Diary of Musical Thoughts

The Ugly: Robbie Williams, "Rudebox". In late 2003, there were some weird stories swirling around concerning Robbie Williams. I r...

Just a few things that made Wilson so great: 1. That batshit moment in neworderstory when he talks about Ian Curtis' death, and he stat...

The Bad III: Do Make Say Think, "You're a History In Rust". DMST picked a great point in their career to careen into a sidew...

It's been a while since I had one of those "awestruck by pop music" moments, but a couple of days ago my jaw dropped open when...

Articles like this don't appear nearly often enough. With catalog sales accounting for 40% of all physical music sales and 64% of down...

The Bad II: Apparat, "Walls" . I don't understand why more producers these days seem to be influenced by Orbital's poppier...

The Bad I: Ulrich Schnauss, "Goodbye". I used to hyperventilate while reading pre-release hype for the latest guitar-IDM-electr...

I'm oddly fascinated with the recent war of words between Avril Lavigne vs Chantal Kreviazuk . Part of me would love to see a reprise o...

The rumour mills have been swarming for months, and Simon Fuller's recent announcement has all but officially confirmed it. I am loving...

While slowly (and somewhat unenthusiastically) getting caught up with some of 2007's new releases, I've been putting a lot of listen...