Diary of Musical Thoughts

No matter how much of a fan you think you are, there's always somebody out there who relates to the music more passionately than you, is...

It's been a rough couple of days for celebrity deaths (Tony Gwynn??  No...) and it's good to see that Kasem is getting the respect h...

There are plenty of impressive things about this documentary.  The celebrity roll call, which includes Sting, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger, an...

No radio alarms and Irish pubs this time, just great shopping and two incredible concerts. At a time when music shops are an endangered...

Two new albums from acts with inimitable styles, returning to their noisy, bludgeoning ways that they abandoned years ago.  The end results,...

"A Swedish mix marched within sight of Vienna", 78 minutes I've been wanted to record an ambient mix for quite a while ... n...

Twenty years ago,  used to drop $25-$30 on nearly every imported CD I bought.  Earlier this month, I paid about $30 for fifteen CD's.  ...

In the past couple of weeks, as the rockism vs poptimism debates heated up in print and on the internet, the National somehow became the pos...

This might be the definitive "for fans only" documentary -- essential for fans of Slint and "Spiderland", confusing and ...

Andre 3000 summed it up perfectly when their 90-minute set was abruptly cut off due to curfew -- this was "kind of weird".  Yes, h...