This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Big Country, Big Thief, Lake Street Dive, the Jayhawks and a few others thrown in for kicks.

Terra Lightfoot, from Ontario, Canada, hits my ear as a cross between Melissa Etheridge and Heart.

This Playlist consists of songs I've intended to write about for a while but for whatever reason have yet to make it out of my notebook.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Patto, Deer Tick, Dave Matthews Band (with Warren Haynes), and Elise Davis.

This Playlist compiles songs by some of the musicians who died during the year. Sadly, this year’s playlist is a Who’s Who of rock legends.

Calling all Black Crowes fans! Run, don’t walk, to your phone, laptop, record store — however you roll — and check out The Magpie Salute.

The Suitcase Junket is a one-man band that's equal parts folk, blues, bluegrass, and when Matt Lorenz kicks up the distortion, punk.

A.A. Bondy’s music is spare, dark and penetrating. Much of it features just Bondy on acoustic guitar singing of sadness and loss.

Bonnie Bishop has evolved from a self-described country singer trying to sell beer at Texas dance halls to a bluesy soul singer.

The latest Playlist of artists featured on Fine Tuning.

T Bird and the Breaks blend all kinds of styles to create what the band calls “chunk” music: equal parts funk, hip-hop, and rock ‘n’ roll.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features David Crosby, the Seratones, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, and the Rolling Stones.

This Playlist compiles songs by some of the rock musicians who died this year. Sadly, 2016 was an unusually active year for untimely deaths.

Mercifully, the 2016 presidential campaign is coming to an end. As a not-so-fond farewell, here's a playlist of the best political rockers.

This Playlist includes tracks from the artists featured on Fine Tuning over the blog’s first six months.

Hollis Brown is a new band with an old sound. Any band naming itself after a Dylan song and covering an entire VU album is worth hearing.

Slobberbone’s hard-driving rock sound softened with a whiff of country twang is just what I needed to re-acclimate to the U.S.

This playlist includes tracks I listened to on the flight home to California after spending seven months abroad in South America.

It's difficult to write about any aspect of Chilean culture without making reference to the Pinochet dictatorship. And so it is with music.

Seeing the Chilean cover band was like taking a university course on Pink Floyd. I was stunned how thin my knowledge was of the Floyd.