Category: Music

  • Last.fm 2017 Listening Trends

    Last.fm 2017 Listening Trends

    This year my music listening is under-counted because of a few factors. 1) Spotify scrobbling stopped working at work, 2) I listened to a lot of bandcamp at work (not scrobbled), and 3) for K-Pop I mostly just watch it on Youtube (not scrobbled). That said, I have been listening to music slightly more often.…

  • First Impressions of Trust Issues by The PDX Broadsides

    At the time that I’m writing this, I’ve had Trust Issues for a few days. I signed up for the Kickstarter campaign after The Doubleclicks mentioned them. I then went to the PDX Broadsides’ bandcamp page and ended up buying the entire back catalog. After having heard the album a few times, here are my…

  • Last.fm 2016 Listening Trends

    For now, my music listening continues to be in decline relative to earlier in my life. Because the babies are often napping, I don’t have music playing throughout the day. And if I’m playing video games I’m usually not listening to music so I can stream. That said, when I do listen to Spotify at…

  • Tomahawk – unify all your cloud and local audio

    Tomahawk – unify all your cloud and local  audio

    It’s been a long time since I last took a look at an innovative music player. Back in 2006 I explored Songbird ) and in 2008 I looked at some of the unique features over two posts: Taking Another Look at Songbird and Play the Web. The ability to grab MP3s off of sites, in particular…

  • Last.fm 2015 Listening Trends

    Last.fm 2015 Listening Trends

    Lots of artists made their spot because I attended a concert or discovered them this year and got very enthusiastic about listening to this new artist. There are also lots of Spotify scrobbles, but not as many as there would be if work’s firewall didn’t keep scrobbles from being counted. Artists Anberlin (427 listens) Fall…

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q4

    Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q4

    This was not a big quarter for listening to music for me. That’s mostly because Sam and Stella were born and so I didn’t have much ability to listen to music as I needed to be able to hear if they were crying or if someone needed help with them. According to last.fm I went…

  • 2015 In Music (According to Spotify – Last.fm report is later this year …. after 2015 is actually over….)

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q3

    Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q3

    After getting to MGMT alphabetically, I tired of going through the list alphabetically. While I have rediscovered some music, I wanted to go back to my auto-playlists which would give me my favorites. I could always get back to going through things alphabetically in the future. One way to accomplish what I wanted was to…

  • Concerts 2015: Lionize and The Protomen

    Concerts 2015: Lionize and The Protomen

    Concerts are certainly a funny bit of entertainment. When you go see a movie, you are going because you like the director or the actors or the idea sounded interesting. You see that movie and that’s the end of it. The same holds true for Broadway shows or Operas. But when you attended a concert,…

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q2

    Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q2

    1. Anberlin (171) – Almost the same number of listens as my top artist last quarter (179 for I Fight Dragons). As usual, I continue to enjoy their music and have grown to appreciate some of the ones I didn’t like before. And some of the older stuff seems trite in comparison. 2. Jim Guthrie…

  • Concerts 2015: Weird Al Yankovic

    Concerts 2015: Weird Al Yankovic

    I’ve been a fan of Weird Al for about 17 years. I used to have the Disney special Weird Al Going Home, but unfortunately, I lent it to someone and never got it back. Yet, in all the time, I’d never seen a Weird Al concert live. Finally, Weird Al came to Baltimore as part…

  • Discovering Pogo

    Discovering Pogo

    This may not be your thing. I’m pretty sure my wife will hate it, but I think Pogo’s work is a perfect example of why culture needs to be free and with less onerous copyright rules. I’m pretty sure all of this is within fair use, but it would take a legal fight for him…

  • Scarlett dances to the new Panic! At the Disco Song

  • Concerts 2015: Anamanaguchi

    Concerts 2015: Anamanaguchi

    Originally my first concert of 2015 was going to be a little later in the year, but with Danielle away for the weekend, the email letting me know about a concert in just a few days seemed quite fortuitous. I’d had a couple chances to see Anamanaguchi in concert, but the timing was never right.…

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q1

    1. I Fight Dragons (179 plays) – Over this quarter I have continued to really enjoy the B Side to The Near Future and listened to them a lot after work. Scarlett likes quite a few of those songs as well. 2. Anberlin (74 plays) – For the concert last year I put all their albums on my…