/Welcome to the Future /269 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 12-Apr 2024
Another lengthy wrap-up of new music either already here, or coming your way.
Another lengthy wrap-up of new music either already here, or coming your way.
With the end of March and the clocks going forward, we inch into April, hopefully some better weather, and the onset of Spring.
This week, /Tuesday Ten /541 goes bang.
Back to writing about the best gigs of the year for the first time in three years. Some statistics for my gig-going in 2022. I went to 36 shows (each […]
This week, what started out as a quick round-up of the best music I was listening to at the time (not necessarily new music initially), thanks to a request from […]
Neubauten return with their delayed 40th anniversary tour
Over recent posts in the past month or so, I’ve been working with the shortest one-word song titles we could think of. There was only one way I could go […]
There are times when I ask questions for this long-running series that turn out, well, differently to how I might have expected, and this is one of those times.
As I’ve noted before, I come from a military family. My parents both lived overseas as children and teenagers when their fathers were stationed in Germany (in different locations), and […]
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 […]
This winter in the UK has seen another time where the weather has seen fit to make an already crap time (lockdown) even worse. There’s been heavy snow, storms, lots […]
Onto the third and final week of /Countdown/2020 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 […]
Into the last month of this bizarre, weird year – and this weekly release and events roundup keeps on going. There is still new music to enjoy, hence why I […]
Twenty-five years ago yesterday (20-July 1995), I made it to my first proper gig. I headed over to Roundhay Park in the north-eastern edges of Leeds, along with tens of […]
We keep going within the lockdown. There are new releases, and still, new music is coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. The […]
Continuing the process of wrapping up the last decade before it disappears too far into the rearview mirror, this is the final part of the best albums of the 2010s. […]
Blimey, even a month is a long time in music, eh? When I wrote /Tuesday Ten/398, there was a gathering storm on the horizon, so to speak, and since then, […]
Over the past month or so, I’ve driven more than I have in the past few years. I’ve had the company of my wife, our music and the drone of […]
Back to the usual routine of weekly Friday posts, containing new music or events to consider. This is the usual amodelofcontrol.com round-up, of new music coming your way this week […]
Thirty years ago last week – last Thursday, in fact, one of the most important alternative rock albums ever was released. Doolittle by Pixies remains a high-watermark, arguably kickstarted the […]