I already pre-ordered the album. Why have I not bought tickets to the tour? It’s a mystery. And if anyone listens to the Flightless Bird podcast, Brosaleigh sang the theme song at the live SLC show.

Ok. That’s sorted. I feel better now.

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I need to get my ticket... except I don't think I will be in town for this. Everyone else? Get yer tickets now.

I have found that Transatlanticism by Death Cab is the perfect album to listen to when I am walking around a new city. It feels like a guidebook, a soundtrack, a path that leads me to where I need to be. And inevitably near the end of the album I find myself at some bar with a good vibe and local beers and it all works out.

This is a good question and I am interested in all the answers. I love listening in a number of places. I listen to music in my car. I listen while walking my dog in the morning and evening (though that switches between music and podcasts). I listen sometimes when cooking. In the summer I usually have music playing while relaxing in the back yard. I certainly have music playing when doing yard work and it is essential when I am on a long bike ride ; not sure I can make it through STP without tunes. One place I CANNOT listen to music anymore is when I am sitting at my desk working. I get caught up in the songs and either cannot get work done or keep skipping back to the start of a song because I lost track while concentrating on work. When I am doing more manual labor at a site out of town, I'll have it playing in headphones and that works well. I design and install AV / IT systems and when I am focusing on building a patch bay or installing amplifiers or whatever then it does help to listen to music. And when I am working in Europe I can hear all the KEXP DJs I miss when I am in the US (shout out DJ Abbie) and that is fun.

I do have a turntable in the living room and I can pump the vinyl all through the house and in the backyard. But I don't really sit back and focus on new music in a "listening room" kind of thing anymore. Certainly not as much as when I was younger. My wife is just not that interested in me sitting in the living room listening to an album. We always seem to be doing something that ranks higher in the general family rating system.