Diary of Musical Thoughts

I was going to bitch and moan about Pitchforkmedia's Top Albums of the 1990's Redux (specifically, about the switching of MBV and Ra...

HOLIDAY MUSIC BUYERS GUIDE -- CANADIAN EDITION. Here's a quick and dirty rundown of notable music releases from 2003. Any of them would ...

A SAD STORY INVOLVING THE COCTEAU TWINS AND FOUR PLANE RIDES. On the flight from Paris to Berlin, I made a decision. No wait, let's b...

Add No Doubt's "It's My Life" to the list of horrendous cover versions of our time. The first offense committed with this ...

MTV Europe Music Awards!!!! 21:01. Here we go! A warning label re: foul language?!? Bring it on!! 21:03. A huge choir, clad totally in...

I am hyped for these MTVEMA's. So hyped that I watched a show that compiled notable performances from MTVEMA's of years past: Mad...

I love MTV Germany. My new favourite hobby is watching the MTVG shows with subtitles and seeing how they translate the English slang into Ge...

I spent Saturday night in Kreuzberg, which is the "alternative" area of Berlin, or the approximate equivalent of Queen Street in T...

Berlin Part Deux: your Halloween scary moments of the year are the excerpts from a recent Suede concert that I watched on MTV Germany (which...

I saw Spiritualized for the eighth time last week. Makes me think about the first times I saw a band once, twice, three times .... ONE. F...