The Fire Note Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2025
2025 proved to be another challenging year for music lovers, with so many standout releases that shaping this list pushed us in all the right … Read more
The Fire Note Writer Edition Top Albums of 2025
At The Fire Note, our writers are the spark behind every review, premiere, and hidden gem we feature. Their curiosity, their deep listening, and their … Read more
The Fire Note Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2024
2024 has been an outstanding year for music, with a steady stream of exceptional releases making this year’s list one of the most challenging to … Read more
The Fire Note Writer Edition Top Albums of 2024
At The Fire Note, our writers are the backbone of everything we do. We want to give a heartfelt shout-out to these incredible contributors—both past … Read more
The Fire Note Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2023
2023 was a great year in music! Solid release after solid release made this year’s list one of the hardest to put together in TFN’s … Read more
The Fire Note Writer Edition Top Albums of 2023
At The Fire Note, our writers are the heart and soul of what we do. We want to give a big shout-out to these amazing … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2022
The music world has been slowly uncoiling from the pandemic which gave us another onslaught of great 2022 releases this year. This created another tough … Read more
The Fire Note Writer Edition Top Albums of 2022
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 2022: The Year In Review
2022 was a banner year for us here at The Fire Note as we rolled out a new section on the website – The Prog … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2021
2021 was great year in music! Solid release after solid release made this year’s list one of the hardest to put together in TFN’s 15 … Read more
The Fire Note Writer Edition Top Albums of 2021
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 2021: The Year In Review
It is with great sadness that we present this year’s Prog Year In Review. The world of progressive rock lost one of its leading lights … Read more
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 Writer Edition Top Albums of 2019
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 Writer Edition Top Albums of 2018
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