When I first started this website, almost twenty years ago, I was an obscure part of a community of amateur music review websites. Some only lasted a while, while some like www.markprindle.com gained notoriety. But in hindsight, the best site…
My favourite musical discovery of 2018 has been Nadia Reid. Reid is from Dunedin in the south of New Zealand, and ‘Richard’ is from her second album, 2017’s Preservation. Preservation was runner-up for album of the year in Mojo magazine,…
Congratulations to Rich and Tony who both scored 25/25 in last week’s music video quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the song based on the historical event that it profiles. I scored 19 The first few clues…
There’s recently been a study released, based on streaming data from Spotify, that indicates that most people gravitate towards music that was released in their early teens. Females favour music that they first heard at the age of 13, and…
Congratulations to everyone who scored 100% last week – Rich, Chris, J, Geoff, 2loud2old, and Tony. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the 1980s music video by the still. I scored 21/25, which was actually below the Sporcle…
There’s a stereotype in popular music of youth and charisma, but not everyone fits the mould. Here are five very talented individuals whose personal style choices are more suited to the public library than to the pop charts. Lisa Loeb…
I’ve already discussed HAIM recently on this blog, and I still find their sunny harmonies like musical comfort food, but I had a startling epiphany about them during the week that I wanted to share. Here’s the cover of the…
Congratulations to Aaron from who scored a perfect 20 in last week’s quiz. I think this week’s quiz will see a few full marks, but I wanted to feature it because it was so pretty. All you need to…
We’ve recently been away on a family road trip. My six year old is tolerant of different music, only once politely remarking that Steve Reich was “a bit boring”. But my three year old is fixated on children’s music and…
Congratulations to Tony and to 2Loud2OldMusic, who both scored full marks in last week’s debut album quiz. This week we’re looking at the other end of artists’ careers – the compilation. Can you name the artists that released iconically titled…
