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Writing tagged Music

  1. Very beautiful

    On listening to some 1967 recordings of John Peel’s show The Perfumed Garden.

  2. Buy on Bandcamp today

    Today, Friday 20th March, Bandcamp are waiving fees so more money goes to artists. Here’s some music there that I love.

  3. The 1959 Project

    I’m enjoying The 1959 Project, daily posts about the New York jazz scene in that year.

  4. IDLES

    No weeknotes because I had a cold. But I listened to IDLES and they’re good.

  5. w/e 14 October 2018

    ‘Can You Feel It’ and some re-discovered house music; ‘A Star is Born’, ‘Phonogram: The Singles Club’; an acting class; ‘Killing Eve’; and Mark Kozelek at Union Chapel.

  6. Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston

    My thoughts on the book about 4AD records, plus a 556 track playlist.

  7. w/e 10 June 2018

    People rediscovering Crazy Walls and Today’s Guardian; Half Man Half Biscuit; and finishing ‘Uncharted’ 1.

  8. How Soon is Now by Richard King

    A few notes about, and quotes from, the book, plus a long Spotify playlist of tracks mentioned.

  9. f/e 13 May 2018

    ‘Fortitude’ season two, 1980s ‘Top of the Pops’, and reading Iain M. Banks’ ‘Consider Phlebas’.

  10. Sara Renberg - ‘Night Sands’

    I’m enjoying this album which possibly isn’t like That Dog. And I liked Leif Vollebekk too.

  11. Run out of metaphors

    On Phoebe Bridgers’ album ‘Stranger in the Alps’ and comparing some of the lyrics to Mark Kozelek.

  12. Mini music genres: UK music press

    Some songs that mention the ‘NME’, ‘Melody Maker’, etc.

  13. It is very nice

    I made an iTunes playlist of complete albums and EPs and found all their cover art.

  14. Reading about dancing about architecture

    Trying to find music sites to read, and realising I don’t want to read any of them.

  15. Famous exes updated

    The mini music genres post about Famous Exes has new songs.

  16. Mini music genres: Famous exes

    Some songs about past loves who are now famous.

  17. The Sound and the Fury playlist

    A playlist for the BBC’s series ‘The Sound and the Fury’ on 20th century classical music.

  18. Mike Johnston’s Jazz Starter Kit playlist

    A Spotify playlist for people who don’t know much about jazz but are interested.

  19. Year-by-year playlist

    I made a playlist with a song named after every year since 1945.

  20. ‘Rip It Up And Start Again’ playlist

    I made a 14 hour Spotify playlist of the music from Simon Reynolds’ book.

  21. ‘Always Magic in the Air’ Spotify playlist

    A Spotify playlist of songs discussed in Ken Emerson’s book ‘Always Magic in the Air’.

  22. ‘Always Magic in the Air’ by Ken Emerson

    A review and/or notes on this book about the music that came out of New York’s Brill Building in the 1950s and 60s.

  23. Top Tunes 2009

    My favourite music of 2009.

  24. The £10,000 playlist

    Why do we need a collection of MP3s when we can stream everything? What does that collection mean to us?

  25. Chart Hits 83

    Some of my favourite tunes from a cassette compilation I had when I was twelve. And why mainstream nostalgia makes us neglect things.