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

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...

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

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...