I was talking to a friend a few days ago about how it’s been quite hard to find any new music that really excites me these days. She happily mentioned this supposed study that supposedly revealed that our capacity and excitement for new music dips after the age of 24. I insist that I am not too […]
Read more "Too old for new music?"Happy Fourth of July to our friends across the pond! What’s more American than country music? Here’s a lovely performance of ‘Jackson’ by legendary country duo Johnny Cash and June Carter from 1967. The wonders of Youtube, ladies and gentlemen. And, just to tickle your earbuds a bit more, here’s a spine-tingling cover of the […]
Read more "Happy Fourth of July! Here’s some country music."This entry is a bit of a random one: there are a couple of songs that are really good but which have the misfortune of ending up in absolutely terrible films. Films generally love to jazz their cred up a bit by commissioning songs from hot indie/alternative/pop artists, but these deserve the prize of having […]
Read more "Songs I love, movies I hate"I was prowling the Stereogum website in search of some ideas for what to write about, and stumbled across their Album of the Week feature on How To Dress Well’s “What Is This Heart?” I reached this part of the write-up: Most of the time, the music parts and fades to the back when his voice […]
Read more "Fear, the critic and the musician: the Bermuda triangle of art and music"So apparently from the 6th of July this year the UK official singles chart will take into account statistics from streaming services such as Spotify, and the news is that Bastille’s ‘Pompeii’ (EH-EH-OH, EH-OH, EH-EH-OH, EH-OH … ring a bell?) is the most streamed song in the UK, with approximately ‘26.6 million streams on average per week’. That means that […]
Read more "I’ll stream it but I won’t buy it: Bastille and the charts"The premise is simple: I challenge myself to write something about music every day for the next 30 days at least, whether reviews, commentaries/columns/essays, or even just short, straightforward recommendations. It will happen whichever way it does. I promise nothing, and I can’t do everything, but I will do my best to come up with something […]
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METAKOUSTIK 