Diary of Musical Thoughts

Flavourwire's Jillian Mapes compiled a list of the year's best music writing and there are plenty of gems there.  It's filled w...

This feud has been covered in detail by Jeff Chang .  The jist is that Banks is accusing Azalea of cultural appropriation (or "cultural...

I won't remember 2014 as a great year for new music, and in a few years time I doubt I'll rank any albums from this year among my al...

The year in music criticism has been packed full of 20th and 25th anniversary retrospectives and the pace should continue to be high for the...

I listened to fewer mixes this year than in the past couple of years, but the ones I did listen to were in heavy rotation from first listen/...

M. Matos has posted a very entertaining and rather unexpected interview with Mark Gage (Vapourspace) on Red Bull Music Academy.  The music ...

This year's entertainment was nearly identical to last year's -- no techno clubs, but there was salsa, a stack of new CD's from...

A Facebook thread of awe and ridicule in equal measured turned into the most fun I've had on memory lane in a while. Here is a playlis...

I was taken aback by the level of hostility toward Dan Brooks' recent article  in the NYT Magazine, entitled "Streaming Music Has L...

In 1990, Gez Varley and Mark Bell aka LFO released their eponymous debut single .  If they'd both retired from music after that, they...