It all started when our founding editor, Tina Roumeliotis, was just a kid with a stereo. She’d escape to her bedroom after a long day at school and put her records on (or cassettes/CDs…it was the 90’s/early 2000’s) to drown out the nonsense of her day. As she got older, Tina started to find the comfort she so desperately craved. Now she had a companion to lie on the floor with. With lyric booklet in hand, she allowed the music to tell her a story while searching for her own truth. Suddenly, she wasn’t so alone anymore and her love affair with music continued to grow. It has now flourished into a full blown nuptial that she never plans on abandoning.
While writing for multiple music sites for a few years, Tina decided it was time to take her relationship with music to the next level and start breeding something of her own – hence, the birth of The Daily Listening in 2015.
For music enthusiasts everywhere, our stories all start out similar. We’re captivated by a sound that is tailored to our emotional needs. Music holds a force we cannot contain and we’re often in awe of how it finds us at the most impeccable time. For us, music is not about the scene but about what is heard. It’s about the connection between the song and listener.
The Daily Listening is a no-nonsense music site dedicated to cultivating a community of music enthusiasts. We are here to open the doors of success for artists trying to break out of obscurity – unless of course, you like that sort of thing. 😉
Online media is a noisy place where opinions are often forced down our throats all for shock factor and page views. Over the years, music journalism has gained a reputation for being callous and pretentious. When seasoned musicians call journalists, “the devil,” there’s definitely an error in the system. We want to change all of that. It all starts with kindness and a desire to focus on the positive.
We will never compromise our integrity and our values for a page view. Though some of our content may be from a subjective point of view, we only seek to shine a light on the things that we cannot get enough of! If we don’t have anything nice or constructive to say, we won’t cover it. We have better things to do with our time than crap all over an artist’s work. 
Listen. Love. Share. Repeat.
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society, we can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it to a higher level.” – Bill Bernbach
What a beautiful set of words. Keep doing your thing guys – the World needs more hearts like yours!
Great story about the impact music had on you as you grew up. I find your story is similar to mine and I owe a lot to music, especially throughout my formative years.
Really great words ‘music is not about the scene but about what is heard. It’s about the connection between the song and listener’. Glad I found your site :).