Diary of Musical Thoughts

New Order have released three albums in the past twenty years ("Lost Sirens" doesn't count).  Since breaking up for all inten...

U2 have become a very small subplot in the follow up to the attacks in Paris.  They are nearing the end of their tour and their Paris conce...

It was only after getting caught up in the sandstorm of publicity surrounding the release of "Hello" that I learned that "21...

Long flights are a great chance for catching up on recent movies -- especially music-related ones! This short commentary about the DVD...

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...