This is a question I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It’s come up in a few recent discussions, but in truth, it’s always running quietly in the background of my mind whenever I am curating for a client or project. It’s also something David Byrne explores beautifully in How Music Works ; in fact, it’s arguably the premise of the entire book. Byrne proposes that music, from its earliest forms, was never created in a vacuum; it was always shaped by the environment it was m

[ a roundup of some of my favorite new & emerging female voices - solo acts and female-fronted outfits - from Canada, The Americas, France, and the UK, spanning indie/alt-pop, singer-songwriters, Country/Americana, and R&B. Single appearances for most, with double features from a few ]

[ a selection of standout tracks across the 50+ new albums released in July and August. New voices & old, from pop to Latin-urban to...

[ coming in on time for once! Junes's music roundup. like May, it's new-release heavy with a spattering of some older cuts (and double...

Just for fun, I set a small challenge with myself to come up with a list of my top 5 all-time summer albums. Coming as no surprise (for...

[ once again coming in almost a week late, May's music roundup. new release heavy with a spattering of some older cuts. nods to many...

[ Closing out April almost a week late with a roundup of 100 tracks I found myself enjoying - personal favorites as well as those...

[ March was packed with new music. Closing it out (two days late) with a roundup—favorite tracks across (most of) the releases from the...

[ and just like that, another month of this not-so-new year has wrapped! as with last month's roundup, february's tracklist is pretty...

[ last month, I hosted a get-together for a small group of friends that I very appropriately named "coffee & color" as we enjoyed good...

[ a very mixed-bag favorites roundup of what came through my headphones or speakers this past month; very genre- and decade-diverse, a...

[ it's not every year that I do a round-up "best-of" playlist, but as 2024 was truly an exceptional year in music, there was no question...

[ an ordered-track playlist of some of my favorite holiday tracks - classics, covers & originals - to kick off the season ]

[ a short roundup of tracks that I've had in heavy rotation this past month; genre-spanning new releases that quickly became...

[ as "busy season" grows increasingly more so, I am perpetually behind in my personal curation & playlist shares; neverless...here is a...

[ here I am again, a few weeks - nearly a month - behind; but as they say...better late than never. in honor of the grey, rain-filled...

[ the next in my playlist lineup, a few weeks overdue, due to my summer travels; a roundup of some songs I've been enjoying over the past...

[summer, but make it disco (or; disco, but make it summer; either way you swing it, about 1.4 hours of summer disco vibes to get you...

[ to appropriately celebrate the return of weekly playlists after a (mini) pause, and to nod to the season (especially with the present...

As a follow-up to last week's post - and because not too much of interest happened over these past 7 days (and also because, well, I just...