Diary of Musical Thoughts

After writing this , I found myself revisiting the music of the Smiths. I used to go through Smiths phases every couple of years, one of th...

I haven't been hearing much new music lately, but have been sufficiently busy and entertaining by cycling through the careers of PJ Harv...

And what a week it was ... at the conclusion of Hollywood week, it looked like the boys were set to be the class of the show, just like the ...

There are two kinds of music fans -- people who treat their favourite bands like their favourite sports teams, and those that don't*. B...

The Police are engaging on a world tour beginning later this spring, and used their prime performance spot on the Grammys to unofficially an...

The praise keeps rolling in for Prince's performance, and although I can see where these accolades are coming from (Prince certainly kil...

My mom watches the audition episodes religiously, mainly to laugh her ass off at the putzes that audition despite lacking any semblance of t...

First of all, it's a crap title (Meatloaf's "sex and drums and rock n roll" line, anyone?). Second, it seems we have anoth...

The contents of my ballot were never in doubt (exactly as they appeared in last week's posts), but there was still the matter of assigni...