Diary of Musical Thoughts

I didn't watch the show this year, save for The Black Keys' amazing performance of "Lonely Boy" via Popmatters  (all the l...

Grantland's Steven Hyden has been posting a series of articles that he calls "The Winners' History of Rock and Roll", whe...

Dragged a comb across my head, etc.  Packed a lunch, noticed I was late, grabbed a bus and a train, headed to the office, stopped at the ban...

There seems to be a lot less discussion about the results compared to past years, probably due to a number of slowly snowballing factors.  S...

"The mix uses a counterintuitive sequence of light pulses" Running time: 47:00 I submitted this mix for Little White Earbuds'...

I have no idea how many times I played this album in 1990, but either this or the Stone Roses' debut were the albums I listened to the ...

Like in  2011 , there was more of the usual podcast greatness in 2012.  Next year I'm resolving to hear a wider range of mixes that cris...

I've long since given up trying to regularly follow scenes, trends, or even labels.  It seems that every year I write about how my lis...

In XLR8R's " The Art of the Mix CD " feature, Derek Opperman wonders if the mix CD still means anything in the age of free mix...

The first Woob album, "Woob 1194" remains a masterpiece of ambient music and one of my ten favourite albums of the 1990's.  Af...