Diary of Musical Thoughts

If you've been anywhere near a radio this summer, you're probably completely sick of hearing this song.  Either that or you can'...

Thoughts on a couple of recent articles: 1.  Maura Johnston summarized some of the reasons why sales of catalog music are outpacing those ...

... is a topic I wish I could write about here at length, but unfortunately I didn't go to any wild Bulgarian techno parties this year. ...

The fallout from a fairly benign blog post by an NPR intern has ballooned into the biggest music crit discussion topic of the week. The f...

I need to start reading Douglas Wolk's Missed Connections columns every week.  Stream of consciousness reviewing is so much more fun (a...

There was something missing in every review I'd read about this band. Nobody ever described them as a shoegaze Saint Etienne. All th...

"Exposing a mix's underbelly one stupid war at a time" - 87 minutes I was trying to make a fairly laid back (but not ambient...

My favourite album of the year so far, easily, is Spiritualized's "Sweet Heart Sweet Light". I used to struggle with this a ...

Plastikman 19-04-2010. In the '94 or '95 Xmas issue of Melody Maker, there a joint interview featuring Richie Hawtin, James Lavell...

I have no idea where to begin with this one.  Donna Summer ... dead?  Impossible. Music for me has simply never existed without Donna Su...