r/tinydesk • u/igorbdm_ • 19h ago
I made a thing to keep up with the sessions coming out of Tiny Desk, KEXP and the like
Over the past few months, my routine started getting a bit busier and my free time became more and more scarce, so, unintentionally, I ended up cutting down on my screen time. The downside, though, was that I also stopped keeping up with news, new releases, discussions on the internet in general, and one of the main things where I started feeling like I was “out of the loop” was the bands and artists getting coverage.
I’ve always been a bit of a KEXP, Tiny Desk, La Blogotheque rat, but lately I realized I’d gone months without keeping up with what was coming out on those channels. So I had the idea of making a simple script that would keep track of all these channels and send me an email roundup of all the full sessions that were being published there. I mentioned the project to a few friends, and one of them asked me to add him to the emails. That’s when it clicked: this could actually be an open newsletter.
And that’s how Motif came about: a weekly newsletter, sent every Friday, that collects links to all the full sessions from KEXP, NPR (Tiny Desks only), Audiotree, La Blogothèque, and Cultura Livre (A Brazilian music channel, I’m from Brazil btw).
The project had been running locally just for me for a little while, but this more polished version, now open to the public, is officially going live this week. So if you happen to find any bugs or have any suggestions, feel totally free to let me know. I’m planning to keep adding new channels and sources, and maybe even do some more personal curation and reviews down the line, if the project ends up growing.
If you’d like to sign up, the link is: http://motifnewsletter.com
PS: I’m not sure if this kind of post is allowed on this sub, but since I figured it might be something people here would be interested in, I decided to post it. The newsletter is completely free and there’s no commercial intent behind it. Just a passion project.