Diary of Musical Thoughts

Track-by-track, with my iPod on the commute to and from work, I made my way through Resident Advisor's Top 100 tracks of the 00's (n...

In a bit of a shocker, Google went on a deletion spree and erased a number of mp3 blogs without warning last week. Last week I tried to con...

These lists are great -- there's an embarrassment of riches here. So much I haven't heard, so much I really need to hear ... RA...

The 10th anniversary of this blog was on January 18, and what better way to celebrate and commemorate that it than by presenting my thirty f...

So far, there's been plenty of shock and horror over this year's P&J results . The top of both the singles and albums list are ...

They said it would never happen (OK, I said it would never happen). I thought that nobody cared, but at least one person does -- the perso...

My "top tracks" ballot for P&J looked like this: Portishead, "Chase the Tear" Lady Gaga, "Paparazzi" Lady ...

Techno, dub, and DnB DJ's on the bill. The schizophrenic Modeselektor as headliners. The last minute change of venue for an event that...

Tel Aviv has a small but active club scene. Major pop acts like Madonna and Paul McCartney might get all the press and all the namedrops wh...

Consider two bands, A and B. Both bands release new albums at around the same time (usually this is the case, but not always, sometimes thi...