Diary of Musical Thoughts

This city is an architectural utopia, albeit an intimidating one with imperial splendor staring you in the face at virtually every street co...

"Control" contains countless little plusses but a small number of elephant-sized flaws. Overall, it more or less breaks even. The...

The build-up and anticipation for Tom Petty's performance was decidedly ... well, absent (I regularly forgot who was performing right up...

Last year's stopgap release for M83, the pleasant but inessential "Digital Shades Vol 1", reduced my expectations for the daft...

In case you haven't seen the results yet, here are the final tallies in the Idolator and Pazz and Jop polls. For anyone who had perus...

One problem with not living in a major music hub is that it's not so easy to go out and find music, rather, I have to wait for music to ...

While back in Canada for a short while, I've been taking the time to reunite with the music that I left behind, most of which I haven...

That might be overstating things a tad, but a bunch of people did follow me to a club in the middle of nowhere, only to be met with a larger...

There was no shortage of great music released in 2007, but it did seem like a weak year for memorable singles. It was the year of "Umb...

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2007 The list has been in the can for a week (since before December 15, naturally), it's this post that is embarrassing...