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Here’s an end-of-year list of my favorite movies, TV shows, books and games from 2011. I’ve added links to Spotify where soundtracks are available. Happy New Year!   My Favorite Movies of 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Attack the Blocks Source Code Drive Midnight In Paris Hanna The Adjustment Bureau Limitless X-Men: First Class Trollhunter   My Favorite TV Shows of 2011 Game of Thrones Breaking Bad Justified Spartacus: [...]

We both heard the same beat in the beginning, but where did you go from there? Perhaps you discovered one or two favorite styles then settled back to explore similar bands. Some of my friends have stayed  hovering around one genre since the day I met them, never venturing out to try something different or perhaps checking out a track or two but then scurrying back to the familiarity of the soundtrack of their youth. I’m a bit [...]

Welcome to the Pansentient League – a blog about Spotify! Thanks for stopping by: we hope you enjoy the site. Here you’ll find Spotify features, news and reviews, interviews, hints and tips… everything you need to help you get the most out of Spotify.   I’m Jer and I’ve been blogging about Spotify since early 2009. It all started with my Spotify-Powered CD Collection – I’d taken some photos [...]

This blog has grown quite a bit over the past couple of years, so I decided it was finally time to make a few changes and refresh the design. Pansentient League v4.0 is now skinned with a new WordPress theme called Freshlife from Theme Junkie. I liked the clean, fresh look of this theme and there are a heap of new under-the-hood features to hopefully make the blog more engaging and easier to navigate. Here’s a quick tour of what’s [...]

This blog’s comment system has been taking a bit of a hammering of late, so I’ve installed DISQUS to hopefully make things a bit easier. The comments are now at the end of each post rather than down the side, giving them much more room and improving the readability of some of the excellent longer comments posted recently (Tom Aspinall’s comment here is a stream-of-conciousness classic!). If you have a spare moment, please [...]

We are pleased to announce a completely new New On Spotify page, hosted here on The Pansentient League! The New On Spotify page lists new-release albums and singles added to Spotify over the last 7 days, all contained in an easy-to-search database. To use, select your country then search for a genre or artist, or simply browse using the Next Page button. Give it a go, or read on for more details.

The Pansentient League’s Spotify Resources Page now lists all known Spotify-related websites, apps, tools and plug-ins: that’s 165 resources and counting! The list is now fully searchable and sortable: enter a search term for an instant update (for example, enter “spanish” to list all sites in Spanish, or “playlist” to list all playlist sharing sites). Click a heading to sort by date, category etc. or [...]

Last month, I asked about 60 bands and music folk I admire to send me a list of their Top 10 favourite songs, with a few words to say why that song was especially important to them. I said it was for a feature I had planned for my Spotify-injected music blog. Twenty-four of those musical maestros sent in their lists with commentary that was at turns enlightening, amusing, heart-warming, and above all inspiring. It really has been a pleasure [...]

Starting this weekend and running throughout August, The Pansentient League will be hosting a very special feature, with contributions from a whole galaxy of stars. Listening to all the great bands that are making music today I often wonder which artists had inspired them: which songs do they cherish, which songs are special to them and made them want to be musicians, which songs did they think were the best-in-genre. So I thought I’d [...]

The Pansentient League is a blog that’s mostly about music-streaming service Spotify, but I also mix in features on Google Android (my smartphone OS of choice), Apple iPhone (Spotify’s smartphone of choice ) and my favourite music genres (synthpop, electro, industrial and psytrance). This might seem a bit schizophrenic, but the overall theme of music and technology hopefully ties all this together: there’s nothing [...]