Last year I discovered Tanzwut, and wrote about them a few times. Not only did I enjoy the music, but I found the whole concept interesting and amusing – medieval folk metal with massed bagpipes: what’s not to like? Anyone who was tempted to investigate and liked what they heard might also be interested in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Spotify'
Reggaeton
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Music
I found the entire short series of Latin Music USA on BBC Four to be greatly entertaining, but it also opened my ears to a few new sounds. Last week I went straight onto Spotify after watching the programme to look for Fania All Stars, Willie Colon, Eddie Palmieri and similar: this week it was [...]
The Decemberists
February 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
I had heard of the Decemberists, of course I had. I had even heard some of their stuff and seen them on TV, but I don’t think I ever really listened to them properly until tonight. I am now starting to think I have been missing out a bit.
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Suzi Quatro
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
Back to trivia even sooner than I expected… while ferretting around in the odd corners of Spotify tonight I learned something interesting. OK, maybe not interesting in the general definition, but I was interested.
Spongebob Squarepants
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
I have heard of Spongebob Squarepants but I don’t think I have ever seen it. Well, maybe a little bit while some young relative was watching it perhaps, but nothing I can remember. I have certainly not seen the film, but tonight I chanced upon the soundtrack album on Spotify. Brilliant stuff. Great tracks from [...]
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Seeking new sounds
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
Last week I read a little sort of review of the website Spotiseek in the Guardian. It is a website where you put in the name of an artist you like and it generates a 16-track Spotify playlist, which it calls a mix tape, based on that artist. The idea is that the list features [...]
The trouble with free?
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
I fired up the PC this evening and, as usual, the first thing I kicked off was Spotify. As it started I kept getting dialog boxes from my anti-virus software (AVG) warning me of a virus in Program Files\Spotify\Spotify.exe which it described as “Runtime packed themida” whatever the hell that means. I ticked the box [...]
So that was 2009
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Another year gone, another decade even. I can hardly get my head round how much has happened in the noughties, and since I didn’t start this blog until halfway through 2004 I would be hard-pressed to remember a lot of it anyway, though I do seem to recall getting married at some point. It is [...]
Shpongle
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Music
If Spotify didn’t exist then Spotinews wouldn’t exist. If Spotinews didn’t exist then I would probably never have heard of Shpongle nor got to hear their new album – Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland – and my life would be the poorer for it. It is like an ethnically-tinged version of Ozric Tentacles!
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Drums – an excuse for some gratuitous Shakira
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Music
I will be amazed if I have not already mentioned here how partial I am to drums. Not so much drum solos (though I am quite fond of them) but bands who have several drummers or percussionists in their line-up. Imagine then, how chuffed I was seeing the Decemberists on Later last week with most [...]
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