Diary of Musical Thoughts

This has been a horrible summer for me in terms of keeping up with music news and new releases. Traveling always takes me out of my usual r...

I would really hate for the Love Parade to be remembered as the backdrop of a stampede in Duisburg, although at the moment, it feels callous...

A couple of songs into the new Nachmystium album, I'd thought I'd stumbled onto a Kiss record with slightly more distorted vocals. ...

B12, "Electro-Soma" It's somewhat inexplicable (as in, I have no good explanation for this, no way to possibly excuse myself) ...

-- I saw performances by 51 acts, totaling approx 40-42 hours of music plus another four hours spread over three panels/Q&A sessions, fo...

Sunday's Piknic Electronik was moved indoors to Metropolis because of heavy rain. Which is really too bad, because who wants to party i...

If anyone needed convincing that MUTEK isn't a party for laptop geeks, then this was the day to see. My day at the festival started near...

Pimmon, CM von Hausswolff, Tim Hecker, and Ben Frost discuss "The Physicality of Sound". This was a fantastic panel discussion, o...

Q&A with Matmos , interviewed by Wire's Derek Walmsley. Funny guys! (yes, it goes without saying) A revealing and very personal Q...

Passersby stop to slip on some headphones and listen to The Mole spin an impromptu set during rush hour. I found out about this event whil...