Diary of Musical Thoughts

Exclusive! Live! Performance!! Their new single, tonight, on the Miss World 2006 telecast! In fact, they got to perform two songs, meanin...

The iPod era is just the latest chapter in my never-ending fascination with random play. Lately, I haven't even been queuing up entire ...

Tim Hecker likes to stick to a formula. Sometimes that's shorthand for "stuck in a rut" but this particular rut (whoops, I...

It had been a while since I'd heard REM's "Automatic For the People", but three songs into the album I could effortlessly ...

Somehow I managed to not listen to this album for about six weeks, probably since my last plane ride. It is far and away the best Flowchart...

Admittedly, I haven't watched all (or most) of the episodes, I don't fully understand the show's format, and I understand virtua...

The intimate, basement space in this eerily quiet neighbourhood (which reminds me of T.O.'s Kensington Market once the sun sets) is actu...

"The Fragile" didn't come close to meeting expectations, but the tour was a hit and so was the eventual DVD. Nobody bothered ...

Sometimes the brilliance of certain songs doesn't hit for you months, or even years. Everybody is familiar with this concept, right? Her...

Her 1993 album "Happiness" starts with more than a minute of shredding, echoing guitar noise that could have been lifted straight ...