WiderListen.ing Weekly — 23 October 2026
Track of the Week B21: "Darshan" by Jassi Sidhu — featuring Chaal, Tenor, Microtone Listen on YouTube New in the database this week The American President...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 16 October 2026
Chineke!: What Happens When You Build the Room Yourself Chi-chi Nwanoku is a double bassist, and by her own account she was often the only Black musician on...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 9 October 2026
Florence Price: Performed, Praised, Then Left on a Shelf 15 June 1933. The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, during the World’s Fair. The Chicago Symphony...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 2 October 2026
Sister Nancy: The Song Everyone Knows, The Artist Almost No One Paid Dancehall's greatest song of all time — that's Pitchfork's verdict on "Bam Bam." Not a...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 25 September 2026
John Bonham, 46 Years On — And the Question We Need to Ask September 25, 1980. John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's drummer, died. Forty-six years ago. The band...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 16 September 2026
This week's post There's a trap in mock exams. Give a Year 10 a full GCSE paper and they're going to fail most of it — they've only covered half the course....
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 9 September 2026
Music about Music Musicians keep writing songs about music and musicianship. Billy Joel wrote about a piano player. Stevie Wonder wrote about Duke Ellington....
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 4 September 2026
A Forgotten Six Weeks The night before a new term always feels like this. You've forgotten how to teach. You reach for a simple major chord and end up in a...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 31 August 2026
Why WiderListen.ing? For most of my time as a music teacher, I kept a spreadsheet of YouTube links or a Spotify playlist folder that, for whatever reason,...