Diary of Musical Thoughts

OK, "La Foret" didn't happen. It was a nice little experiment in improvisation, an attempt to make almost an entire album ful...

Hundreds of notable personalities are buried in Paris' Cimetièire Père Lachaise, but it's only at Jim Morrison's grave that you...

Bardo Pond's soundcheck/warmup becomes a spectacle in and of itself, building from gadget-checking tics and plucks into a cauldron of im...

Seeing a perfect show is a very rare thing, so rare that I'd have to think long and hard to remember the last one I saw. No, this Buzzc...

Rolling the dice on a NXNE gig featuring bands I've never heard of (save for a short recommendation in a newspaper) makes for some risky...

If we assume that all mixed albums are required to represent what is hot at a particular time (a contentious assumption to be sure, but I th...

Ten seconds into his audition, I knew I wanted to see Taylor Hicks in the top twenty four, and figured he was just enough of a unique fringe...

As Oren Ambarchi's adds layer after layer to his gentle bass tones, building them into a cavernous noise and then back to near silence a...

It's time to add Bardo Pond to the list of bands that made an unexpectedly great album in 2006. Yes, Bardo Pond, the same band that made...

I got what I wanted -- the Taylor/Kat finale -- but I found myself rooting for Elliott rather vociferously in the last few weeks. He was the...