Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Snarky Puppy play NPR’s Tiny Desk! Such a great band and quite amazing they managed to fit them all in to the studio. Nice mini-lesson on polyrhythms at 8m 20s — Snarky Puppy: Tiny Desk Concert

2. Steve Lamacq interviews Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters. I find it very inspiring when such an accomplished musician is so humble about what they can and can't do. — Taylor Hawkins Drumming Masterclass

3. An excellent episode of the Pessimist Archive podcast on recorded music — Recorded Music

4. In an increasingly polarised world how do you tell truth from lies and fact from fiction? The University of Washington have an excellent video series (available for free online) that will help you do just that — Calling Bullsh*t

5. Spotify served up tracks from a couple of albums that I hadn't listened to in quite a while yesterday. I'd loosely describe them both as indie pop/rock. Both are well worth a listen — Premonitions by Miya Folick and Crawl Space by Tei Shi.

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A great interview with Taylor Hawkins on drumming, his musical heroes and his journey with the Foo Fighters.

Inspiring to see such an accomplished musician be so humble about what he can and can't do. Can you believe it... He still gets nervous playing live!

Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Very cool! — Dreamy Cave-Like Photos Taken Inside Musical Instruments

2. I could do with reminding myself of this more often: "Will today’s emergency even be remembered? Will that thing you’re particularly anxious about have been hardly worth the time you put into it? Better question: What could you do today that would matter a year from now?" — A Year From Now

3. This is definitely true for me. Podcast listening has completely overtaken music listening — Americans Are Listening to Music Less and Spoken Word Audio More, Study Finds

4. Amazing footage — The Starling and Falcon Dance

5. A Winged Victory For The Sullen have returned with a new album. Can't wait to see them play in 2020! — The Undivided Five

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You may have recently seen the 2019 Argos Christmas advert. It’s a fantastic advert — especially for all the drum tutors out there!

However, if you’re thinking about buying a drum kit this Christmas, skip Argos and speak to the wonderful folks at your local music shop or drum shop (if you’re lucky enough to have one).

I bought my first drum kit at Sound Attak in Colchester many, many years ago. They know their stuff and will be able to sell you a far superior drum set (that will last you far longer) than the one featured in the advert.

An additional shout out to Music World, West End Music and The Drumming Shop in Ipswich. All excellent local music shops.

Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. This was a really great conversation with music writer Ted Gioia on all things music. Tyler Cowen is an excellent interviewer — Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage

2. Think you know the best way to lower your personal CO2 footprint? You are probably wrong! — What reduces our personal CO2 footprint? We have no clue!

3. A hilarious Twitter thread of reimagined Bond film posters — Bond Film Anagrams

4. I highly recommend David Attenborough's new BBC series "Seven Worlds, One Planet". I've watched the episodes on Antartica and Asia, and both were unsurprisingly excellent. This Attenborough fella is pretty good at this TV and nature stuff! — Seven Worlds, One Planet

5. TeamTrees are trying to raise 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees across the planet. At the time of writing they've raised enough to plant 14,886,124 trees. If you fancy donating a tree or two, you can do so here — #TeamTrees

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Every Tuesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. The TV adaption of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is out now on the BBC. I've been looking forward to this for quite some time — His Dark Materials on iPlayer

2. More entertainment for your eyeballs, The Good Place on Netflix. We've blasted through the first three and a bit series, though we're now held up by the weekly release schedule... yawn! Why is that a thing again? — The Good Place

3. If you like stupid quizzes, this is for you. I scored 12/20 (with a number of dumb mistakes) and I'm well under 40... So yeah, it's a stupid quiz — Sorry, If You’re Under 40 There’s No Way You’ll Pass This Quiz

4. This piece has damped my enthusiasm for AirBnb. Why can't we have nice things? — I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

5. The final episode of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast was released yesterday. Yet another excellent podcast series from the BBC. Well worth a listen — The Missing Cryptoqueen

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