Diary of Musical Thoughts

I have patiently and repeatedly requested an Animal Collective album composed of nothing but two-minute pop songs plus a couple of twelve-mi...

A couple of weeks ago, one of my longest ever music-related searches finally came to a close. Tracking down the precursor compilation to on...

Five Good Things: 1. Contortionists handing over the award envelopes. Freak damn. 2. The setup. It's a bit redundant to comment ...

Villalobos has been routinely pumping out ten-minute tracks and remixes right from the beginning of his career, so it was only a matter of t...

I recently started reading up on the issue of compression in modern audio recordings/remasterings. Now that my mind is on the subject, it...

Songs from this album have been cycling through my iPod, rubbing shoulders with songs by famous actress (and occasional singer) Charlotte...

I formed an opinion on this record (more or less) over a month ago, but decided to wait until I heard the actual music before writing someth...

Philip Sherburne's latest "Month In Techno" column for Pitchfork is more of his typical brilliance -- new trends and contextu...

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 ...