So, what are you listening to these days?

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Discovered this Polish counter-tenor via a version of Silent Night he sang (it's in the Christmas music thread). Counter-tenors are relatively rare compared to more common voices like tenors and sopranos, so all the more reason to treasure a good one.

 
I have noted a distinct change in my radio listening habits. Primarily, I pretty much no longer listen to radio over the air, but instead online streams. The reason is my Bose Soundstation smart speaker, whose default music app is TuneIn, an aggregator that pulls together streams from radio stations around the world as well as podcasts and a small selection of their own inhouse music streams. The other factor is work from home, since I often listened to radio in the car.

What this also means is that I do not listen to CBC much anymore. Instead, TuneIn has given me some new options.

First off, since CBC has seen fit to cut back their jazz programming in recent years, I have added two all-jazz stations to my presets: WGBH Boston, operated by that city's PBS affiliate, and JazzFM 91 which is the community-supported jazz station in the GTA.

Second, I have reacquainted myself with an old favorite, WNED-FM Buffalo. Again, it's PBS affiliate but this one is all classical. It was one of the go-to stations for Dad and I back in the eighties and nineties when you could get it over the air (sometimes, esp. when I was in Hamilton) and from Rogers Cable. And it has not changed much, really. Mostly classical music DJs during the week, but then various theme programs and programs from places like the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic on weekends. Thursday and Friday of this week will, of course, be all Christmas music, including two airings of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambridge and a performance of Messiah by the Buffalo Philharmonic.
 
I listen to TuneIn on my Micro Dot Alexis......but I still listen to the CBC on it too.
I enjoy listening to Jewel 92 TuneIn after 8 for the lounge music .....of course lately it's a lot of Christmas tunes.
I will have to check out your Jazz suggestions.
 
Waterfall said:
but I still listen to the CBC on it too.
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I have CBC Music (aka Radio 2) on a preset but find I don't listen to it much. It is still my go-to station in the car, but since I really only go out for shopping these days, I'm not even using the car radio much. Even the furthest Chinese grocery is maybe a fifteen minute drive so not much time to listen.
 
Hmm... things to think about.

I listen almost exclusively, on-line, to CBC Music, although it is also the preferred station in the car. There are definitely things I get fed up with, things I don't like, but I tend to gravitate to their playlists when I don't like what's on (I HATE almost all of Strombo's music, for instance, lol). What I like a lot is that it forces me to stay a bit current with popular music, which I would tend not to, to my detriment (I have about 20 years "missing" from my pop music memory due to some strange music choices/peculiarities around my marriage/relationships).
 
BetteTheRed said:
I HATE almost all of Strombo's music, for instance, lol
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Being as Strombo is a former City/Muchmusic guy, I was not surprised by the music and format of his show. Don't listen to it much, either, but that's mostly just that I don't usually have the radio on on Sunday evening.
 
Mendalla said:
I have CBC Music (aka Radio 2) on a preset but find I don't listen to it much. It is still my go-to station in the car, but since I really only go out for shopping these days, I'm not even using the car radio much. Even the furthest Chinese grocery is maybe a fifteen minute drive so not much time to listen.
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I mostly listen to CBC for the talk....like "the current", the 12 to1 call in talk show, etc....most mornings when I can......I tend to avoid things like the secret sex lives of slugs, or that sort of thing...
 
Waterfall said:
I mostly listen to CBC for the talk....like "the current", the 12 to1 call in talk show, etc....most mornings when I can.
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Yeah, you can't beat CBC 1 for news and talk. I have good intentions about listening to London Morning (now that we have our own morning show) but my mornings are often a bit chaotic as I scramble to get ready for 8:30 meetings and that sort of thing. I do follow CBC London and CBC News on Twitter since they are a good source for Canadian news.
 
Hmm... I think it's a family thing? My mother always listened exclusively to Radio 2 (music, in her day, largely classical). My godparents, possibly more intellectually rigorous, and certainly not "musically-inclined" in any fashion, were Radio 1 listeners.

I do not like "talking" as background. If I'm going to listen to someone talking, I want to be able to focus to some extent. I don't mind 'talk' while driving, but it works less well in other facets of my life. And of course, since I don't watch TV, any non-musical interruption happens only once an hour, and quite briefly.
 
Mendalla said:
Oh, to some degree.
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Or, totally. There have been more Saturday afternoons at the opera in my life than not... And I'm not even very knowledgeable about it, considering. It's just my musical choice on Saturday afternoons. And I guess, over the years, I've become familiar enough with most of them that I hum along with the more memorable, or favorite arias. I always cry listening to Electra.
 
I listen to CBC in the car, which used to be a fair bit of listening, and now like others, not so much. (or NPR when in the US).
Now, i find my CBC listening is when I am baking / cooking, as i have a radio in the kitchen . (again, lack of good internet puts me back into radio land when home)
 
Hot damn, First 2 Eleven covered a song that might even predate some of their parents and nailed it.

 
Double feature. Foxes & Fossils new track is a beauty, too, covering one that even predates the Fossils, let alone the Foxes.

 
Mendalla said:
Hot damn, First 2 Eleven covered a song that might even predate some of their parents and nailed it.

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Just for fun, here's another cover of "You can't always get what you want" by singer Violet Orlandi, who occasionally collaborates with First 2 Eleven. Much more low key take on the song.

 
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