I see Greg’s name, I click.

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I’m back on my learning guitar jag. This set of theory videos is great.

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Handy to connect your listening history to an LLM to generate some custom playlists.

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Here is the 2024 edition of my yearly Spotify playlist.

You can also check out my previous editions.

And here is my Last.fm listening report for the year.

🔗 ∙ Tagged in Music, Recommendations.

One feature Apple Music has that Spotify doesn’t is Smart Playlists. They are handy for honing in on favourite tracks for specific artists or genres.

I knocked up this smart playlist that I shuffle to unearth underappreciated tracks in my library.

It’s been throwing up some good gear.

🔗 ∙ Tagged in Music, Software.

I’m working on reading more photography books.

So, yesterday, I grabbed Colin Greenwood’s How to Disappear while I was out and about¹.

Colin gets some great candids of the recording and touring experience.

His collection of photos is another ode to the power of a plastic Yashica T4.

🔗 ∙ Tagged in Books, Music, Photography.

I’ve used this a few times now and it’s pretty ace.

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Six hours of SG lore for all you Knights of the Soundtable.

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I make a new Spotify playlist at the beginning of every year, and I keep adding songs I enjoy throughout the year.

Now that it’s September the 2023 edition is nice and ripe.

You can also listen to the 2022, 2021, and 2020 editions.

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Rick Beato is building an archive of interviews with some legendary musicians.

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I’d listen to either of these blokes read the phone book.

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They go deep and I’m here for it.

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the most canonical paths across the shared surface of the world’s music, starting at the point of some particular artist and going…outward, every other direction at once.

I’ve enjoyed the playlists generated by this so far.

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Butch talking through his recording process on Smashing Pumpkins albums and Nirvana’s Nevermind.

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Ian Leslie:

Paul McCartney has been writing and performing music more or less continuously since 1956. That’s sixty-four years.

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