Rosalia is a Spanish singer. In 2025 she released an album called Lux. When the year-end lists were cobbled together by all of the major music magazines, many critics declared… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #80/250: Berghain by Rosalia
Way back in my bachelor boy days, a group of friends and I formed an international cooking club. Each month we would select a country and then we would each… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #79/250: Down Under by Men At Work
When was the last time you heard a really good speech? I’m talking about a speech so good that it has gone down in the annals of history? A speech… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #78/250: Cult of Personality by Living Colour
I am hopeful that by the time you get to reading this post that British singer Olivia Dean is someone who has appeared on your music-loving radar. She recently won… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #77/250: Man I Need by Olivia Dean
This past weekend my wife and I attended a Celebration of Life for the husband of a dear friend and colleague of ours. The event was held at the family’s… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #76/250: Pieces by The O’Mys
With all that is going on in the world at the moment, you may be forgiven for missing out on the announcement that this summer is apparently going to be… Read More »Readers Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song(s) 75/250: Holiday/TLC/Look Out For Me by Turnstile
I wouldn’t be much of a music blogger if I didn’t stop to offer a few words on a band that finds itself at the centre of the world’s musical… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom Top Tunes…Song #74/250: H.O.O.D. by Kneecap
This past winter we had some work done in our furnace room in the basement that necessitated taking a jackhammer to the concrete floor. Needless to say, before work commenced… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #73/250: Starburster by Fontaines D.C.
As I type these words today, Spring is slowly returning to my piece of the world. Our tulips are just beginning to stretch up and out of the soil as… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #72/250: Always Love by Nada Surf.
A mother’s heart is definitely never hers alone. She shares it with every child who emerges from her body into the light of a waiting world. The bond between mother… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Songs #70 & 71/250: Matador by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Mothers of the Disappeared by U2