Diary of Musical Thoughts

This is an excerpt from the release notes to "Berghain vol. 4": "Literally, Ben Klock's debut mixed CD is a cornucopia of...

Sometimes you press play and you know within seconds that you're listening to a great album. That couldn't have been more true the...

Sometimes, you time things just right. It certainly didn't seem that way at first. After having flown in from abroad the previous day, ...

This concert was streamed live on Youtube earlier this evening. Is it an exaggeration to say that the size of the potential viewing audienc...

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...