These days you can listen to music wherever and whenever you want to - on the radio, your computer, your iPod, or streamed on the web. And the diversity and sheer amount of music at your fingertips is incredible.
With all that music available, it's obvious that there's a lot of great music around that you've never heard about. But how do you find it? If you go jumping around the Internet looking for it, you're far more likely to end up with dirt than diamonds.
And that's where this blog comes in - great music you've never heard before. Unlike the vast majority of music you haven't heard, though, the music presented on
Likeable Music is actually
likeable. Some of the songs on this blog you'll start liking the first time you hear them, while other songs might need repeated listenings. But even if this blog gives you just one new favourite artist, or one new genre you want to find out more about, or even just a couple of great songs, it has fulfilled its mission.
So that's the purpose of the blog out of the way, but what kind of music will it fill up with? I'll try to cover as wide a field as possible, and feature both old and new music. From hip hop, pure pop, jazz, blues, soul, salsa and dancehall, to less familiar genres like Bollywood soundtracks, soca, raï, fado, grime, bachata and timba. And lots of other stuff that's just great music, regardless of time period and genre.
The first week there will be a new post every day Monday through Friday. After that, every Monday and Thursday I will write about either an album, a song, an artist or something completely else. All posts will include music samples to listen to (
if you like the music, please buy it!) and sometimes one or more videos, in addition to suggestions for what to listen to next.
At the bottom of each post are some buttons for you to play with. Depending on whether you liked the post and/or music, you can press either "Likeable", "Average" or "Blergh!" . And if you're a sharing person, you can even give me your (very welcome) feedback below each post.
