If you’re a music lover and you’re using the TuneIn Radio App you’re doing yourself a major injustice. Justin who runs the Aquarium Drunkard blog turned me on to this amazing app a few months ago. I can’t stop using it! Nowadays, it’s so easy to get any song by just about any artist on a variety of music overload services. I find it way more enjoyable to listen to a good DJ doing their thing. There’s the element of surprise, the curation, the human voice with the back-story of what you’ve heard and the overall discovery that used to be the thing I love about music. The way it used to be. Walking into a record store and hearing something playing you’d never heard before. Or, sifting through the staff pics to uncover that gem. I am old. What can I say?

TuneIn allows you to listen to 1000s of radio stations all over the world. It reminds me of sitting next to a shortwave with my dad listening to the BBC. You just select a region, find a country, find a city and see what’s on. Some of my favorites are: WWNO3 (Jazz from New Orleans), Folk Radio UK Frukie (beautiful new and old folk from the UK) and Seneweb Radio playing loads of new and old Afrobeat out of Senegal. The BEST thing about TuneIn is you can record programs right on the iPad. Aside from Instagram, it’s probably the App I use the most. Check it out.