I haven’t listened a ton of music this year. But What I have been listening to are podcasts about music. I’ve really been enjoying the third season of KCRW’s Lost Notes, which focuses solely on the year in music in 1980. Episodes include The Sugarhill Gang, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba, Ian Curtis, and Grace Jones, and give serious, much-deserved consideration to the kinds of stories that often shrink to the point of nothingness when you zoom out on the timeline of an artists’ life. I’m already hardwired to love niche, narrow narrative framing like this, but a big part of why it succeeds for me is host
📞 Secret World No.7: Lost notes
📞 Secret World No.7: Lost notes
📞 Secret World No.7: Lost notes
I haven’t listened a ton of music this year. But What I have been listening to are podcasts about music. I’ve really been enjoying the third season of KCRW’s Lost Notes, which focuses solely on the year in music in 1980. Episodes include The Sugarhill Gang, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba, Ian Curtis, and Grace Jones, and give serious, much-deserved consideration to the kinds of stories that often shrink to the point of nothingness when you zoom out on the timeline of an artists’ life. I’m already hardwired to love niche, narrow narrative framing like this, but a big part of why it succeeds for me is host