Diary of Musical Thoughts

The Warlocks did it , and now it's Animal Collective's turn to make the Great Album That I Didn't Think They Had In Them. In th...

This scarily underattended show brought back memories of a Bardo Pond show at the same venue three years ago. The gig was scary good and th...

Eight years ago, they delivered a great album when you might have least expected it. It would have been easy to forgive, though. A band is...

The mini-controversy over the Honda ad featuring MIA's "Galang" is a a great example of what I called a "trivial" is...

Well, that's not actually true. However, I find myself writing almost exclusively about bands, and not about, shall we say, "issues...

There's a gas leak in the building. Oh wait, it's Awesome in their stage outfits, with soft glowing white lights where their faces ...

OK, they like discopunk. They sound not one iota different from the last time I saw them over a year ago, and until controller.controller w...

I could try describing Yellow Swans' blast of ever-growing quaking noise (with bonus screaming), but on occasions such as these, it'...

Note: I'm very late with this ... I wrote a bunch of stuff during the live broadcast, but didn't get the chance to go back and look ...

Sigur Ros, "Takk". After the sleepy (= a bit boring) shoegaze of their debut and the so-called "boring" (= entrancing) ...