Diary of Musical Thoughts

In Season Four, Carrie Underwood was the clear favourite from the top 11 onward, so your mileage for that season likely depends on how wheth...

I get the feeling that a lot of people are still waiting for Caribou to step out from under the shadow of his breakthrough album "Up In...

I found these four gigs on the always excellent Shoegazer Alive blog (no direct link because they've already been shut down and had to c...

Finally, a "Best Albums of the Past N Years" list that doesn't have a mind-numbingly obvious (yet not completely unjustifiabl...

It definitely isn't easy to reform a band after fifteen years and to follow up with the release of a new album. Fans still adore the cl...

A new BSS album almost feels like gravy on their career. They've got nothing left to prove as a unit, and they can all fall back on thei...

It's been a month since I rattled off these first impressions of the finalists. Having now seen them perform a few times each, I feel ...

This was a fantastic party, actually miles better than I was expecting, thanks to killer dubstep and techno sets by the support DJ's and...

Writing in Nature , Daniel Levitin presents an excellent review of Philip Ball's newest book, "The Music Instinct: How Music Works...

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...