Music Blogs

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• Why Do I Like What I Like? — Why do certain songs hit me so hard? I trace novelty, surprise and creativity to explain why The Preatures' Is This How
• An Awesome Wave of New Music — Music is my addiction, so I catalog recent Amazon MP3 purchases and what I added to my Amazon Cloud. My February 2013 ne
• Center Of It All — New album alert, Center Of It All is finally out and ready to download on CD Baby and stream on Spotify, Apple Music and
• Finding My Muse (Score) — Surprise find: switching from Sonar to Studio One pulled me into music notation. After a Presonus Black Friday deal I bo
• Mendelssohn & Monet — What makes Mendelssohn sound like Tuscany? I rediscovered free music notation software MuseScore 4, loaded a shared scor
• Buh-bye, Spotify — Enough was enough. I quit Spotify at the end of 2024 after learning they commission stock music for playlist priority an
• Heard in the delivery room — Ever wondered what actually gets played in the delivery room? My Music League round asked for songs from your birth year
• Driving songs — Nothing beats a perfect driving playlist on a sunlit highway. In this Music League round we each submitted two driving s
• At bat — Want stadium-ready walk-up song ideas that aren't just jock jams? In this Music League at bat post I pick Black Sabbath'
• Friends of Jerry — Who knew a Grateful Dead cover band would pull me to Ukie Club? Friends of Jerry at Ukie Club impressed with over two ho
• Forever, I’ve Been Being Born — Missed a comeback? I only found Jesse Sykes' new album months late. After 14 years her collaboration with Phil Wandscher
• extm3u.pl — Tired of handcrafting playlists? I made extm3u.pl to generate extended .m3u playlists from a folder and print to stdout
• Truth be told, we never loved you... — What happens when the Charlottetown Festival cuts six orchestra jobs from Anne of Green Gables The Musical? I argue the
• What we lost when we lost cassette tapes
• Music is just organized noise...
• “If one of us is suffering then none of us are free...”
• Just a perfick day — A perfick Friday, Lou Reed on the radio, and a rediscovered 1915 post office turned café in Bagenalstown. Consider this
• Moments in Music — Moments in Music, making music physical again. For my Dot Dot Dot show in Sheffield I turned three tracks from local ban
• Cassette Tapes — Surprising eBay find of a slim metal Sony Walkman rekindled my love for cassette tapes. I share my hunt for an affordabl
• Nature and Music — A morning with ravens and Vaughan Williams broke a depressive spell. I describe stepping into sunlight, watching playful
• Own Your Music — When a favorite game soundtrack vanished from Apple Music I found I never owned it. I show how to identify Apple Music p
• Shit! Goddamn! Sing sweary songs and jam — Ready for a filthy jukebox? I’ve rounded up bawdy blues, sweary songs and NSFW tracks from LaVern Baker to Lords of Acid
• Serving Kant — Curious how a four letter word shook Eurovision 2025? I track Malta’s entry Serving, originally titled Kant, and why the
• “Smut” — What makes Tom Lehrer's "Smut" still land after 60 years? I trace the song's origin on That Was the Week That Was, unpac
• 6 Weird Pop Songs, Visualized — Curious how pop hits look as song lyric visualizations? I built SongSim, an interactive web app that creates self-simila
• How Rashid Vally showed us the way — Remember the smell of vinyl and incense on Market Street? In this piece I trace Rashid Vally’s journey from the Kort Str
• Hearing songs again for the first time — Sometimes a song you’ve heard a hundred times suddenly feels new. I wrote about rediscovering music, memory, and the str
• Electroacoustic music + dogs — A curious, playful exploration of sound, listening, and unexpected inspiration connecting experimental music, animals, a
• Dayum — Single perfect bass drop rewires entire day chemistry instantly. Track alchemy transforms mundane commute into private r
• Its because, I'm the lead singer of my band! — Solo adult channels garage band delusions into real projects. DIY punk survives rent checks, heartbreak, adulting's slow
• Mac Miller: Swimming — Mac Miller's Swimming album reflection: addiction mirror, late genius. Personal parallels hit harder years later.
• Millennial Energy — Nostalgic Y2K playlist fuels work sprints. Early-2000s pop-punk unlocks forgotten productivity flow states.
• She Likes Listening To Punk Rock — Partner's punk gateway mixtape sparks shared concerts, record hunts. Music bridges generational tastes through live ener
• What Music Ownership Means to Me — Streaming betrayal: algorithms bury owned albums. Vinyl/CD rituals preserve artist connection lost in subscription conve
• Singing with nightingales — Nature immersion: singing alongside nightingales connects ancient human voice to wild symphony in quiet countryside mome