt to round up the best tracks of each month for my friends, but swiftly gained a life of its own. This post is to provide a list of all of the /Tuesday Ten entries so far, with links to each. A database of […]
Welcome to /Countdown/2025 – this year’s wrap-up of the best new music that I’ve heard across the year, and the 22nd year of me starting to do such annual roundups (which began on LiveJournal before moving to this site). I begin as usual, with the best compilations and reissues in no particular order, although it […]
We’re at the end of the year, nearly, and so my annual roundup of the best music of the year, in the form of /Countdown /2025, begins on Tuesday. As usual there will be four posts across four Tuesdays in December, looking at (in turn) the best compilations and reissues, then the best tracks, best […]
Yes, it’s the last days of November, yes, it’s one month until Christmas today, and yes, this is the last /Tuesday Ten of 2025.
By a quirk of fate, I wrote a /Tuesday Ten on positivity eleven years ago today, and a late change of plan over the weekend as to what subject I was going to write about meant that I settled on pessimism, without realising the significance of it.
Regret is a funny human condition, isn’t it? The concept that you can obsess over past mistakes, when you can do little or nothing other than acknowledge what happened, apologise and move on.
An avalanche of new releases this past few weeks, making my upcoming end of year lists even harder to compile… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted […]
The last /Tracks of the Month of the year has come around quickly – from the beginning of December, of course, I’ll be posting /Countdown /2025 over four weeks as I look at the best music of the year.
Denial can take many forms. It can be public denials, it can be denials to friends and lovers, it can be denial to yourself.
After last week’s filth and dirt, let us wipe the slate and this week, clean things up.
A few more weeks closer to the end of the year, and we’re now starting to see new releases for 2026 announced already… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of […]
In the latest instalment of “why didn’t I consider this subject before?”, this week and next cover twin subjects that I’m genuinely surprised that it took this long to think about.
Blimey, 2025 is flashing by. I’m now just two months out from /Countdown /2025 beginning (the best music of the year on /amodelofcontrol.com), and so I’m now seriously considering what the best of the year actually is.
This week’s post has been written from our remote cottages in the East Hampshire countryside, where we’re staying for the week with friends.
Bloody hell, there’s a lot going on at the moment: an avalanche of new releases, and new release announcements, recently. This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted […]
This is another of those /Tuesday Tens where the original inspiration for asking about this subject is likely lost to time. But, just to make sure we know what we’re talking about: “A living thing may be an object, and is distinguished from non-living things by the designation of the latter as inanimate objects. Inanimate […]
Back at Bruise Violet for another fun night.
Sometimes, I ask for submissions on a subject that I think will have loads of easy-to-use suggestions, and the reality is rather different: and so, it gets shelved for a while until the right time to use it comes up. This subject was one of those.
This is one of the rare times where I’m returning to a subject. I first wrote about food (and drink) on /Tuesday Ten /124, way back in March 2011, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised that most of the songs that I’d used at the time were barely about food, […]
It is the first Bandcamp Friday of the autumn, and don’t I know about it, judging on the groaning inbox this morning, and the large number of releases and release announcements recently. Also, the events page has had a significant revamp (links below). This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and […]
Another of my now occasional livestreams, and I was joined for the first time in a little while by Daisy.
