Blog – The Kirkham Report

TKR – The Past, The Present…and the FUTURE

April 25, 2022 TC Kirkham Announcements, Blog, Charts, COLUMNS, Eurovision, Music, News, PNRNetworks, Pop Culture, Records, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, Weblogs

So over the past several months, I’ve been really thinking about what I have always wanted my music site to be, and over the last couple of weeks, I’ve sat down and made some notes about things I want to change, things I want to upgrade, things I want to introduce and more. And I thought I’d talk a little bit about it with you. First off, I will be cleaning up the charts area of the site. I was recently looking at things, and as cool as it is to finally have (almost) all my years of personal charts

“Shop Safe” act could end up utterly destroying the online reselling community – Speak up NOW!

September 29, 2021 TC Kirkham Blog, BREAKING NEWS, COLUMNS, Copyright, Legal Issues, Music, News, PNRNetworks, Pop Culture, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, Web/Tech, Weblogs

RED ALERT! CALL TO ACTION! If you are part of the online reseller community, or regularly make purchases online from merchants in the Discogs Marketplace (or ANY other platform that specializes in reselling), it’s time to MOBILIZE! And you CANNOT afford to take this lightly! A new bill sponsored by Rep. Gerald Nadler (D-NY), called the “Shop Safe” act, could and according to most experts on the subject WILL destroy the online sellers community as we all now know it. It’s long and confusing in places, but it focuses on burden of proof for not selling “counterfeit mark” goods, and

TKR on YouTube: Christmas Music On The Radio – A Neck Pain Old Man Rant!

December 2, 2020 TC Kirkham Blog, COLUMNS, Goofy Items, Memory Lane, Music, PNRNetworks, Pop Culture, Radio, Records, Songs, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, TKR On YouTube, Vinyl Collecting, Vinyl Community, Weblogs

You know something? My neck is still killing me and after a week of delays, I’m tired of waiting, but I’ve got a few complaints about the radio does Christmas music these days…time for TC’s Old Man Rant on the subject…heh heh…

IT’S COMING!!! TKR’s premiere coverage of Junior Eurovision starts November 1!

October 7, 2020 TC Kirkham Announcements, Blog, Eurovision, Eurovision Songbytes, Fundraising, Junior Eurovision, Music, News, PNRNetworks, PNRNetworks Patron Circle, Pop Culture, Radio, Records, Television, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, Weblogs

As you know, I began covering the long-running Eurovision Song Contest in 2017. a year after it first began screening for U.S. audiences, and have covered every year since, including massive coverage of this year’s cancelled show and all the cool specials that came out of that cancellation. Now, beginning this year, TKR’s coverage of the Eurovision franchise is expanding! Beginning November 1, TKR will launch its first-ever coverage of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. This contest is open to songwriters between the ages of 8-15 years of age, and the performers also have to be within that age frame.

TKR’s full reboot happens July 1 – here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming

June 24, 2020 TC Kirkham Announcements, Blog, Fundraising, Music, Music Video, News, Planet BiblioMusica, PNRNetworks, Pop Culture, Radio, Record Stores, Records, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, Weblogs

On July 1, The Kirkham Report takes the next step into our future, with a completely rebooted site. I mean, well, NO, it’s probably NOT going to look much different – I like the theme I’m using on it now, but I’ll be adding a TON of new things to the pages as we go along. What WILL be changing the most is the content – In addition to my #1 focus, my music charts and preferences, I’m going to be introducing over a dozen new featured columns, each with a particular focus. These columns will be posted every day

“CHART”-ING A COURSE FOR THE FUTURE II

June 16, 2020 TC Kirkham Announcements, Blog, Eurovision, Fundraising, Music, Patreon Campaign, Planet BiblioMusica, PNRNetworks, PNRNetworks Patron Circle, Pop Culture, Record Stores, Records, Song Of The Day, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, Weblogs

Man I love bad puns, don’t I? Heh heh… Over the past week, since I made the decision to incorporated our “Planet BiblioMusica” blog here on TKR, I’ve been thinking about some stuff, and some ideas for some future columns and projects I wanted to do, and how I can make TKR a “must-see” site for music fans like myself. Stuff I would want to look at if I were a fan of music. So in addition to the original bad-pun-titled column from about 18 months ago, this is what I am thinking about… Reintroducing the “Song Of The Day”

PASSAGES: Joao Gilberto, father of Bossa Nova, dead at 88

July 6, 2019 TC Kirkham Blog, Music, News, Passages, Pop Culture, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, Weblogs

Brazilian artist Joao Gilberto, who in the 1950s pioneered the new latin sound called bossa nova, has died at his home in Rio de Janeiro, he was 88 years old. Gilberto has often been given primary credit from many music historians as writing the first song in a new style which would later be referred to as the bossa nova, or new beat. The pioneering sound drew on Brazil’s samba tradition but was typically performed at much lower volume, and eliminating the heavy beats of drums and other percussion typically found in samba music. According to some, the jazz guitarist

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING! The TKR Classic Charts are coming online!

May 28, 2019 TC Kirkham Announcements, Blog, Charts, Fundraising, Patreon Campaign, Pop Culture, The Kirkham Report, Thoughts and Musings, TKR Classic Charts, Weblogs

You know, it has taken me almost a decade to get to this point, and I apologize for that. It’s only because I wanted to present things in the best possible way, and I’ve been trying to come up with a cool and fancy way to bring my old classic charts online. First, I thought it would be cool to reenter them on new grids with cool new logos and such…but that proved to be impossibly time consuming, especially with all I have going throughout the PNRNetworks family. Then, I thought, i’ll scan the charts in and use OCR to

ESCountdown 2019: #36 – “Limits” by Paenda, Austria

April 12, 2019 TC Kirkham Blog, Eurovision, Music, Radio

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! Welcome to my ESCountdown 2019, presented by eCinemaOne, The Kirkham Report, and Planet BiblioMusica! Between April 7 and May 10, I will countdown my picks of the entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019! There are 41 countries participating this year, and we’ll bring you each and every entry from them all! Last year, when we first launched our ESC coverage, I did the songs in random order. This year, I’m changing things up a bit. Due to copyright issues with the way I did my TKR videos on YouTube, my ESC show last

TKR TIP SHEET – Week ending April 13 2019

April 12, 2019 TC Kirkham Blog, Music, The Kirkham Report, TKR Tip Sheet, Weblogs

TKR RADIOHITZONE – ADDED THIS WEEK The following releases were added to the TKR RadioHitzOne Spotify playlist this week: CLOSING IN – AFTRHR SOS – AVICII FEATURING ALOE BLACK BE THE ONE – CHEAT CODES WITH KASKADE BROKEN AND BEAUTIFUL – KELLY CLARKSON BACK HOME – LYRIC DUBEE I’VE GOTTA BE ME – PALOMA FAITH DANCING ON MY OWN – ELLE FANNING LOVE ME NOW – GROMEE FEATURING DEVVON TERRELL & WURLD SHE GOT ME – LUCA HANNI COOL – JONAS BROTHERS SCREAM – SERGEY LAZAREV OLD TOWN ROAD – LIL NAS X FEATURING BILLY RAY CYRUS SOLDI – MAHMOOD