Diary of Musical Thoughts

Tom Ewing's essay for Pitchfork is one of the best pieces of criticism that site has ever published. Unlike most "review"-st...

This one-hour special, containing near-complete clips of PSB TV performances interspersed with contemporary comments by the duo, is easily t...

I always struggled to define my relationship with Blur. I searched for definitions, and they were the band I liked the most without ever re...

I don't even know where to begin with this one, and judging from the writing I've seen over the past two days, it doesn't look a...

With the last two days, plus Michael Jackson's death last month, the 80's as a whole are all but dead as well. John Hughes was the T...

As anyone who regularly reads this site would know, I'm not the sort of person who callously nitpicks reviews and reviewers, but: 1. Fu...

This is another new release that simply isn't resonating with me ... I love the idea of three techno mavens picking up guitars and exoti...

Yeah, yeah, Berlin is changing all the time, but the biggest changes these days aren't with the buildings, but with the people. The cit...

1. Samael, Sepultura, Kreator, and Lordi all played in Sofia this year. Within a few weeks of each other. In wintertime, of course (did y...

I'm typing this in Nessebar, Bulgaria, participating in a bubble of science that exists within its own bubble in this beautiful little v...