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.

For the Uruguayans, the Stones’ first-ever concert in Uruguay was about more than the music.

Prior to the REC festival, my knowledge of Latin American music could be summed up in three words: Miami Sound Machine. I've evolved mucho.

My latest musical obsession is Lucero, a band from Memphis that has been around since the early 2000s but that I discovered only recently.

I've always been a Neil Young fan, but this record gave me an entirely new appreciation of his artistry and place in the rock canon.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Cory Branan, the Wood Brothers, Shovels & Rope and John Fullbright.

If you're stuck in a musical rut check out Shinyribs. Their eclectic blend of sounds will surely light up some part of your auditory cortex.

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.

I was unmoved when the Clash broke up, believing Joe Strummer had nothing left in the tank. Man alive was I wrong.

Gregg Allman says that Blackberry Smoke “is gonna put Southern Rock back on the map.” With their latest, the band may have proven him right.