The Lost Art Of Listening·Mar 7, 2021Calling it out: women are making better music than menAccording to definition, a troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350)…
The Lost Art Of Listening·Mar 5, 2021The Art of Longevity: a podcastTo hear the podcast choose on of the various services:
The Lost Art Of Listening·Feb 10, 2021The Cure took Glastonbury 2019, let’s hope both return soonOh Glastonbury. Cancelled again. One begins to wonder whether…no, no, no. Let’s not go there. Glastonbury will return in 2022 as part of…
The Lost Art Of Listening·Dec 17, 2020Happy Holidays USA or Merry Christmas UK? Who does Christmas songs best?Every year without fail, I make December an all Christmas songs affair. Never before December 1st of course, and never after the 26th, but…
The Lost Art Of Listening·Nov 29, 2020Sonos Radio HD— has a third way to listen just arrived?The pandemic-induced lockdown created a listening boom for traditional radio, along with an uptick in the streaming of more comforting…A response icon1A response icon1
The Lost Art Of Listening·Oct 29, 2020MUSIC FILM REVIEW: PHIL LYNOTT: SONGS FOR WHILE I’M AWAYOctober 29, 2020
The Lost Art Of Listening·Oct 21, 2020Is high definition audio ready to re-invent music (again?)According to a growing community of audiophiles, we are all being short-changed by the current wave of digital music. Since the first…A response icon2A response icon2
The Lost Art Of Listening·Oct 9, 2020Thank you for the music: paying more attentionBack when we used to attend live shows (it’s coming back, don’t worry, eventually, I hope) how often did you find yourself at a gig and…
The Lost Art Of Listening·Oct 6, 2020National Album Day 2020 Long Read: The excess of the 80s produced monster pop albums that many…I was just up in Dundee, Scotland, where I found myself stopping off for a few moments at a record shop (Assai Records, 33 and 1/3rd Union…
The Lost Art Of Listening·Sep 28, 2020Up Next: The lost art of the song segueI remember when Beats first launched it’s pre Apple-Music service back in 2014. The vernacular was very much about human curation over…