Travels in Music

Stories About Music From Around The World

B-side: An Update On the Future of Travels in Music

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Live from Chiang Mai, northern Thailand! Today’s episode features an update about the future of Travels in Music, my thoughts after recording twenty episodes, what it’s like producing a podcast, what I’ve learned, how I’m thinking about changing moving forward, and more. Above all: thank-you, so much, for listening so far. Bigger and better things to […]

Ep. 21: As Time Goes By: In Defense of Harry Nilsson’s “A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night”

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The past few years have been very good to fans of the late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. We got to see an excellent feature-length documentary on Nilsson’s life and work, the remastering of his entire discography with several discs of bonus material, along with the release of what will surely go down as the definitive Nilsson […]

Ep. 20: Escape Is At Hand: Joshua Kloke on Canada’s Favourite Rock Band, the Tragically Hip

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The Canadian rock n’ roll band The Tragically Hip occupy a special place in my country’s musical culture. Although the Hip have dedicated American and European fans, they have, for the most part, concentrated their efforts on building and sustaining their ravenous Canadian fanbase. Many of the band’s most loved songs address distinctly Canadian themes—hockey, […]

Ep. 19: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Bill Brewster on the Artistry and History of the Disc Jockey

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Even though the art of disc-jockeying is nearly one hundred years old, with modern DJs selling out stadiums and celebrated like rock stars the world over, there remain many misconceptions about DJs, and the art of djing. Perhaps the most egregious of these misconceptions is that djing is easy, and anyone with half a sense of […]

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