Controlled Burnes returns after a rough couple of weeks at the Burnes’ household as host Andrew Burnes walks his Spotify Wrapped results and the 80+ albums he listened to in 2025 including some all-time greats, Taylor Swift’s divisive Life of a Showgirl, and the full discographies of famed artists including Bob Seger, LCD Soundsystem and…
On this week’s episode of the podcast, host Andrew Burnes continues the multi-part discussion of his top 100 favorite musical artists of all time with entries 40-21 along with a recap of the bottom 60. The next and final part of this series will be included in the next episode of the podcast, so look…
On this week’s episode of the podcast, host Andrew Burnes continues the multi-part discussion of his top 100 favorite musical artists of all time with entries 60-41 along with a recap of the bottom 40. Future parts of this series will be included in future episodes of the podcast, so look forward to that and…
On this week’s episode of the podcast, host Andrew Burnes continues the multi-part discussion of his top 100 favorite musical artists of all time with entries 80-61 along with a recap of the bottom 20 and some of the adjustments that have already been made to the list since just last week! Future parts of…
On this week’s episode of the podcast, host Andrew Burnes kicks off the multi-part discussion of his top 100 favorite musical artists of all time. Andrew kicks off the discussion with the history of how he got into music and what sparked his passion for list-making as well as the 15-year odyssey that was constructing…
C+ Crash is a tale of two albums. At its best, it is Dave Matthews Band and its most heartfelt (and commercially successful) with the smash hit “Crash into Me,” which, according to Spotify monthly listeners anyway, remains far and away the band’s biggest record to date. The duology of “#41” and “Say Goodbye,” complete…
B- Earlier this month, I traveled with my wife’s family up to Colorado to see a concert at the legendary Red Rocks amphitheater. They were there for Andy Frasco and the U.N., an amusing enough band that knows how to put on a highly entertaining live performance, even if their songwriting is nothing to write…
S By the time Guns N’ Roses arrived at the final tracklist for their landmark debut LP Appetite for Destruction, it already sounded like a best of compilation. The group had already recorded a number of tracks that would later appear across the Use Your Illusion albums, but narrowed its focus to the best of…
B- It may be hard to imagine now, but in 1956, Elvis Presley’s debut album was the most critical Rock n’ Roll release in history. It was the first rock record to sell 1 million copies and was a foundational piece of the launch of music’s most lauded cover artist to superstardom. The album was…
S Epic, unadulterated brilliance. From the opening piano hit on “Thunder Road,” to Clarence Clemons’ stratospheric sax solo at the apex of “Jungleland,” Born to Run is 39 minutes of musical brilliance from the greatest songwriter to ever live backed by the best collection of musicians to hit the Jersey circuit. In fact, the album…
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