Music

April 11, 2019• Music

Music Listening

I’m a little bit concerned that the way I listen to music is about to fundamentally change, and I’m not sure how it’s...

January 3, 2019• Internet, Music

A few thoughts on the new difficulties faced by HMV. In part this is response to some utter nonsense I’ve read online, and some of...

December 19, 2016• Music

It may seem unlikely that I’m writing about the UK singles charts, on the basis that I’m not sure that I could name a single...

August 5, 2016• Music

I have fairly broad musical tastes – it’s why I struggle when people ask me what kind of music I’m into. A couple of...

May 12, 2016• Music

That’ll teach me for writing this too quickly. I based this on a Digital Music News report which was published Wednesday evening UK...

February 8, 2016• Music

I like making the odd video, and invariable, I prefer to use music on the soundtrack. Given that I’m not about to commission my own...

December 8, 2015• Audio, Internet, Music

Back over the summer, Amazon launched its Prime Music offering in the UK. Anybody who pays Amazon £79 a year, for it’s free next day...

October 14, 2015• Music

Here’s an oddity. Music Week has published a list of albums that Google Play Music says represent the volume of streams that albums...

September 6, 2015• Music

Note: See multiple updates on this story at the end. I use Google Play Music as my primary music service. That is, Google Play Music hosts...

August 19, 2015• Music

Yesterday I got into a bit of a discussion with James Cridland on Facebook about the rights and wrongs of how services like Spotify...