Friday, December 30th, 2011

2011, My Year In Music

Written by Matthew Pennell
Album covers

Back at the junction of 2010 and 2011, for whatever reason, I neglected to record a retrospective of the previous year’s music-listening activity – or indeed, any sort of look back at the preceding twelve months. These gaps in recorded history niggle at me; like a lot of anally-retentive computer nerds I am an inveterate… [read more]

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Discovering new music: TheSixtyOne and Mixest review

Written by Matthew Pennell

60 gigabytes, 28 days, 10,000 songs. My iTunes library is daunting, and yet all too often there is nothing that I want to listen to. Where can you turn to discover new music? Mixest Mixest is a cleanly designed, beautifully simple, single page music player offering a selection of tracks culled from indie music blogs… [read more]