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Follow-ups
Some recent-ish news about subjects previously featured in this blog… KW Glee, who blew us away with their performance with the KW Symphony earlier this year, proved that performance was no fluke as...
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Spotify: Dipping a foot in the stream
Thanks to their 0.99 cents for three months offer, I’ve been trying out Spotify Premium for a few weeks. Here are my inconclusive conclusions about it so far. What is Spotify? It’s a streaming music...
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Rock of ages
At a recent dinner with friends, the opinion came up again that aging rock bands should just give it up, already, by age 60. This is a pretty popular opinion, with a long history (starting with the...
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Chasing the original high
Just let me feel the rush like the first night Wanna breathe it out cause I’m going out my mind Gotta feel the touch like the first time Cause I’m Chasing the original high …. I’m trying to buy a fix...
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Songs of 2015
That I can rather easily put together a list of recent songs that I liked is certainly a change from my usual of being steeped in the music of the past. I can, of course, attribute much of this to one...
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The Who Hits 50 (or so)
The Who’s “long good-bye” tour was extended even further when Roger Daltrey came down with viral meningitis last year, forcing all fall 2015 shows to be rescheduled for spring 2016. For my Toronto...
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Sounds of 2016
My opinion of this year’s top music? That I probably didn’t hear most of it. Last year, under Adam Lambert’s Spotify / Twitter guidance, I actually heard a fair amount of the top 40. This year Adam had...
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Lowest of the Low live at Maxwell’s
I went to see Lowest of the Low in concert again on January 20. That ties them with The Who, Bob Geldof, U2, and Sting as the artists I’ve seen live most often: three times each. If I keep going back...
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Stuff I learned from podcasts this week
Actually, by now it’s stuff I learned last week, or the week before that… But I still find it worth knowing! You’re going to bullshit yourself regardless, so you might as well put it to good use!...
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The music of 2023 wasn’t
Of 2023. Meaning, this year I spent most of my time listening to music I already own, rather than discovering new sounds on streaming services or radio. So not that much of it was music released in...
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