"Music Channel to Paint By?" Topic

SiriusXM is now offering Calm…

Brought to you by the creators of the Calm app, the new Calm Channel delivers a blend of soothing soundscapes and meditative music to help quiet your mind and melt away stress. Tune in anytime you're looking for clarity, focus, rest, or a simple escape from the everyday.

Thanks. YouTube has a lot of relaxing, calming music too.

I listen to YouTube videos, sometimes what my troops want, Russians get 1812 overture, Prussians get march music, but when my choice its modern progressive music.
Monsters and Men – Wars
youtu.be/10cyoQjBlNQ

I like to listen to the likes of Sepultura, Pantera, Megadeth and Metallica when I paint…

Sirius XM 712 Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Channel

Nice!
I go back and forth between sirius Real Jazz and Symphony…
It'll be nice to add another station

Recently learned I(heart)Radio plays KBCO Studio C, with no commercials. That's my zone.

Isn't that why they have the yacht rock channel on XM?

I work better with either no background music or proper levels of loud stuff… here in the UK that comes from Planet Rock

Now 70s is my UK choice!

Ramones!

Also Blondie, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello (early stuff), Warren Zevon.

Why yes, I was in my 20s in the 1980s.

My wife and I have an agreement while we're sheltering in place together. She doesn't put on Bach and I don't put on The Rolling Stones.

When I'm painting horror themed minis or terrain, it's either Midnight Syndicate or Nox Arcana. Otherwise, it's either classical or U2.

For music, I go to theclassicalstationDOTorg (just like
that except a . rather than DOT)

24/7, 365 no commercials and a live host all the
time.

I generally listen to ACCURADIO on my desktop. A huge selection of music and no commercials.

I don't need no stinking channel! I have a CD player. Fife and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg for the 18th Century, Williams and Goldsmith for SF and for Civil War and WWII, I'm spoilt for choice. Hoping to get to 5mm Ancients this summer, so I'll be fetching out Miklos Rozsa.

Thanks Doctor X, I'll be checking that out!

I watch cricket on the telly whilst I'm painting. Test cricket is good because you can have hours of play without anything interesting happening.

When I'm not listening to podcasts or stories. I listened to Planet Rock.

24-7 Niche Radio – The '70s

I generally listen to almost any music, usually from my own collection that I have ripped. Lately though I have listened to painting and gaming podcasts.

I mainly listen to Scala Radio (a UK DAB classical music channel). It always used to be BBC Radio 4, but the quality of the comedy programmes declined and the news and current affairs programmes became increasingly depressing, so I got a DAB radio for the studio.

Prefer radio drama – BBC Radio iPlayer – anyone for four and a half hours of Sherlock Holmes, 90 mins of Morse, perhaps 220 minutes of Grossman's War – Stalingrad in two episodes. Lots of Sci-fi stuff is available, including three episodes of Torchwood and both War of the Worlds books.

There's loads on that channel to check out, comedy to documentaries, to popular science programmes – check The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince.

If the classics are your thing there is usually a few pieces by Tolstoy, Dickens, R.L. Stevenson, Austen or Bronte; for the hard core there is even a full version of Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan on there.

The BBC has been doing audio books for donkey's years using well known actors, including some A listers – Benedict Cumberbatch and Kenneth Brannagh did loads of stuff for BBC Radio, as did many others.

folkalley DOT com.
Lots of roots and folk music, plenty of it international. Especially good for doing ACW!
NPR, especially 'tiny desk concerts'.