/Tuesday Ten /514 /Smash It Up
Content warning: this post contains songs with descriptions of violence and assault – in some cases graphic and unflinching – and indeed discussion of those songs. This week, I turn […]
Tag: Tori Amos
/Tuesday Ten /511 /11 Miles an Hour
Fifty-nine years ago today, US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. Generally seen as a pivotal moment in the second half of the twentieth century, certainly […]
/Countdown/2021/Albums
Onto the third and final week of /Countdown/2021 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 […]
/Welcome to the Future/193/Events, Livestreams and new releases 05-Nov 2021
Now away from the working week for a bit, it has given me time to start catching up. It is, again, Bandcamp Friday today, so along with last week’s releases, […]
/Tuesday Ten/467/Tracks of the Month/Sep-21
Another one a week later than usual, but then, life is weird and really damned busy right now. Here’s the latest slab of tracks of the month – with a […]
/Welcome to the Future/189/Events, Livestreams and new releases 24-Sep 2021
Now into autumn, the releases keep on coming. Today I bring you a fully updated events listing, a host of releases again, and a tentative return to livestreams. In the […]
/Tuesday Ten/449/Blume (Songs about Flowers)
Despite the cooler temperatures for the past day or so, the past week generally has finally felt like Spring has arrived. We’ve basked in sunshine for a few days, it’s […]
/Tuesday Ten/443/Where The Wild Roses Grow
Very occasionally at this time of year – and I’ve done this less than I thought I had – I turn to a subject that might have something to do […]
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks /60-41
Continuing the process of wrapping up the last decade before it disappears too far into the rearview mirror, this is the eighth part of the best tracks of the 2010s. […]
/Tuesday Ten /356 /Product Placement
This coming weekend, it’s the Superbowl – the culmination of the American Football season in the US, and for others, the biggest advertising platform of the year. Last year’s event […]
Tuesday Ten: 306: When Worlds Collide
The influence of classical music upon “popular” music is often forgotten, perhaps as the evolution through what became jazz and blues into rock and beyond is a complex one that […]
Tuesday Ten: 303: Tracks of the Month (July 2017)
Already back ’round to a new month, and we’re hurtling through summer. First Tuesday of the new month, then, so time for the best tracks, and there are a lot […]
Tuesday Ten: 279: Tracks of the Month (January 1997)
Over last year – to mark twenty years since I began writing about music – I ran a series of posts looking at the music I was buying and listening […]
Tuesday Ten: 255: Me Myself and I
Playing with yourself. Pleasuring oneself. Wanking. Jerk off. Whack off. Frigging. Self-abuse. Self-pollution. Spank the monkey. Flip the bean. Onanism. etc.
Tuesday Ten: 250: Tracks of the Month (February 1996)
So. Tuesday Ten 250 is quite a milestone to reach, I guess. As well as that, 2016 marks twenty years since I began writing about music, with my first review […]
Tuesday Ten: 200: Tracks of the Month (March 2014)
So, seven years – almost to the week – since I started this series, the Tuesday Ten hits #200. That’s 200 lengthy posts, and 2,000 artists, songs, albums, venues (hey, […]
/Tuesday Ten/166/Musical References
This week – for the first non-month round-up in a while – I’m looking at bands mentioning other bands or artists. Or lots of them in one song, in more […]
/Countdown/2011/Albums
During 2011 I bought an awful lot of albums. at least 75, in fact. And so many that some that might have made it in a normal year ended up […]
/Countdown/2011/Tracks
This is the eighth year that I’ve done a rundown of the music released in the past year – and every year I seem to end up with more material […]
Tuesday Ten: 140: Tracks of the Month (August 2011)
Time for another of my monthly new(ish) track roundups. You know the drill by now, right?