Diary of Musical Thoughts

This has to be the oddest review pairing I've ever done, but that's the sort of week it's been -- when I haven't been catchi...

Geva Alon claimed that he was a bit nervous having to open for Yo La Tengo, but you never would have known judging by his intense, determine...

I never watch the audition episodes. I took a two-week break from nearly all non-Olympics related TV. Catching up with episodes of House a...

I have to say that I was prepared to be disappointed by this. Their marathon set from a few years ago was ... well, there was a lot of good...

If I heard a set like Radio Slave's "Fabric 48" in a club, I'd probably be losing myself in it completely. It's deep,...

The vocals turn up about a minute into the gorgeous, shimmering intro of the first track, "Leaves Eclipse the Light" (an instantly...

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...