Currently listening to … Ozarker from Israel Nash 🎶 Listen on Spotify

Currently listening to … In Time by The Emerald Dawn 🎶 I’ve followed this band since seeing them perform at a gig in a friend’s garden last year. Listen to the single on Spotify or catch the whole album on Bandcamp. In Time by The Emerald Dawn

Currently listening to … Status Quo was the first band I saw many decades ago and I’m still listening and enjoying them after all this time, despite there only being Francis Rossi left of the original “Frantic Four.” This is the new release of a live concert from 2010, with …

Currently listening to the four singles taken from the new album, Carolyn’s Boy from Darius Rucker planned for 6th October. I looking forward to listing to the rest of the album. “I wanted to name the record Carolyn’s Boy because Mom never got to see any of my success,” Rucker offered in the …

Currently listening to … Threnody For A Dead Queen from Comedy of Errors. Threnody For A Dead Queen by Comedy Of Errors 🎶

Currently listening to … But Here We Are from Foo Fighters. I think it’ll need a couple of listens before I make my mind up. Listen on Spotify. 🎶

I enjoyed the first episode of “The Gallows Pole” on the BBC yesterday. It’s the tale of the rise of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. Set in the moorland hills of 18th Century Yorkshire, the drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley as he assembles a gang of weavers and …

Currently listening to … Mirror to the Sky from Yes. Really enjoying this album. Listen on Spotify. 🎶

Currently listening to … The Clockwork Saga from Gandalf’s Fist. This album is available on Bandcamp as a combined 5 act adventure, encompassing all songs from “The Clockwork Fable” (2016) and “The Clockwork Prologue” (2019) Albums in full narrative order. Links …

Currently listening to … First Two Pages of Frankenstein by The National. This is the first proper album from The National since 2017’s Sleep Well Beast. It’s worth a close listen. Listen on Spotify 🎶 First Two Pages of Frankenstein by The National

Currently listening to … Fuse by Everything But The Girl. This is the first album from EBTG in 24 years - it was worth the wait! Listen on Spotify 🎶

Currently listening to … Multitudes from Feist. Listen on Spotify 🎶

Roon—Not Only For Audiophiles Part 1

Why invest in Roon when Apple’s Music (the app, not the service) and Spotify are “free?” I wanted to use Apple Music to bring all my music into one place, consisting of over 2,000 albums I’ve ripped or purchased that sat on a Synology NAS and music from Apple’s streaming service. …

Listening to … Dub No Frontiers by Adrian Sherwood This was recommended by i newspaper’s Ian Dunt, who said: Really well thought-through collection by British producer Adrian Sherwood, who challenges the male-dominated world of reggae with a female-only album. That’s laudable, …

One of the things I really appreciate about roon is the discovery tab that surfaces music in your library that you haven’t listened to for a while. This is today’s: 🎶