/Tuesday Ten /620 /Tracks of the Month /Jan-26
Finally, the eternal month of January is over, and now we’re into February, it’s time for the best tracks of the first month of the year.
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/Tuesday Ten /619 /Inspiration
Perhaps ironically, given the subject, this post has taken three or four attempts to complete. I’ve looked at the suggestions before without success since the suggestion thread was posted back in 2020, finding little inspiration to actually complete the post.
/Tuesday Ten /618 /Boredom
The first couple of weeks of January are usually a drag. There’s little going on, most people are saving their money for more interesting times later in the year, and the weather, at least in the northern hemisphere, is usually pretty grim.
/Tuesday Ten /617 /Starman – David Bowie covers
David Bowie died ten years ago this week (on 10-Jan 2016). He’s been one of those artists whom I’ve been listening to his music probably as long as I was able to appreciate music. My dad, naturally, was/is a fan, and it was probably Let’s Dance I heard first (I was nearly five when that […]
/Welcome to the Future /301 /Events, Livestreams and Upcoming Releases for 2026 – 09-Jan 2026
As is traditional at the beginning of each year, I wrap up what is known about new releases for the new year. As always, this comes with a health warning: not all releases will happen, or they may change: what I list here is based on information I’ve seen from official sources. This post is […]
/Tuesday Ten /616 /Tracks of the Month /Dec-25
2026 is an important year for me: it marks thirty years since I began writing about music (the actual anniversary comes at the end of September). But it is also going to be the year where I start to wind down my writing, and this website.
/Countdown /2025 /Gigs
The final part of /Countdown 2025 sees me looking at the best gigs of the year. Some statistics for my gig-going in 2025. Like last year, I went to 36 shows (each festival is counted by number of days – so Infest is three days, so counts for three shows), and saw 133 live sets. […]
/Welcome to the Future /300 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 19-Dec 2025
We’re at the end of the year, pretty much, and I’ve been deep into my annual roundup of the best music of the year, in the form of /Countdown /2025. The last of the posts comes this Tuesday. In the meantime, here’s the 300th edition of this occasional Friday roundup, and the last one of […]
/Countdown /Albums /2025
Onto the third week of /Countdown/2025 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat the “year” as 01-December to 30-November, to allow me a cut-off point, and to allow this to be done and dusted before Christmas so that I can […]
/Countdown /2025 /Tracks
Continuing the /amodelofcontrol.com review of 2025 – which this week is the twentieth /Tracks of the Year list on this site. Next week will be the wrap of the best albums of 2025.
/Countdown /2025 /Compilations & Re-issues
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 […]
/Welcome to the Future /299 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 28-Nov 2025
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 […]
/Tuesday Ten /615 /All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
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.
/Tuesday Ten /614 /There’s No Future In Optimism
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.
/Tuesday Ten /613 /No Medicine For Regret
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.
/Welcome to the Future /298 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 07-Nov 2025
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 […]
/Tuesday Ten /612 /Tracks of the Month /Oct-25
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.
/Tuesday Ten /611 /Denial Is A River
Denial can take many forms. It can be public denials, it can be denials to friends and lovers, it can be denial to yourself.
/Tuesday Ten /610 /Keep It Clean
After last week’s filth and dirt, let us wipe the slate and this week, clean things up.
/Welcome to the Future /297 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 17-Oct 2025
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 […]