What have you been listening to this week?

A lot of Against Me. Just a YouTube mix. Listened to their first album all the way through. Just an AM kind of week. Black Me Out is a great song.

I've recently started listening to vaporwave, which is a music genre I didn't know existed. It's weird. I'm not sure why I like it, I could easily see the bulk of it being used for hold music, but it's great for concentration at work. The Spotify link for my favorite playlist of it is here

I've been listening to The Knife while I study which I've been doing all this week. Love me some Swedish synth-pop.

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Ive been listening to a lot of TTNG lately.

His Master's Voice in auduobook format. Decent hard science fiction with lots of interesting philosophy. I found the focus on nuclear proliferation and weapons research a bit dated, though appropriate given the time it was written in the late 60s. I normally can't stand older than a couple decades at most.

In terms of Podcasts I've been on my usual rotation of Waking Up, Hello Internet, No Such Thing As a Fish, Hardcore History and Late Night Linux.

In terms of music... It's weird how I grew up looking up artists, torrenting albums and organizing my music collection which all just feels arcane and labor intensive now. Like someone with a CD or Vinyl collection. No, I use Spottily exclusively of late which is absolutely fantastic for having virtually everything at your fingertips and discoverability especially, but there's something missing. I don't know what I'm listening to anymore. I either just shuffle my library or listen to Discover Weekly but the vast majority of my library is just stuff I add to it by ear, not knowing what it is or who made it...

...so I just put my whole library in a playlist.

C418 and Jeremy Blake.

I put on a classic folk playlist at work and have been enjoying it. I highly doubt the majority of songs would be considered 'classic folk', but it a nice change from our usual classic rock playlists.

Metric albums and random old Rihanna.

I just got home from seeing the great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen in concert. Fantastic show! His band is pretty much a jazz quintet (two horns, upright bass, piano and drums) and I heard at least one Art Blakey cover and another jazz standard that I couldn't quite place, maybe a Wayne Shorter song or something like that. The opening act was a harp player named Brandee Younger, and she was also great. It was just her and an upright bassist. It was hypnotic stuff.

New Death Grips album, various jazz and ska on spotify, and a little bit of dad rock (AC/DC)

I’ve been listening to Mac Demarco. I especially like Another One and Chamber of Reflection!

I've been listening to Cranes, one of my favorite shoegaze bands. Also some youtube J-Pop/Anime mixes.

I've been branching out with Spotify & YouTube Music recommendations, found a few new earworms and rediscovered some old ones. Nothing super adventurous, but they're something different from what I usually listen to.

• The Offspring - Gone Away
• Mother Mother - Verbatim
• Silent Hill - Room of Angel
• Lincoln - Saint Bernard
• Jack Stauber - Oh Klahoma

I've been listening to G. Yamazawa this week. I'm no hip hop aficionado, but I really like his work and feel like he's underrated.

Defected Radio

Been enjoying the newest weeks more than 1 thru 90

Lot of tech-house and into techno. a good bit of Dirty Bird. Its been an interesting transition going from metal to dubstep to then wind up enjoying house music and techno the most.

Dawes’ new album Passwords

Lauren Bousfield, Run The Jewels, BROCKHAMPTON and Girl Talk.

I've been listening to a lot of Dismemberment Plan and LCD Soundsystem this week

For some reason I've been listening to an abnormally large amount of music in the last few days, most notably a few albums:

• From the Fires, by Greta Van Fleet (as well as When the Curtain Falls, a single by the same band)
• Underneath the Radar, by Underworld (my favourite songs being Underneath the Radar, Call Me No. 1, and The God Song)
• Stadium Arcadium, by Red Hot Chili Peppers

and one Spotify playlist, Synthwave from Space. It's a pretty nice, atmospheric little playlist. I particularly like Public Service Broadcasting, whose song 'Sputnik' is in that playlist.

I've been listening to some The Gathering, the singer is awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9YrbCfjPw

I've not been listening to music on my way to work, for a change. Instead I listened to "Artemis", the new book by Andy Weir, the guy who wrote "The Martian". This one takes place on a city on the moon. I am halfway through by now, the story is interesting and the science is sound.

This great roots reggae podcast: https://balaganjah.podomatic.com/

I listen to a lot of reggae lately. I love the album Exodus of Bob Marley. Other than that I mostly listen to Spotify mixes. I used to curate my music quite vigorously, but I just gave up on my collection of Ogg Vorbis files obtained via youtube-dl (literally deleted it) and went fully Spotify. After all, holding on to things that thightly is not really a pleasant experience.

Nicolas Jaar - Sirens