Diary of Musical Thoughts

I had only planned to compile a top ten this year, but Matt from Cave 17 wrote and requested a top twenty for the website's end-of-year ...

OK, on with it: 10. Wold, "Stratification". This is as caustic and evil as music gets. I listen to it and always picture the lan...

Well, cancel the stuff I wrote in my last post -- there's nothing like end-of-year list shenanigans to get one's energies flowing i...

This is the first year, ever since I started faithfully following music when I was a little kid, that I didn't buy anything new. A predi...

Fennesz's music is simply so much better when he unleashes a full-out drone attack, as opposed to being cute and poppy with wistful melo...

Now here is an album that I completely missed out on at the time it was released, so stumbling across it in the bargain bin was quite the ...

One day last week, my clock radio went off at 8:30 AM, just as it does everyday, and I stayed in bed trying to catch more rest while letting...

1. Mike Barthel sums up the "TRL era" over on Idolator , and he gets it dead on the money. It's certainly true that "we...

It's been an interesting year for techno producers who have seemed to reappear out of nowhere (or after a few quiet/dormant years). Mor...

Box sets are a blessing and a curse -- they gather a large and hopefully definitive amount of material associated with a well-known artist, ...