Diary of Musical Thoughts

For me there has always been something sterile about NPR that I could never quite put my finger on.  It's one thing when a "public...

Who saw this coming? Many people have commented on the remarks by Fred Santarpia, Conde Nast's Chief Digital Officer, who noted that t...

This is not a new story , but it's a welcome one.  Many VU-related articles contained contradictory information about Morrison's pos...

Just when you thought that every kind of list had been done to death, along comes someone with a relatively untapped idea  for a new one.  T...

"He endangered the safety of the mix and the ambassador held no authority to forgive him", 58 minutes Once in a while I play aro...

The first season was something of a work in progress while they tried to figure out how to distinguish themselves from the glut of other mus...

I'm not sure why these types of articles bother me, but they do. I like Omar Souleyman, but that's not the point of this post. Thi...

I haven't seen "Straight Outta Compton" yet, but there have been plenty of good articles about the film so far, and a fair num...

"This hot streak has suddenly turned the MVP race into a two way mix", 74 minutes Yet another mix for baking in the summer heat...

In all seriousness, I've been waiting for someone to write this article for about fifteen years.  I had assumed that the trend had its ...