Music

Albums, live shows, and playlists worth remembering.

Building the perfect focus playlist

How I assemble instrumental sets that keep me in flow for hours.

The case for seeing live music in a room that fits a hundred people.

What a turntable taught me about listening to a whole album.

What changed after I listened to nothing but classical for thirty days.

Returning to an album I hadn't played in a decade.

When a band throws out the plan and plays what they feel like.