The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2020
Well, 2020 has certainly sucked for so many reasons but TFN has found some silver lining in the fantastic music that was released this year. … Read more
Top 25 Artists Of The Week 2020 – Discover, Support, Share
TFN Artists Of The Week is one of our favorite features and probably is the one which gets the most attention. In 2020, we featured … Read more
The Fire Note Top Albums of 2020: Writer Edition
The Fire Note would not be possible without the talented writers that share their educated thoughts and true enjoyment of music with our readers. The … Read more
Prog 2020: The Year In Review
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Dickens himself couldn’t have explained this year any better. With a global pandemic … Read more
Still Standing: First Generation Rockers & Musicians Need Love Too!
The recent death of Little Richard Penniman was a stark reminder that the founders of rock and pop music are not getting any younger. It’s … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2019
#50 Steve Gunn The Unseen In Between Matador Records [2019] Steve Gunn is a well-known industry talent that really took a step forward in 2016 … Read more
Top 25 Tracks of 2019
Music has been good this year! Each week, I tried to sample at least a song from each new single, EP, or album. As I … Read more
Top 10 TFN Artists Of Week 2019: Discover, Support, Share
We brought back one of our favorite features this year with several small tweaks and over the last third of 2019 we highlighted 33 artists … Read more
The Fire Note Top Albums of 2019: Writer Edition
The Fire Note would not be possible without the talented writers that share their educated thoughts and true enjoyment of music with our readers. The … Read more
Prog 2019: The Year In Review
The apocryphal, and often repeated, origin story of Prog has it that in 1969 King Crimson released In The Court Of The Crimson King and … Read more
Prog 2018: The Year In Review
As another calendar year comes to an end it seems like 2018 was full of yardmarkers – elections, mass shootings, North Korea, etc. But it … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2018
#50 Ty Segall & White Fence Joy Drag City Records [2018] It wouldn’t be a good year if there were not plenty of Ty Segall … Read more
The Fire Note Top Albums of 2018: Writer Edition
The Fire Note would not be possible without the talented writers that share their educated thoughts and true enjoyment of music with our readers. The … Read more
Honorable Mention Albums 2018
The simple fact is that TFN receives hundreds of albums every year for review. In regards to our annual best of list -The Blazing Top … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2017
#50 Old 97’s Graveyard Whistling ATO Records [2017] Drinkin’, whiskey, cars, trouble, women, God and Texas – Dallas, Texas that is. That has been the … Read more
The Fire Note Top Albums of 2017: Writer Edition
The Fire Note wouldn’t be possible without the talented writers that share their educated thoughts and true enjoyment of music with our readers. The time … Read more
Prog 2017: The Year In Review
Progressive Rock is not dead. It’s been relegated to the back of the line but it refuses to go away. And this is the time … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2016
#50 M Ross Perkins M Ross Perkins SofaBurn Records [2016] It was a good year for Dayton, Ohio native M. Ross Perkins. He had a … Read more
Honorable Mention Albums of 2016
Let’s face it – not every album we enjoyed can end up in our year end Blazing Top 50. Many times, there are records that … Read more
Prog 2016 – The Year In Review
It’s been a rough couple years for Prog with the losses of Chris Squire of Yes, Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of ELP, Nektar’s Roye … Read more
The Fire Note Top Albums of 2016: Writer Edition
The Fire Note wouldn’t be possible without the talented writers that share their educated thoughts and true enjoyment of music with our readers. The time … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2015
#50 Radioactivity Silent Kill Dirtnap Records [2015] Punk rock has been getting a bad rap over the last decade or so for not being creative, … Read more
The Fire Note Top Albums of 2015: Writer Edition
The Fire Note wouldn’t be possible without the talented writers that share their educated thoughts and true enjoyment of music with our readers. The time … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums of 2014
#50 The Safes Record Heat Wee Rock Records [2014] #50 is one of the hardest positions to select because there are plenty of albums that … Read more
The Fire Note Honorable Mention Albums of 2014
We will admit that we are only human. 2014 flew by and as always there were plenty of albums that never hit our review page … Read more